Fast Facts - Vertebrae

Question 1

What is the function of the Superior Articular Process?

Answer 1

The restriction of movement.

Question 2

What is the function of the vertebral body?

Answer 2

To support body weight

Question 3

The spinous process and transverse process are the sites for?

Answer 3

Muscle attachment and movement.

Question 4

What is the function of the vertebral arch?

Answer 4

To protect the spinal cord

Question 5

What is the vertebral arch made of?

Answer 5

Lamina (roof of house) and pedicles (walls or sides of house).

Question 6

Which direction do the inferior articular facets face?

Answer 6

Anterolaterally.

Question 7

Which direction do the superior articular facets face?

Answer 7

Posteromedially.

Question 8

What are the cervical vertebrae characterized by?

Answer 8

The presence of foramina in their transverse processes.

Question 9

Which vertebrae does not have a spinous process?

Answer 9

C1 or Atlas.

Question 10

What is the Uncus do?

Answer 10

Controls orientation of vertebrae.

Question 11

Which artery goes through the transverse foramen of C1-C6?

Answer 11

The Vertebral Artery.

Question 12

On the cervical vertebrae, what is the transverse process made up of?

Answer 12

The anterior tubercle, posterior tubercle, and the groove for the spinal nerve.

Question 13

What only occurs at C6?

Answer 13

The carotid tubercle

Question 14

C3-C5 have short and bifid spinous processes. For whom is this less common?

Answer 14

BLACK PEOPLE

Question 15

What is between the anterior and posterior tubercle of the cervical vertebrae?

Answer 15

Exiting nerve roots

Question 16

What is special about the spinous process in the cervical vertebrae?

Answer 16

Some are bifid, but only in cervical.

Question 17

What is the function of the intervertebral discs?

Answer 17

Provide strong attachments between vertebral bodies, permit movement, have resilient deformability, serve as shock absorbers.

Question 18

Where are the unconvertable "joints" (of Luschka) located?

Answer 18

Between the uncinate processes of C3-C6 vertebrae and the beveled inferolateral surfaces of the vertebral bodies superior to them.

Question 19

What is a typical vertebrae consist of?

Answer 19

Vertebral body, vertebral arch, and seven processes.

Question 20

What does the vertebral canal contain?

Answer 20

Spinal cord, meninges, fat, spinal nerve roots, and vessels.

Question 21

What does the IV foramina give passage to?

Answer 21

Spinal nerve roots and accompanying vessels and contain the spinal ganglia.

Question 22

What are the primary curvatures of the spine?

Answer 22

Thoracic and Sacral

Question 23

What are the secondary curvatures of the spine?

Answer 23

Cervical and Lumbar

Question 24

At the fetus stage, the entire spine is curved

Answer 24

Concave anteriorly.

Question 25

How many vertebrae are there?

Answer 25

7 Cervical 12 Thoracic 5 Lumbar 5 Sacral 4 Coccyx

Question 26

Answer 26

1. Transverse Ligament Attachment Point
2. Anterior Arch
3. Anterior Tubercle
4. Facet for the dens
5. Lateral Mass
6. Vertebral Foramen
7. Posterior Arch
8. Posterior Tubercle
9. Groove for Vertebral Artery
10. Transverse Foramen
11. Transverse Process
12. Superior articular facet

Question 27

Answer 27

1. Tranverse Process
2. Facet for atlas
3. Dens
4. Superior Articular Facet
5. Inferior Articular Process
6. Spinous Process (bifid)

Question 28

Answer 28

1. Body
2. Spinous process
3. Transverse process
4. Pedicle
5. Vertebral foramen
6. Lamina
7. Epiphysial Rim
8. Superior Articular Facet
9. Inferior Articular Facet
10. Superior Articular Process

*11. Costal Facet

**thoracic Only**