Cervical Flashcards
Forms a thin layer enclose the platysma
Superficial fascia
Supports the muscles, vessels, and vecera of the neck
Deep fascia
Think layer that encircles the neck
Investing layer
Thin layer that attached above the laryngeal cartilage
Pretracheal layer
Think layer posses like a septum
Prevertebral layer
Local condensation of the prevertebral, pretracheal, investing layers of the deep fascia
Carotid sheath
Carries the weight of the upper part of the body
Body
Space that serves as the passageway for the spinal cord
Vertebral foramen
Located lateral in the vertebral body and passageway of artery and viens.
Transverse Foramen
Formed by inferior and superior vertebral notch of the adjacent vertebrae
Invertebral foraman
Has no spinous process and body
Atlas(C1)
SUPERIOR articulation the occipital condyle of the skull, and the joint know as:
Atlantooccipital joint
INFERIOR articulation with the axis(C2) and the joint called:
Atlantoaxial joint
Odontoid process is the most distinctive feature
Axis(C2)
2 arterial tracts that supply blood to head and neck
Carotid system
Subclavian system