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How many ribs are there?

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12

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Name 3 parts of sternum

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Manubrium
Body
Xiphoid process

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How many ribs are true?

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7

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How many ribs are false? And how many of the false are floating?

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5 false

2 floating

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What is the costal cartilage made of?

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Hyaline

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How many thoracic vertebrae are there?

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12

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What is the space beneath the rib cage called?

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Thoracic cavity

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Cervical vertebrae

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Neck
7
1st is the atlas, 2nd is the axis
Traverse foramen 
Bifricated spine
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Thoracic vertebrae?

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Back
Articulate with ribs
12
Sharp spines, pronounced processes

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Lumbar vertebrae

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Lower back (small of back)
5
Large
Blunt process
Big body or centrum
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Sacrum

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Articulates with the pelvis
4-5 fused vertebrae
Sacral foramina

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coccyx

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Below the sacrum, it’s the tailbone

2-4 fused vertebrae

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What are the intervertebral foramen?

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Spinal nerves, holes in vertebrae

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What are the intervertebral discs?

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Fibrocartilage in between vertebrae (annulus fibrosis), fluid inside (gel like & called nucleus palposus)

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What is the body of the vertebrae?

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The largest space

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What is the spine?

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The longest point on the vertebrae

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Pedicle

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Space between transverse process and the body

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What is the Lamina?

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Space between intervertebral facet and spine

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Traverse process

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Points on outsides of vertebrae (on both sides of spine)

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Where is the medial sacred crest?

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The middle line of the sacrum

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What are the sacral foramen?

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Holes in the sacrum

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Articular facets

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The flat processes on the vertebrae

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Atlas

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Spaceship of the cervical vertebrae

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Axis

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Pointy side of cervical vertebrae

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Kyphosis

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Exaggerated curve in the thoracic

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Lordosis

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Exaggerated curve in the lumbar

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Scoliosis

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Abnormal curvature

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