Chapter 8 Flashcards
What is the weight bearing part of the vertebrae?
Body
What are the two main parts of the vertebrae?
Body and verterbral arch
What is a half ring of bone that helps make up the vertebral foramen?
Arch
What makes up the vertebral canal?
All of the vertebral foramen
What does the spinal cord fit through?
Vertebral canal
What is the arch made up of on a typical vertebra?
Pedicles, laminae, a spinous process, and transverse process
What is the function of intervertebral joints and Zygapopyseal joints?
Allow for flexibility and movement in the spine
Where are interverterbal joints located?
Between the vertebral bodies
What makes up Zygapophyseal joints?
4 artciular processes
Where are costovertebtal joints located?
T-spine only
What forms the interverterbral foramina?
Superior and inferior notches of adjoining pedicles
What passes through the intervertebral foramina?
Spinal nerves and blood
What makes up the intervertebral disk?
Outer fibrous portion called the annulus fibrosus and the soft jelly like part called the nucleus pulposus
What are the intervertebral disks?
Fibrocartiliginous disks between the bodies of vertebrae except 1st and 2nd cervical vertabrae
What causes a slipped disk or HNP (herniated nucleus pulposus)
When the nucleus pulposus (soft jelly part) protrudes through the fibrous layer, pressing on the spinal cord
Where does the spinal canal start and end?
Starts at the base of the skull and extends into sacrum - it follows the curves of the spinal vertebra
What is located within the spinal canal?
Spinal cord and filled with cerebrospinal fluid
Where does the spinal cord start and end?
Starts at the medulla oblongata in the brain, moves through all of the vertebrae until about the 1st lumbar vertebrae, then it tapers off into the conus medullaris
Function of intervertebral disks?
Separate the vertebrae and provide cushion, spacing, movement, and stability
Where does the cervical spine start and end?
C1 through C7
How do cervical vertebrae look compared to other?
Show little resemblance, get larger as they move down
Various characteristics of cspine vertebrae?
Bifid spinous process tips, overlapping vertebral bodies, and transverse foramina
What is C1 called and why is it unique?
Atlas - it has no vertebral body but has a thick arch called the anterior arch
What does the anterior archof C1 include?
Anterior tubercle
What is the ligament located on the atlas and what is it’s function?
Atlantal ligament - holds the ondontoid (dens) in place. Fits like a ring on a finger
What do the superior articular processes of C1 articulate with?
Occipital condyles of the skull
What is the articulation called between the occipital condyles and C1?
Atlantooccipital Articulation
The segments of bone between the superior and inferior articular processes (on C1) are called:
Lateral masses