Most missed questions Exam 2

Question 1

What is the orientation and angulation of a typical cervical TVP

Answer 1

60 anterolateral 15 degrees inferior

Question 2

What will occupy the typical cervical vertebra transverse foramen

Answer 2

Vertebral artery, vertebral venous plexus, and postganglionic sympathetic motor nerve fibers

Question 3

The greatest frequency of osteophytes associated with cerebral body occurs at which typical cervical vertebral couple

Answer 3

C5/C6

Question 4

At which vertebral couple will the cervical curve again increase intervertebral disc height?

Answer 4

C5/C6

Question 5

What is the fate of the neural tissue identified along the film terminal internum

Answer 5

It joins peripheral nerve roots of spinal nerves as high as L3 and low as L4

Question 6

Which vessels will drain the ventral/anterior nerve roots?

Answer 6

Anterior radicular veins

Question 7

What vessel will drain the dorsal/posterior nerve root ganglion

Answer 7

posterior radicular veins

Question 8

The greatest range of flexion - extension among the typical cervical vertebrae occurs at which vertebral couple?

Answer 8

C5/C6

Question 9

What motions are coupled in the cervical spine

Answer 9

lateral bending and axial rotation

Question 10

What will form the superior boundary of a typical cervical intervertebral foramen?

Answer 10

the inferior cerebral notch or inferior vertebral incisure

Question 11

What is the name given to the odontoid process when the facet for the fovea dents lies above the groove for the transverse atlantal ligament and the attachment sites for the apical-dental and alar ligaments appear to be directed posterior

Answer 11

lordotic dens

Question 12

What is the name given to the odontoid process when the facet for the fovea dents lies below the groove for the transverse atlantal ligament and the attachment sites for the apical-dental and alar ligaments appear to be directed anteriorly

Answer 12

kyphotic dens

Question 13

What joint classifications are present at the vertebral body of C2

Answer 13

fibrous (amphiarthrosis) syndesmosis joint, synovial (diarthrosis) trochoid joint, modified synovial (diarthrosis) seller and cartilaginous (amphiarthrosis) symphysis joint

Question 14

What muscle attaches to the lamina of C2

Answer 14

obliquus capités inferior

Question 15

What muslce attaches to the articular processes of C2

Answer 15

longissimus cervicis

Question 16

What will form the superior boundary of a typical intervertebral foramen

Answer 16

the inferior vertebral notch or inferior vertebral incisure

Question 17

What will form the posterior boundary of a typical intervertebral foramen

Answer 17

the inferior articular process/post-zygapophysis, the superior articular process/pre-zygapophysis, the capsular ligament, and the ligamentum flavum

Question 18

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

Answer 18

ventral/central/sulcal perforating arteries

Question 19

What ligaments form the costotransverse joint of the twelfth rib

Answer 19

the superior costotransverse ligament from T11 and the lumbocostal ligament of L1

Question 20

What is the proposed function of the cervical = upper thoracic hofmann ligaments

Answer 20

resist caudal movement of the dural sac/ resist gravitational forces on the dura and cord

Question 21

What is the proposed function of the lumbar hofmann ligaments

Answer 21

resist cranial movement o the dural sac during flexion