Typical Cervical Vertebrae

Question 1

What muscles will attach to the anterior tubercle of a typical cervical vertebra?

Answer 1

Anterior scalene, longus capitis, longus colli, anterior intertransversarii

Question 2

What muscles may attach to the posterior tubercle of a typical cervical vertebra?

Answer 2

Splenius cervicis, iliocostalis cervicis, longissimus cervicis, levator scapula, middle scalene, posterior scalene, rotators and posterior intertransversarii

Question 3

What muscles will attach to the costotransverse bar?

Answer 3

Middle scalene and posterior intertransversarii

Question 4

What is the name given to the superior margin of the costotransverse bar?

Answer 4

Sulcus for the ventral primary ramus of a cervical spinal nerve

Question 5

What is the orientation and angulation of a typical cervical transverse process?

Answer 5

60 degrees anterolaterally (from midsaggital plane), 15 degrees inferiorly (from the horizontal plane)

Question 6

What is the name given to the modification of the anterior tubercle of the C6 transverse process?

Answer 6

The carotid tubercle

Question 7

What will cause remodeling of the anterior tubercle at C6?

Answer 7

The common carotid artery

Question 8

What will occupy the typical cervical vertebra transverse foramen?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What nerve indents the articular pillar of typical cervical vertebrae?

Answer 9

The medial branch of the dorsal ramus of a cervical spinal nerve

Question 10

What is the classic angulation of typical cervical articular facets?

Answer 10

40 to 45 degrees from the coronal plane

Question 11

Recent work suggests what angulation for typical cervical articular facets?

Answer 11

55 to 60 degrees

Question 12

What is the orientation of the typical cervical inferior articular facet?

Answer 12

Forward, lateral, downward (FoLD)

Question 13

What is the orientation of the typical cervical superior articular facet?

Answer 13

Backward, upward, medial (BUM)

Question 14

What muscles will attach to typical cervical articular processes?

Answer 14

The longissimus capitis, longissimus cervicis, semispinalis capitis, semispinalis cervicis, multifidis, and rotators

Question 15

What muscles blend with the capsular ligament of cervical zygapophyses?

Answer 15

The semispinalis capitis, multifidis and rotator longus

Question 16

What is the joint classification for the typical cervical zygapophysis?

Answer 16

Synovial plane (diarthrosis arthrodia) joint

Question 17

What will influence spinal kinematics?

Answer 17

Geometry of articular facets, mechanical properties of connective tissue, mechanical properties of muscle

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Typically C5/C6

Question 19

What motions are coupled in the cervical spine?

Answer 19

Lateral bending and axial rotation

Question 20

Ranges of coupled motion among the typical cervical vertebrae will begin to decrease at what cervical vertebral couple?

Answer 20

The C5/C6 vertebral couple

Question 21

What is the usual condition for the Caucasian typical cervical spinous process?

Answer 21

They are bifid

Question 22

What is the usual condition for the African-American typical cervical spinous process?

Answer 22

They are non-bifid

Question 23

What muscles may attach to the typical cervical spinous process?

Answer 23

The spinalis cervicis, semispinalis cervicis, semispinalis thoracis, multifidis, rotators and interspinalis