Thoracic vertebrae info

Question 1

Thoracic vertebrae are specialize for?

Answer 1

Attachment to ribs

Question 2

Thoracic vertebrae each attach to a pair of ____ forming a________

Answer 2

Ribs

Synovial joint

Question 3

What are the two major sites for rib contact (costal facets)?

Answer 3

Vertebral bodies and transverse processes

Question 4

What type of facet is exclusive to thoracic vertebrae?

Answer 4

Transverse costal facet

Question 5

Thoracic spinous processes are long or short?

Which way do they point?

Answer 5

Long

Downward

Question 6

True or false, the sacral vertebrae are fused?

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What kind of process does S1 make with L5?

Answer 7

Superior articular process

Question 8

The S1 has remnants of TPs called what?

Answer 8

ALA

Question 9

The lumbar vertebrae have large what?

Answer 9

Vertebral bodies due to weight bearing

Question 10

The TP of lumbar vertebrae are more____ than thoracic and more _____

Answer 10

Brittle

Lateral

Question 11

The S2-S5 TP’s are also known as the?

This mass fuses to what?

Answer 11

Lateral mass

The ileum

Question 12

The sacrum sits at a ___ degree incline, so there is a tendency for ____ to slide down.
What alleviates this?

Answer 12

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L5
S1s AP faces posteriorly, and L5s inferior AP faces anteriorly

Question 13

The coccygeal vertebrae make up the?

Answer 13

Tail bone

Question 14

Coccygeal 1 is the only bone of the 4 to resemble a?

Answer 14

Vertebrae