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The Skeletal System (Axial) Pt. 2 Flashcards

1
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How many vertebral bones exist in the spine during fetal development?

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During fetal development, the spine consists of 33 separate bones called vertebrae

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What are the separate bones of the spine called?

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Vertebrae

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How many of the 33 (fetal) vertebrae will fuse into composite bones?

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Nine of these vertebrae will fuse forming two composite bones

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What are the two composite bones that are formed from the fusing of 33 (fetal) vertebrae into nine bones? (2)

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  • Sacrum
  • Coccyx
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What do the sacrum and coccyx construct?

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  • Construct the inferior portion of the vertebral column
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How many single bones exist in the vertebrae?

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24 single bones

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What are the first seven vertebrae called?

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Cervical vertebrae

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How many vertebrae are in the cervical vertebrae?

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Seven

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What are the next twelve vertebrae called?

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Thoracic vertebrae

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How many vertebrae are in the thoracic vertebrae?

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Twelve

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What are the last five vertebrae called?

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Lumbar vertebrae

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How many vertebrae are in the lumbar vertebrae?

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Five

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13
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What vertebrae support the lower back?

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Lumbar vertebrae

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14
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How should the vertebrae be remembered?

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A good way to help remember thee vertebrae numbers might be to identify them with common meal times, 7 a.m., 12 p.m., and 5 p.m.

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What is the order of the vertebrae? (5)

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  • 7 Cervical vertebrae
  • 12 Thoracic vertebrae
  • 5 Lumbar vertebrae
  • Sacrum
  • Coccyx
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16
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What are intervertebral discs?

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Pads of flexible fibrocartilage which separate the single vertebrae

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17
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What does fibrocartilage do?

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Separates the single vertebrae

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18
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What is the shape of the vertebral column?

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The vertebral column is “S” shaped

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19
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What do the discs and the “s” shaped column prevent? When do they prevent it? (2)

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  • The discs along with the “s” shaped structure of the vertebral column work together to prevent shock to the head
  • When walking and running
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What do the “s” shaped column and vertebral column make up?

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They also make the body trunk

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What is the body of the vertebrae called?

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Centrum

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What are the features of the body or centrum of the individual vertebrae? Where does the weight-bearing part of the vertebrae face in the vertebral column? (2)

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  • Disc like
  • Weight-bearing part of the vertebrae facing anteriorly in the vertebral column
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23
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What is the vertebral arch?

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Arch formed from the joining of all posterior extentions

24
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What forms the vertebral body? (2)

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  • laminae
  • pedicles
25
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What is the vertebral foramen?

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Canal through which the spinal cord passes

26
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What are the transverse processes?

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Two lateral projections from the vertebral arch

27
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What are the seven cervical vertebrae identified as?

28
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What do the seven cervical vertebrae form?

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For the neck region of the spine

29
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What is the C1 vertebrae called?
What is the C2 vertebrae called? (2)

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  • Atlas (C1)
  • Axis (C2)
30
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What does the atlas receive at the skull?

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Receives the occipital condyles of the skull

31
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What does the atlas allow us to do?What doesn’t the atlas have? (2)

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  • Allows us to nod yes
  • Does not have a centrum
32
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What does the axis act as?

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Acts a a pivot for the rotation of the atlas and skull

33
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What are the 12 thoracic vertebrae identified with? What describes them? (2)

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  • Identified as T1 to T12
  • They are all typical
34
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What are the thoracic vertebrae larger than?

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Larger than the cervical vertebrae

35
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What is the body somewhat shaped as?

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Somewhat heart-shaped

36
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What does the thoracic cavity have on each side?

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Has two coastal clemifacets (articulating surfaces) on each side

37
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What do the thoracic vertebrae receive?

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Receive the heads of the ribs

38
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What are the five lumbar vertebrae identified as?

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Identified as L1 to L5

39
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Description of lumbar vertebrae? (4)

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  • They have massive block-like bodies
  • Short
  • Hatchet-shaped spinous processes
  • Look like a moose head from the lateral aspect
40
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What are the alae? Where do they articulate and what do they form? (2)

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  • Wing-like in shape
  • Articulates laterally with the hip bones, forming the sacroiliac joints
41
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What does the sacrum form?

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The posterior wall of the pelvis

42
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What is the sacral canal?

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The vertebral canal continuing inside the sacrum

43
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What is the coccyx formed from?

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Formed from the fusion of three to five tiny, irregularly shaped vertebrae

44
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What is the coccyx a remnant of?

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Is the human “tailbone”, a remnant of the tail that other vertebrae animals have

45
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What is another name for sternum?

A

Breastbone

46
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What is the sternum (breastbone)? (first 2)

A
  • A typical flat bone
  • Result of the fusion of three bones:
    1. The manubrium
    2. The body
    3. The xiphoid process
47
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What are the three bones that fuse to create the sternum? (3)

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  • the manubrium
  • the body
  • the xiphoid process
48
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What pairs of ribs are the sternum attached to?

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the first several pairs

49
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What is the jugular notch?

A

concave upper border of manubrium

50
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What can be done to the jugular notch easily?

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can be palpated (examined by touch) easily

51
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What are the true ribs?

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first seven pairs

52
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In what way do the true ribs attach to the sternum and by what? (2)

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  • attach directly to the sternum
  • by costal cartilage
53
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What are false ribs?

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next five pairs

54
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In what two ways false ribs attached to the sternum? (2)

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  • either attach indirectly to the sternum
  • or are not attached to the sternum
55
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What are floating ribs? What do they not attach to?

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The last two pairs of false ribs that do not attach to the sternum

56
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What are the intercostal spaces between the ribs filled with? What does that filling aid with?

A

Are filled with intercostal muscles that aid in breathing

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