Chapter 6 Part 2b Axial Skeleton

Question 1

What are the four sections of the vertebral column?

Answer 1

cervical
thoracic
lumbar
sacrum

Question 2

How many bones in the cervical spine?

Answer 2

7

Question 3

How many bones in the thoracic spine?

Answer 3

12

Question 4

How many bones in the lumbar spine?

Answer 4

5

Question 5

How many fused bones in the sacrum?

Answer 5

5

Question 6

Name the pink highlighted region

Answer 6

cervical spine

Question 7

Name the pink highlighted region

Answer 7

thoracic spine

Question 8

Name the pink highlighted region

Answer 8

lumbar spine

Question 9

Name the pink highlighted region

Answer 9

sacral curve

Question 10

What bones does the sacral curve articulate with?

Answer 10

pelvic bones

Question 11

Name the pink highlighted region

Answer 11

coccyx

Question 12

How many bones are fused together in the coccyx?

Answer 12

4

Question 13

Name the pink highlighted part

Answer 13

vertebral body

Question 14

Name the pink highlighted part

Answer 14

intervertebral disc (IVD)

Question 15

name the pink highlighted part

Answer 15

joints

Question 16

How are the cervical spine bones labeled?

Answer 16

C1 - C7

Question 17

Name the pink highlighted part

Answer 17

foramen

Question 18

Name the pink highlighted part

Answer 18

vertebral body

Question 19

Name the pink highlighted part

Answer 19

bifid spinous

Question 20

What is the name of C1?

Answer 20

atlas

Question 21

What is the name for C2?

Answer 21

axis

Question 22

What is unique about C1?

Answer 22

has no bifid spinous
has no vertebral body
it rotates around the C2 (axis)

Question 23

What is unique about C2 (axis)?

Answer 23

it has a dens, which is a part that sticks up into the foramen of the C1

Question 24

What do the thoracic vertabrae connect to?

Answer 24

ribs

Question 25

Name the pink highlighted section of the thoracic vertebrae

Answer 25

transverse process

Question 26

Name the pink highlighted region of the thoracic vertebrae

Answer 26

spinous process

Question 27

Name the pink highlighted region of the thoracic vertebrae

Answer 27

vetebral body

Question 28

Name the pink highlighted region of the thoracic vertebrae

Answer 28

intervertebal disc

Question 29

Name the pink highlighted part of the thoracic spine

Answer 29

spinal nerve

Question 30

Name the pink highlighted part of the lumbar vertebrae

Answer 30

superior articular facet

Question 31

What comes through the foramen in the sacrum?

Answer 31

nerves

Question 32

What vertebrae sits on top of the sacrum in the pink highlighted section?

Answer 32

L5

Question 33

Posteriorly, where do the ribs extend from?

Answer 33

T1-T12

Question 34

Anteriorly, where do the ribs extend from?

Answer 34

sternum

Question 35

How many ribs are there?

Answer 35

12 on each side

Question 36

Do ribs 11 and 12 touch the sternum?

Answer 36

no

Question 37

What are ribs 11 and 12 referred to as?

Answer 37

floating ribs