Cervical Region: C3-C6

Question 1

What are the modifications of the superior epiphyseal rim of a typical cervical?

Answer 1

Anterior groove, posterior groove, right and left uncinate processes

Question 2

What are the modifications of the inferior epiphyseal rim of a typical cervical?

Answer 2

Anterior lip, posterior lip, left and right lateral grooves

Question 3

What attaches to posterolateral margin and in the center of a typical cervical vertebral body?

Answer 3

The pedicle

Question 4

What surface feature is located at the upper margin of the pedicle?

Answer 4

Superior vertebral notch

Question 5

What surface feature is located at the lower margin of the pedicle?

Answer 5

Inferior vertebral notch

Question 6

What bony feature is attached to the posterior end of the pedicle?

Answer 6

The articular pillar

Question 7

What is located at the top of the articular pillar?

Answer 7

The superior articular process

Question 8

The superior articular process will provide support for what bone feature?

Answer 8

The superior articular facet

Question 9

What is located at the bottom of the articular pillar?

Answer 9

The inferior articular process

Question 10

The inferior articular process will provide support for what bone feature?

Answer 10

The inferior articular facet

Question 11

What is the name of the surface feature observed between the ends of the articular pillar?

Answer 11

The groove/sulcus for the dorsal ramus of a cervical spinal nerve

Question 12

What bone feature is attached to he posterior part of the articular pillar?

Answer 12

The lamina

Question 13

What ligament attaches to the lamina of a typical cervical?

Answer 13

The ligamentum flavum

Question 14

Ossification of the ligamentum flavum at the attachment site on the lamina will result in what feature

Answer 14

Para-articular processes

Question 15

To what parts of the typical cervical vertebra is the transverse process attached?

Answer 15

The vertebral body and the articular pillar

Question 16

List, in order, the osseous parts of the typical cervical vertebra transverse process beginning at the vertebral body

Answer 16

Costal element, anterior tubercle, costotransverse bar, posterior tubercle, true transverse process

Question 17

What is the distal modification of the costal element of a typical cervical vertebra

Answer 17

Anterior Tubercle

Question 18

What is the distal modification of the transverse process of typical cervicals

Answer 18

The posterior tubercle

Question 19

What bony feature connects the anterior and posterior tubercles of typical cervicals

Answer 19

Costotransverse bar or intertubercular lamella

Question 20

What is the name given to the superior margin of the costotransverse bar?

Answer 20

Sulcus for the ventral primary ramus of a cervical spine nerve

Question 21

What is the name given to the modification of the anterior tubercle of the C6 transverse process?

Answer 21

Carotid Tubercle

Question 22

What is the usual condition for the cervical for the caucasian typical cervical spinous process?

Answer 22

They are bifid

Question 23

What is the usual condition for the african american typical cervical spinous process?

Answer 23

They are non-bifid

Question 24

What is the osseous modification at the distal end of the spinous process?

Answer 24

The spinous tubercle