Moores Anatomy Respiratory System

Question 1

Which is bigger: superior thoracic aperture or inferior thoracic aperture?

Answer 1

inferior thoracic aperture

Question 2

What is on the interior of each rib?

Answer 2

It is a spongy anterior containing bone marrow which forms blood cells§

Question 3

What does a tubercle correspond with?

Answer 3

Transverse process

Question 4

How is the 1st rib different?

Answer 4

It is broad, it is the shortest and most sharply curved. It also articulates with rib T1.

Question 5

How is the 2nd rib different?

Answer 5

It is thinner, it is also twice the length of the 1st rib.

Question 6

What is different about ribs 10 - 12?

Answer 6

They only have one facet on their heads., The 11th and 12th are short and have no necks or tubercles.

Question 7

Where is the subcostal space located?

Answer 7

Under rib 12

Question 8

What makes up the subcostal nerve?

Answer 8

Anterior ramus of the spinal nerve T12.

Question 9

At what vertebral level does the manubrium lie?

Answer 9

T3 - T4

Question 10

What ligament joins the ribs and the vertebral bodies?

Answer 10

Costotransverse bodies

Question 11

What kind of joint is the intervertebral joint?

Answer 11

Symphysis (secondary cartilaginous joint)

Question 12

What kind of joint is the costovertebral joints of the head of the ribs?

Answer 12

Synovial plane

Question 13

What kind of joint is the costotransverse joint?

Answer 13

Synovial plane

Question 14

What kind of joint is the 1st sternocostal joint ?

Answer 14

Primary cartilaginous joint

Question 15

What kind of joint are the rest of the sternocostal joints?

Answer 15

Synovial plane joints

Question 16

What type of joint is the sternoclavicular joint?

Answer 16

Saddle

Question 17

What type of joint is the costochrondral joint?

Answer 17

Primary cartilaginous

Question 18

What kind of joint is the interchondral joint?

Answer 18

Synovial plane joint

Question 19

What is the costochondral joint?

Answer 19

It is the joint between the costal cartilages and the ribs

Question 20

What kind of joint is the manubriosternal joint?

Answer 20

Symphysis

Question 21

What kind of joint is the xiphisternal joint?

Answer 21

Synchondroses

Question 22

What level is the xiphisternal joint?

Answer 22

T9

Question 23

Where is the weakest part of the rib?

Answer 23

Just anteriorly to its angle

Question 24

What is flail chest?

Answer 24

A sizeable segment of the anterior and/or lateral thoracic wall moves freely because of of multiple rib fractures

Question 25

What can a cervical rib cause and where is it normally found?

Answer 25

It articulates with the C7 vertebra and can compress spinal nerves C8 to T1 or the inferior trunk of brachial plexus supplying upper limb. They can also compress subclavian artery.

Question 26

What can compression of spinale nerves C8 - T1 cause?

Answer 26

Tingling and and numbness may occur along the medial border of the forearm.

Question 27

What can compression of subclavian artery cause?

Answer 27

Ischemic muscle pain which is caused by poor blood supply.

Question 28

What is thoracotomy?

Answer 28

Surgical creation of an opening through the thoracic wall to enter a pleural cavity.

Question 29

What is anterior thoracotomy?

Answer 29

It involves making H-shaped cuts through the perichondrium of one or more costal cartilages and then shelling out segments of costal cartilage to gain entrance to the thoracic cavity.

Question 30

How does the breast lymph drain to the central and apical axillary nodes?

Answer 30

Via Infraclavicular and pectoral nodes

Question 31

Where do the internal thoracic arteries arise from?

Answer 31

Subclavian artery

Question 32

Where do the intercostal arteries supply?

Answer 32

The 1st six intercostal spaces