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Question 1

How many vertebrae bones are there?

Answer 1

33

Question 2

How does the size of the vertebrae vary from cranial to lumbar?

Answer 2

Increases from superior to inferior

Question 3

What are the functions of the vertebral column?

Answer 3

Weight bearing
Protection
Movement
Site of muscle attachment

Question 4

Where is weight transmitted in the vertebral column?

Answer 4

Carries and transmits weight from upper body to lower limbs

Question 5

What do the intervertebral discs and curvatures provide?

Answer 5

Shock absorption

Question 6

Where are the lordoses curves?

Answer 6

Cervical

Lumbar

Question 7

Where are the kyphoses curves?

Answer 7

Thoracic

Sacral

Question 8

How many curvatures are in the adult spine?

Answer 8

4

Question 9

How many curvatures are in a childs spine?

Answer 9

2

Question 10

How many curvatures are in a fetus’s spine?

Answer 10

1

Question 11

What is scoliosis?

Answer 11

Abnormal curvatures from the posterior view

Question 12

Where is scoliosis present?

Answer 12

In young people - teenagers

Question 13

What are the pointy bits at the side of a vertebra?

Answer 13

Transverse process

Question 14

What are the pointy bits at the back of the vertebrae called?

Answer 14

Spinous processes

Question 15

What is the most anterior part of the vertebrae called?

Answer 15

Pedicle

Question 16

What is the biggest part of the vertebrae called?

Answer 16

The vertebral body

Question 17

What are the 2 parts of the intervertebral disc?

Answer 17

Nucleus pulposus

Annulus Fibrosus

Question 18

What kind of joint are the intervertebral discs?

Answer 18

Secondary cartilaginous

Question 19

When does a slipped dis cause pain?

Answer 19

When the Nucleus pulposus is compressing on a nerve root

Question 20

What does the vertebral column protect?

Answer 20

The spinal cord
Spinal nerves
Arteries and Veins

Question 21

What are the 3 meninges of the spinal cord?

Answer 21

Dura matter
Arachnoid matter
Pia Matter

Question 22

What fluid is found in the spine?

Answer 22

CSF

Cerebrospinal fluid

Question 23

What is inflammation of the meninges called?

Answer 23

Meningitis

Question 24

What movements can the lumbar regions do?

Answer 24

Extension

Flexion

Question 25

What movements can the thoracic regions do?

Answer 25

Lateral flexion Lateral extension Slight rotation

Question 26

What movements the can cranial regions do?

Answer 26

``` Rotation Lateral flexion Lateral extension Extension Flexion ```

Question 27

What joint are the facet joints?

Answer 27

Synovial plane

Question 28

What joints do the vertebrae form with the ribs?

Answer 28

Synovial plane

Question 29

What joint do the axis and atlas form?

Answer 29

Synovial pivot

Question 30

What joint do the skull and atlas form?

Answer 30

Synovial ellipsoid

Question 31

What is the ligament between the spinous processes?

Answer 31

Interspinous ligament

Question 32

What is the ligament at the tip of the spinous processes?

Answer 32

Supraspinous ligament

Question 33

What is the ligament at the front of the vertebral bodies?

Answer 33

Anterior longitudinal ligament

Question 34

What is the ligament at the back of the vertebral bodies?

Answer 34

Posterior longitudinal ligament

Question 35

Where do intrinsic back muscles act on?

Answer 35

Only the back - not the limbs

Question 36

Where do extrinsic back muscles act on?

Answer 36

The back and the limbs

Question 37

What is the major muscle of the back?

Answer 37

The erector spinae

Question 38

How can you identify the vertebrae from the 5 different regions of the body?

Answer 38

Just by looking at them

Question 39

What shape is the vertebral foramen in cervical?

Answer 39

Triangular

Question 40

What is the shape of the vertebral foramen in thoracic?

Answer 40

Heart

Question 41

What is the shape of the vertebral body in lumbar?

Answer 41

Kidney shaped

Question 42

In what plane do the articular facets face in cervical?§

Answer 42

Transverse

Question 43

In what plane do the articular facets face in thoracic?

Answer 43

Coronal plane

Question 44

In what plane do the articular facets lie in lumbar?

Answer 44

Sagittal

Question 45

What is the main muscle of the back?

Answer 45

Erector spinae

Question 46

What level is the vertebral prominens?

Answer 46

C7

Question 47

What level is the spine of the scapula?

Answer 47

T3

Question 48

What level is the inferior angle of the scapula?

Answer 48

T7

Question 49

What level is the summit of the iliac crest

Answer 49

L4

Question 50

What normal functions increasse intra-abdominal pressure?

Answer 50

Sneezing Coughing Burping

Question 51

What type of joint is at the articular facets?

Answer 51

Synovial plane

Question 52

What type of joint is between vertebral bodies?

Answer 52

Secondary cartilage

Question 53

How many cervical vertebral bodies are there?

Answer 53

7

Question 54

How many thoracic vertebral are there?

Answer 54

12

Question 55

What is the C1 vertebral?

Answer 55

Atlas

Question 56

What is the C2 vertebral?

Answer 56

Axis

Question 57

What part of the vertebrae articulate to form the secondary joint?

Answer 57

Body

Question 58

What part of the vertebrae articulate to form the synovial plane?

Answer 58

Articular facets

Question 59

What are the 3 muscles of the back we have to know?

Answer 59

Trapezium Latissimus Dorsal Erector spinae

Question 60

In a lumbar puncture why is the patient usually requested to flex their lumbar spine?

Answer 60

To increase space between vertebrae

Question 61

What is the sticky up bit on C2 vertebrae called?

Answer 61

Odontoid process