Conditions

Question 1

Lumbarization?

Answer 1

S1 isn’t completely fused with the rest of sacrum, can become an ‘L6’

Question 2

Occipitalization?

Answer 2

partial or complete fusion of C1 to Co

Question 3

Paralysis?

Answer 3

loss of control of skeletal muscle

Question 4

Paresis?

Answer 4

slight or incomplete paralysis (weakness)

Question 5

Paresthesia?

Answer 5

abnormal sensation (like the feeling of heating your ‘funny bone’)

Question 6

Ponticulum?

Answer 6

a bony bridge caused by the ossification of ligaments (like Atlantooccipital…)

Question 7

Pseudoarthrosis?

Answer 7

false/additional articulation (like when L5 has broad TP surface to sacrum)

Question 8

Sacrilization?

Answer 8

L5 (or Cx1) is partly/completely fused to sacrum

Question 9

Schmorl’s node?

Answer 9

part of the nucleus pulposas is displaced through vertebral end plate into the vertebral body

Question 10

Spondylolysis?

Answer 10

a break in vertebra at the pars interarticularis

Question 11

Spondylolysthesis?

Answer 11

displacement of vertebra from normal position

Question 12

Spondyloschisis?

Answer 12

(aka ‘spina bifida’) vertebral arch is discontinuous, broken into 2 pieces

Question 13

Stenosis?

Answer 13

the narrowing of vertebral foramen

Question 14

Synostosis?

Answer 14

a joint that has become ossified

Question 15

Tropism?

Answer 15

an asymmetry of facet planes within a segment