Lab 8 Flashcards
Mastering the concepts and anatomy of lab eight.
What are the primary and secondary curvatures?
Primary curvatures - thoracic and sacral
Secondary curvatures - cervical and lumbar
What are the three disorders of the spine?
1. Scoliosis - lateral curvature of the spine
2. Kyphosis - hunchback
3. Lordosis - swayback
How many vertebrae are there in each section?
1. Cervical - 7
2. Thoracic -12
3. Lumbar - 5
4. Sacrum - 1
5. Coccyx - 1
What are the nine parts of the typical vertebrae?
- Body (anterior)
- Pedicles
- Laminae
- Transverse processes
- Spinous processes
- Superior articulating facet
- Inferior articulating facet
- Vertebral arch
- Intervertebral foramen
What are the characteristics of cervical vertebrae?
- Transverse foramina
- Circular/small body
- Triangular vertebral canal
- Bifid spinous process
What is special about C1, C2, and C7?
1. The Atlas - No body and has superior articulating facets for the occipital condyles and a fovea dentis for the dens
2. The Axis - Dens/Odontoid process
3. The Prominence - Not bifid - Large spinous process
What are the characteristic of thoracic vertebrae?
- Heart-shaped body
- Circular vertebral canal
- Demifacets
- Inferior/Superior processes in the coronal plane
What are the characteristics of lumbar vertebrae?
- Hatchet-shaped spinous process
- Body shaped like a kidney bean
- Triangular vertebral canal
- Dull processes
- Superior/Inferior articulating processes in the sagittal plane
- Thicker than the other vertebrae
What are the seven characteristics of the sacrum?
- Sacral promontory
- Median sacral crest
- Sacral canal
- Superior articulating process
- Sacral formamina
- Sacral hiatus
- Apex and base
Name the six characteristics of the ribs and where they are.
- Head (two articulating facets)
- Neck
- Tubercle (articulating and non-articulating)
- Angle
- The body
- Costal groove that contains the vein, artery, and nerve
What is the difference between the first and second rib?
- First rib has a scalene tubercle dividing the two grooves and it only articulates with its own vertebra
- Second rib has a serratus anterior tuberosity
What makes the tenth rib atypical?
Only has one facet.
What makes the eleventh and twelfth rib atypical?
They are floating ribs and end in the posterior portion of the back. Also, they only have one facet.
What are the seven characteristics of the sternum?
- Jugular notch
- Clavicular notches
- Angle of Lewis
- Manubrium
- Body
- Xiphoid process
- Articular facets
Where is the subcostal angle?
It can be found along the angle of the costal margin.