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Nerves and Spine Flashcards

1
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Primary curvatures

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Thorascic and Sacral

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2
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Secondary curvatures

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Cervical and Lumbar

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3
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How many cervical vertebrae

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7

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4
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How many Thoracic vertebrae

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12

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5
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How many Lumbar vertebrae

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5

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6
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How many sacral vertebrae

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5 fused vertebrae

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7
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How many coccal vertebrae

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4

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8
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Hunch back

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Kyphosis

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9
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sway back

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Lordosis

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10
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Curved back

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Scoliosis

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11
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What is in the vertebral canal

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spinal cord

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12
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Where do spinal nerves exit the spinal column

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the intervertebral foramen

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13
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Where does the disc sit and what is the structures function

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vertebral body and load bearing

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14
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Vertebral arch components and location

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Pedicle: Small feet
Lamina: Arching area

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15
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Name and locate the 4 processes

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Transverse: off to the side
Spinous: Spine
Inferior and superior articular process

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16
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What are the vertebral notches

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form the intervertebral foramen

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17
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What is the Atlas missing

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Body

18
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Axis special prominence

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Dens

19
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What do all cervical vertebrae have?

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transverse foramen

20
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What is C7’s special name

A

prominens

21
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How do you identify Thoracic vertebrae

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Spinous processes slope inferiorly

Costal facets for rib articulation

22
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How do you identify Lumbar vertabrae

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Large bodies
blunt spinous process
long slender transverse process

23
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What is the sacral promontory

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Inward curving anterior edge

24
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What is the sacral ala

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“wings” of the sacrum

25
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Holes in sacrum

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Anterior and posterior faoramen

26
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Absence of posterior sacrum

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sacral hiatus

27
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tube in the center of the sacrum

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sacral canal

28
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What is the concentric rings of a disc

A

anulus fibrosus

29
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What is the semi solid center of a disc

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Nucleus pulposus

30
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atlas and occipital joint

A

atlanto-occipital joint

31
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atlas and axis joint

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atlanto-axial joint

32
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joints fromed by the two articular processes

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facet joints

33
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Where is gray matter in the spinal cord?

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The middle forming the dorsal, ventral, and lateral horns

34
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Where are the lateral horns?

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T1-L2 and S2-S4

35
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Where is the white matter in the spine?

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Everywhere else

36
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what is the largest drainiage vein in the spinal column?

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the anterior internal vertebral venous plexus

37
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What is the central canal

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CSF flows through the ceter of the spinal cord

38
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What is the tapered lower level of the spinal cord called

A

the conus medullaris

39
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What is the single cord that anchors the spinal cord and helps prevent twisting

A

the filum terminale

40
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what is the grouping of spinal nerves and nerve rootlets near the base of the spinal cord

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the cauda equina

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