back flash cards 8.27.13

Question 1

hyoid bone

Answer 1

bone inferior to jaw anterior to spine

Question 2

vertebral body

Answer 2

round part projecting anteriorly

Question 3

vertebral arch (neural arch)

Answer 3

boney part of vertabrae projecting anteriorl

Question 4

vertebral foramen

Answer 4

“hole down the middle”

Question 5

vertebral canal

Answer 5

tube produced by connecting vertabrae where vertebral foramen line up

Question 6

synovial joint

Answer 6

type of joint in spine at articulate process

Question 7

symphyses

Answer 7

fibrous joints formed by vertebral bodies

Question 8

intervertebral fibrocartilaginous discs

Answer 8

join bodies of vertabrae together - shrink as we age

Question 9

what holds together dsks?

Answer 9

powerful longitudinal ligaments

Question 10

pedicle

Answer 10

foot like process that bridges vertebral body and vertebral arch

Question 11

transverse process process

Answer 11

bilateral boney “plates” use to connect bone or muscle

Question 12

lamina

Answer 12

flatened plate between leading to spinous process

Question 13

spinous process

Answer 13

posterior projection

Question 14

ligaments that attach to spinous process:

Answer 14

suprspinous and interspinous

Question 15

articular process

Answer 15

joints on spine 2 superior and two inferior

Question 16

vertebral notches

Answer 16

superior faces up inferior faces donw. Notches in properly aligned colum

Question 17

atlas

Answer 17

1st cervical vertabrae articlate with skull

Question 18

Axis

Answer 18

2nd cervical vertabrae. The 1st vertabrae pivots on this.

Question 19

vertebra prominens

Answer 19

c7 - first palpable vertabrae

Question 20

thoracic vertabrae

Answer 20

12 - form joints with ribs

Question 21

sacral

Answer 21

5 vertabrae fused together to form sacrum

Question 22

sacroiliac joints

Answer 22

sacrum articulates with two coxal bones to form pelvis here

Question 23

coccygeal

Answer 23

tailbone - fused, vestigial part of human tail

Question 24

primary curvature

Answer 24

name for entire, flexed vertabral colim during fetal development (concave anteriorly

Question 25

secondary curvature

Answer 25

name for curve in cervical region as infants use neck muscles to support head and in lumbar region as child begins to wlk

Question 26

foramen transversarium

Answer 26

only on cervical -verticle holes in transverse process for blood vessels

Question 27

demifacets

Answer 27

on body of thoracic spine for attachment of ribs

Question 28

heart shaped vertebral body is where?

Answer 28

shape of thoracic vertebral body

Question 29

kidney been shaped body is where?

Answer 29

shape of lumbar vertebral body

Question 30

which spines are blunt?

Answer 30

shape of lumbar spines

Question 31

nucleus pulposus

Answer 31

center of intervertebral disks = mucopolysacharides

Question 32

annulus fibrosus

Answer 32

outer rim of intervertebral discs = fibrocartilage

Question 33

rupture of disc?

Answer 33

nucleus pulposus pass outward posterolaterally or posterially and puts pressure on anerve

Question 34

vertebral artery

Answer 34

runs through foramen transversarium on cervical region

Question 35

facets in horizontal plane where?

Answer 35

cervical region facet planes

Question 36

facets in coronal plane where?

Answer 36

thoracic region facet planes

Question 37

facets in coronal plane where?

Answer 37

lumbar region facet plans

Question 38

ventral sacral foramen

Answer 38

holes in sacrum

Question 39

dorsal sacral foramen

Answer 39

holes in sacrum

Question 40

sacral hiatus

Answer 40

upside down u shape on dorsal side of sacrum

Question 41

sacral cornua

Answer 41

points on end of sacrum

Question 42

anterior longitudinal ligament

Answer 42

runs anterior of vertebral bodies

Question 43

posterior longitudinal ligament

Answer 43

runs posterior along vertebral bodies

Question 44

anterior and posterior tubercle

Answer 44

notches on atlas

Question 45

ligmentum flavum

Answer 45

tendon from lamina to lamina

Question 46

supraspinous ligament

Answer 46

posterior to spinous process

Question 47

inerspinous ligament

Answer 47

between spinous process

Question 48

dens

Answer 48

to of axis

Question 49

transverse ligament

Answer 49

holds dens in place

Question 50

tectorial membrane

Answer 50

name for top of posterior longitudinal ligament

Question 51

ligamente nuche

Answer 51

name of top of suprspinous ligament

Question 52

cranial nerve 11

Answer 52

intervates trapezious

Question 53

serratus posterior superior and inferior

Answer 53

pull ribs up and down (superior is deep from rhomboid muschle make a diamond - spine to rib - accesory resperatory muscles

Question 54

muscles that run longitudinally along spinus process?

Answer 54

erector spinae: ILS starting laateral moving medial - iiocostalis longissimus spinalis

Question 55

thorocolumbar fascia

Answer 55

around erector spinae ILS muscle

Question 56

transverospinalis

Answer 56

3rd layer of muscles that span anywhere from 1 to 7 vertebrae

Question 57

semispinalis

Answer 57

cross 5-7 IV joints - not in lumbar

Question 58

multifidus

Answer 58

cros3-5 IV joints

Question 59

rotatores

Answer 59

cross 1 or 2 IV joints