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Cervical Spine Flashcards

1
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How many vertebrae in an adult?

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26

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2
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How many vertebrae in a child?

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33

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3
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What many intervertebral discs?

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23

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4
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What percentage of the spine’s height is from the intervertebral discs?

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25%

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5
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What is the spine’s primary curve?

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Kyphosis

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6
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What is the spine’s secondary curve?

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Lordosis

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7
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In which regions of the spine do you find the primary curves?

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Thoracic and Sacral

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8
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In which regions of the spine do you find the secondary curves?

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Cervical and Lumbar

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9
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How many segments present in the cervical, thoracic, lumbar regions?

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7,12,5

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10
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True or False: Cervical vertebral bodies are wider side to side that AP

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True

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11
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True or False: Cervial vertebral bodies have superior and inferior endplates

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True

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12
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True or False: Inferior endplates are convex side to side

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True

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13
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True or False: Inferior endplates are concave AP

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True

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14
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What is the purpose of the uncovertebral joint?

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Stabilize lateral flexion

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15
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What creates the uncoverterbal joints?

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Uncinate processes

Semi-lunar Facet

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16
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From what degree to sagittal are the pedicles of the cervical vertebrae?

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45

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17
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To which structure do the pedicles connect the vertebral body?

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Articular pillars

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18
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In the cervical spine, what do the pedicles help create?

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Bottom boundary of intervertebral foramen

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19
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How are the pedicles of the cervical spine different from the pedicles in the thoracic or lumbar spines?

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Pedicles are circular - thoracic and lumbar pedicles are more ovoid

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20
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What shape are the transverse processes in the cervical spine?

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Half-pipe shaped

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21
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What degree to sagittal are the transverse processes in the cervical spine?

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60 degrees sagittal

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22
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What degree to transverse are the transverse processes in the cervical spine?

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15 degrees transverse

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23
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What is another name for the uncovertebral joint?

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Luschka Joint (joint of von luschka)

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24
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If disc height decreases at the uncovertebral joints, what is likely to start forming?

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Osteophytes

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25
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From where does the anterior root of the transverse processes arise?

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Vertebral body

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26
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From where does the posterior root of the transverse process arise?

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Articular pillar or pedicle

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27
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What purpose do the tubercles serve on the transverse processes of the cervical vertebra?

A

Attachment sites for ligaments and muscles

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28
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What does the transverse foramen house within the cervical spine?

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Vertebral Artery

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29
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What is the posterior ponticle?

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The bony bridge on the atlas that covers the groove for the vertebral artery

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30
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The articular pillars transition into what two other landmarks in the thoracic and lumbar spines?

A

Superior articular process

Inferior articular process

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31
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Describe the directionality of the cervical facet joints.

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Facet joints are 45 degrees to the transverse plane
The superior facet joint faces upward and posterior
The inferior facet joint face anterior and downward

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32
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At what degree to transverse are the facet joints in the cervical spine

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45 degrees to transverse

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33
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What is a zygaphoysial joint?

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Facet joints

34
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What is another term for the facet joints?

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Zygaphoysial Joints (z-joints)

35
Q

What radiographic junction is created by the lamina?

A

Spinolaminar junction

36
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Describe the shape of a lamina

A

Elongated oval

37
Q

What is unique about the cervical spinous processes of the cervical vertebrae?

A

Bifid for muscle attachment

38
Q

True or False: the spinous process of the cervical vertebrae have a slight downward angle relative to the VB

39
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What is the AP dimension of the central canal of c1

40
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What is the AP dimension of the central canal of c2

41
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What is the AP dimension of the central canal of c3

42
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What is the AP dimension of the central canal of c4-c7

43
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Describe Torg’s ratio.

A

The AP dimension of the central canal should be roughly 80% the diameter of the vertebral body of the vertebra.

44
Q

What are the divisions of the atlas?

A

Anterior arch
Posterior arch
Lateral Mass

45
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Which tubercle is located on the anterior arch of the atlas?

A

Anterior tubecle

46
Q

What is posterior to the anterior tubercle?

A

Fovea Dens

47
Q

What articulates with the odontoid process of c2?

A

Fovea dens

48
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The fovea dens articulates with what portion of the axis?

A

Odontoid process

49
Q

What articulates with the lateral masses of the atlas?

50
Q

Do the lateral masses have a convexity or concavity?

51
Q

True or false: the lateral masses are oval, sometimes waisted, with a long axis and angle inward

52
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In which direction do the lateral masses slope?

A

From lateral to medial

53
Q

True or false: the lateral masses have a tubercle for the transverse ligament

54
Q

True or false: the posterior arch is larger than the anterior arch

55
Q

What is accommodated by the groove of the posterior arch?

A

Vertebral artery
Vertebral vein
1st cervical nerve

56
Q

True or false: the posterior arch is most commonly fractured

57
Q

What are the thirds in Steele’s law of thirds?

A

Spinal cord
Dens
Space

58
Q

What divides the anterior 1/3 from the posterior 2/3 in the central canal?

A

Transverse ligament

59
Q

What other purpose does the transverse ligament serve?

A

Stabilizes c1 and c2

60
Q

What is another name for the axis?

A

Epistropheus

61
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True or false: Superior portion of the axis is atypical and the inferior portion of the axis is typical.

62
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True or false: the body of the axis is thicker top to bottom than AP

63
Q

What would the odontoid process of the axis have been?

A

Body of c1

64
Q

What is the purpose of the odontoid process of the axis?

A

Creates an axial pivot point for c1

65
Q

True or false: the odontoid process tapers at the base for the transverse ligament

66
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Which portion of the odontoid process of the axis articulates with the fovea dens of the atlas?

67
Q

Describe the pedicles of the axis

A

Short and stout
Notched inferiorly for IVF
Covered by superior facets

68
Q

True or false: the c2 laminae are the largest in the cervical spine

69
Q

What does the groove behind the superior facet accommodate?

A

C2 peripheral nerve

70
Q

How do the transverse processes of the axis differ from those of c3-c7?

A

They are not bifid - only a single tubercle

71
Q

True or false: the transverse processes of the axis project laterally and angle downward

72
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True or false: the axis does not have articular pillars

73
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Describe the region of the pars interarticularis of the axis

A

In-between the superior facet and inferior facet

74
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True or false: the superior facet of the axis is anterior and the inferior facet of the axis is posterior

75
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Describe the orientation of the superior facet of the axis

A

Anterior, facing upward and lateral

76
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Describe the orientation of the inferior facet of the axis

A

Posterior, facing downward and lateral

77
Q

True or false: the spinous process of the axis is the largest in the cervical spine

78
Q

What cervical spinous process is referred to as the vertebra prominens?

79
Q

True or false: c7 has the second largest transverse processes of the cervical spine

80
Q

What is missing from the transverse process of c7?

A

Anterior tubercle

81
Q

The foramen of c7 transverse process is small and contains what?

A

Only the vertebral vein

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