III. Vertebral Column/Spinal Column: Vertebral Foramen: B) Arteries: 4. Arterial Vasa Corona & Inramedullary Arteries. (Pg. 19)

Question 1

What forms the arterial vasa corona?

Answer 1

anterior spinal arteries, posterior spinal arteries and communicating arteries

Question 2

What is the generic name given to the arteries that penetrate the spinal cord?

Answer 2

intramedullary arteries

Question 3

What are the intramedullary branches of the arterial vasa corona?

Answer 3

pill perforating arteries and central/ventral/sulcal perforating arteries

Question 4

What artery gives off the ventral/central/sulcal perforating arteries?

Answer 4

the anterior spinal artery

Question 5

What arterial vasa corona branches supply gray matter and most of the spinal cord?

Answer 5

ventral/central/sulcal perforating arteries

Question 6

What intramedullary branches supply about one third of the spinal cord?

Answer 6

pial perforating arteries

Question 7

What is the source for pial perforating arteries?

Answer 7

the pial plexus

Question 8

What arteries form the pial plexus?

Answer 8

the posterior spinal arteries and the communicating arteries

Question 9

What arteries are responsible for supplementing the arterial vasa corona along the cord?

Answer 9

anterior medullary feeders and posterior medullary feeders