Ribs

Question 1

What are the primary pats of the vertebral end of a typical rib?

Answer 1

The head, neck, and tubercle

Question 2

What features may be identified on the head of a typical rib?

Answer 2

Two articular surfaces and the interarticular crest

Question 3

What feature of the head of a rib separates the superior the superior from inferior articular surface/facet?

Answer 3

The interarticular crest

Question 4

What features may be identified on the neck of a typical rib?

Answer 4

The crest of the rib

Question 5

What features may be identified on the tubercle of a typical rib?

Answer 5

The articular surface of the tubercle and the non-articular surface of the tubercle

Question 6

Which feature of the tubercle of a typical rib is closer to the head of the rib?

Answer 6

The articular surface of the tubercle

Question 7

What is present at the head of the first rib?

Answer 7

A single articular surface

Question 8

What is lacking at the head of the first rib?

Answer 8

The interarticular crest

Question 9

Is there a crest on the neck of the first rib?

Answer 9

Not a well-developed on like on a typical rib

Question 10

What is unique about the body (corpus or shaft) of the first rib?

Answer 10

The body (corpus or shaft) of the first rib is flattened and has a scalene tubercle flanked by the groove for subclavian artery and the groove for the subclavian vein

Question 11

Which groove on the body (corpus/shaft) of the first rib is close to the vertebral end?

Answer 11

The groove for the subclavian artery and the first thoracic nerve

Question 12

Which groove on the body (corpus/shaft) of the first rib is close to the sternal end?

Answer 12

The groove for the subclavian vein

Question 13

What features may be identified on the head of rib 2?

Answer 13

Two articular surfaces and the interarticular crest

Question 14

What feature of the head of rib 2 separates the superior from inferior articular surface/facet?

Answer 14

The interarticular crest

Question 15

What feature may be identified on the neck of rib 2?

Answer 15

The crest of rib 2

Question 16

What features may be identified on the tubercle of rib 2?

Answer 16

The articular surface of the tubercle and the non articular surface of the tubercle

Question 17

Which feature of rib 2 is closer to the head of the rib?

Answer 17

The articular surface on the tubercle

Question 18

What distinguishes the vertebral end of rib 11 from typical ribs?

Answer 18

The single articular surface, absence of a well-developed crest on the neck and the tubercle may be absent or if present consist only of a non articular surface

Question 19

What helps to distinguish the vertebral end of the twelfth rib from other ribs?

Answer 19

The head has a single articular surface, the crest of the neck is poorly developed, the tubercle is absent

Question 20

What is the condition of the body (corpus/shaft) of rib 12?

Answer 20

The costal angle and costal groove are absent and it is the shortest of all ribs