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Typical Lumbar Spine L1-L4 Flashcards

1
Q

What is the generic shape of the typical lumber vertebral body from the cranial view?

A

Reniform/kidney shaped

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2
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What accounts for the directions of the lumbar curve

A

The vertebral body and Intervertebral dic have a greater anterior height than posterior height

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3
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How many joint surfaces are present on the vertebral body of a typical lumbar

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Six

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4
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how many synovial joint surfaces are present on the vertebral body of a typical lumber?

A

none

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5
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How many cartilaginous symphysis joint surfaces are on a typical lumber vertebral body

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Two

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6
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How many fibrous syndesmosis joint surfaces are on a typical lumbar vertebral body

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Four

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7
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What muscles may attach to the first lumbar vertebral body

A

psoas major and psoas minor

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8
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What muscles may attach from the second down to the fourth lumbar vertebral body

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Psoas major

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9
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Psoas minor will only attach to the vertebral body of which segments

A

T12, L1

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10
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What is the name given to ligaments that attach the vertebral body to articular process

A

Transforaminal ligaments

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11
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What ligaments attach the vertebral body to the transverse process

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corporotransverse ligaments

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12
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Hofmann ligaments are identified in which regions along the vertebral column

A

Cervical - Upper thoracic region and lumbar region

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13
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Cervical - Upper thoracic Hofmann ligaments will attach to what structures together

A

dura mater to segments above

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14
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What is the highest level know to demonstrate hofmann ligaments

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C6

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15
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What is the proposed function of the cervical - upper thoracic Hofmann ligaments

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Resist caudal movement of the dural sac; resist gravitational forces on the dura and cord

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16
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Lumber Hofmann ligaments will attach what structures together

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Dura mater to lower segmental levels

17
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What is the proposed function of the lumbar Hofmann ligaments

A

Resist cranial movement of the dural sac during flexion

18
Q

What osseous conditions of lumbar vertebra facillitate a spinal tap in this region

A

There is NO lamina overlap (shingling), Spinous process overlap (Imbrication)

19
Q

What is the name of the elevation near the origin of the lubar transverse process

A

Accessoty process

20
Q

A styloid process occurs with what frequency and as a result of what condition

A

7% occurrences as a result of congenital elongation of the lumber accessory process

21
Q

What muscles attach to the lumbar accessory process

A

Longissimus thoracis

intertransersarii

22
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What muscles may attach to the transverse process of a typical lumbar vertebra

A 
psoas major
Quadratus lumborum
longissimus thoracis
rotator brevis
rotator longus
intertransversarii
23
Q

What muscles will attach to lumbar superior articular process

A

Multifidis and intertransversarii

24
Q

What ligament will attach to the lumbar superior articular process and transverse process

A

Mammillo-accessory ligament

25
Q

What was believed to be entrapped by the mammilo-accessory ligament

A

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

26
Q

What is the joint classification for the typical lumbar zygapophysis

A

synovial plane (diarthrosis arthrodia

27
Q

How many synovial joints are present on a typical lumbar vertebra

A

Four

28
Q

What is the position of the lumbar zygapophysis in children

A

the zygapophysis lies in the coronal plane

29
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What is the position of the lumbar zygapophysis in adults

A

The zygapophysis lies in the saggital plane for L1/L2 L3/L4

The zygapophysis lies in the coronal plane for L4/L5 L5/S1

30
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What name is given to zygapophysis between vertebral couples that lie in the same plane

A

Joint symmetry

31
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What names are given to the condition in which one zygapophysis of a vertebral couple lies in the coronal plane or position and the other zygapophysis lies in the sagittal plane or position

A

Joint asymmetry or joint tropism

32
Q

What is the name of the condition in which the typical lumbar spinous process increases in length due to the aging process

A

Baastrup’s syndrome “kissing spines”

33
Q

What muscles will attach to the typical lumbar spinous process

A 
latissimus dorsi,
 serratus posterior inferior, 
iliocostalis lumborum,
 longissimus thoracis, 
spinalis thoracis, multifidis, 
rotator longus,
 rotator brevis
 interspinalis

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