Exam 2 Typical Lumbar Spine L1-L4

Question 1

What accounts for the direction of the lumbar curve

Answer 1

The vertebral body and the intervertebral disc have a greater anterior height then posterior height

Question 2

How many synovial joint surfaces are present on the vertebral body of a typical lumbar

Answer 2

None

Question 3

How many joint surfaces are present on the vertebral body of a typical lumbar

Answer 3

6

Question 4

How many cartilaginous amphiarthrosis symphysis joint surfaces are on a typical lumbar vertebral body

Answer 4

2

Question 5

How many fibrous amphiarthrosis syndesmosis joint surfaces are on a typical lumbar vertebral body

Answer 5

4

Question 6

What muscles may attach to the first lumbar vertebral body

Answer 6

Psoas major and psoas minor

Question 7

What muscles may attach from the second down to the fourth lumbar vertebral body

Answer 7

Psoas major

Question 8

Psoas minor will only attached to the vertebral body of which segments

Answer 8

T12, L1

Question 9

What is the name given to the ligaments that attach the vertebral body to the articular process

Answer 9

Transforaminal ligaments

Question 10

What ligaments attached the vertebral body to the transverse process

Answer 10

Corporotransverse ligaments

Question 11

Cervical upper thoracic Hoffman ligaments will attach what structures together

Answer 11

Dura matter to segment above

Question 12

What is the generic shape of the typical lumbar vertebral body from the cranial view

Answer 12

Reniform or kidney shaped

Question 13

Hoffman ligaments are identified in which regions along the vertebral column

Answer 13

Cervical upper thoracic region and lumbar region

Question 14

What is the highest level known to demonstrate Hoffman ligaments

Answer 14

C6

Question 15

What is the proposed function of the cervical upper thoracic Hoffman ligaments

Answer 15

Resist caudle movement of the dural sac

resist gravitational forces of the Dura and cord

Question 16

Lumbar Hoffman ligaments will attach what structures together

Answer 16

Dura matter to lower segmental levels

Question 17

What is the proposed function of the proximal root sleeve ligament

Answer 17

Resist displacement of the peripheral nervous system in the intervertebral foramen

Question 18

What osseous conditions of the lumbar vertebral facilitate a spinal tap in this region

Answer 18

Overlap of the lamina shingling diminishes overlap of the spinous processes imbrication diminishes

Question 19

What is the name of the elevation near the origin of the lumbar transverse process

Answer 19

Accessory process

Question 20

A styloid process occurs with what frequency and as a result of what condition

Answer 20

7% occurrence as a result of congenital elongation of the lumbar accessory process

Question 21

What ligaments will attach to the lumbar accessory process

Answer 21

Mammilo accessory ligament

Question 22

What parts of the vertebra are attached via the mamillo accessory ligament

Answer 22

The mamillary process and the accessory process of the same segment

Question 23

What was believed to be in trapped by the mamillo accessory ligament

Answer 23

The medial branch of the dorsal Ramus of the lumbar spinal nerve

Question 24

What muscles attached to the lumbar accessory process

Answer 24

Longissimus thoracis and intertransversarii

Question 25

What muscles me attach to the transverse process of a typical lumbar vertebra

Answer 25

Psoas major 
Quadratus lumborum 
Longissimus thoracis 
Rotator brevis, longus 
Intertransversarii

Question 26

What ligaments attached to the transverse process of a typical lumbar vertebra

Answer 26

Lumbocostal
Mamillo accessory
Intertransverse

Question 27

What is the orientation of a typical lumbar superior articular facet

Answer 27

Backward upward medial typically concave

Question 28

What is the orientation of a typical lumbar inferior articular facet

Answer 28

Forward lateral downward significantly convex

Question 29

What muscles will attach to the mammillary process

Answer 29

Multifidus

Intertransversarii

Question 30

What ligament will attach to the lumbar superior articular process and transverse process

Answer 30

Mamillo accessory ligament

Question 31

What was believed to be entrapped by the mamillo accessory ligament

Answer 31

The medial branch of the dorsal ramus of a lumbar spinal nerve

Question 32

What additional ligaments are said to attach to the lumbar articular processes

Answer 32

Transforaminal ligaments

Question 33

What is the joint classification for the typical lumbar zygapophysis

Answer 33

Synovial plane diarthrosis arthrodia

Question 34

How many synovial joints are present on a typical lumbar vertebra

Answer 34

4

Question 35

What is the position of a lumbar zygapophysis in children

Answer 35

The zygapophyses lies in the coronal plane

Question 36

What is the position of the lumbar zygapophysis in adults

Answer 36

They apophysis lies in the sagittal plane for L1/L2 L2/L3 L3/L4 does a apophysis lies in the coronal plane for L4/L5 L5/S1

Question 37

What name is given to the zygapophyses between vertebral couples that lie in the same plane

Answer 37

Joint symmetry

Question 38

What names are given to the condition in which one zygapophysis of the vertebral couple lies in the coronal plane or position and the other zygapophysis lies in the sagittal plane or position

Answer 38

Joint asymmetry or joint tropism

Question 39

What is the name of the condition in which the typical lumbar spinous processes increases in length due to the aging process

Answer 39

Baastrups syndrome or kissing spines

Question 40

What muscles will attach the typical lumbar spinous process

Answer 40

Latissimus dorsi 
serratus posterior inferior 
iliocostalis lumborum 
longissimus thoracis 
Spinalis thoracis 
Multifidus 
Rotator brevis, Longus
Interspinalis