Chordate and Sp. Chord Flashcards
To be a chordate:
- Need a notochord
- Dorsal hollow nerve chord
- Post anal tail
- Iodine concentrating gland
- Pharynx with clefts and pouches
What is a notochord made of?
1) Intervertebral discs
Fibrocartilage made of annulus fibrosis
2) Squishy stuff
Nucleus pulposus

Orange: annulus fibrosis
*makes up fibrocartilage
Red: nucleus pulposus
What forms clefts and pouches in our pharynx
Clefts (bulge in): External acoustic meatus
Pouches (bulge out): Eustachian tube
What are our first and second closest relatives?
chordates
echinoderms
What are somites
Groups of mesoderm that run along dorsal side of embryo
Typical body segment contains
- Spinal cord
- Dorsal root-sensory/afferent
- ventral root-motor/efferent
- Mixed spinal nerve
- Dorsal ramus-smaller
- ventral ramus-larger


3 classes of branches of Aorta
1) Paired to body wall
- Posterior intercostal arteries
- lumbar art
- common iliac
2) Paired to UG system
- gonadal art
- renal art
3) Unpaired to gut tube
- Esophogeal art.
- Sup. and inf. mesenteric art.
- celiac trunk
Thoracolumbar fascia
Thick or thin deep fascia connective tissue that covers most skeletal muscle

TL fascia layers

Posterior-covers epaxial mm
Middle
Anterior

3 layers of ep axial muscles
1) Splenius (superficial)
2) Middle (make up Erector spinae)
**From middle to lateral**
- Spinalis
- longissiumus
- iliocostalis
3) Transversospinalis - semispinalis
- multifidus
- levator costorum mm (brevis and longus)
- rotatores
- intertransverseraii
- interspinales








What penetrates semispinalis capitis?
Greater occ nerve (dorsal ramus 2)
Occ artery
Insertion of semispinalis cervicis
cervical spinal processes
Insertion of semispinalis thoracis
Upper thoracic SPs
Multifidus span how many segments
2-4
Origin and insertion of rotatores
O: TP
I: SP
Dorsal ramus of C2
Greater Occ N
Dorsal ramus of C3
3rd Occ Nerve
What forms suboccipital triangle?
1) Obliquus capitis superior
2) Obliquus capitis inferior
3) Rectus capitis post. major
4) Rectus capitis post. minor























