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Vertebral Column Flashcards

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2 secondary curves

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Develop over, cervical and lumbar

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2 primary curves

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Born with, thoracic and sacral

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2
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Bent away from you

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Anteriorly concave

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3
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Bent coming towards you

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Anteriorly convex

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4
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Over-pronounced thoracic curve, hunchback

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Kyphosis

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5
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Over-pronounced lumbar back, swayback

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Lordosis

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6
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Lateral curvature to entire column, side to side

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Scoliosis

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7
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How many bones do infants have?

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33

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How many bones do adults have?

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26

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9
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The body

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Centrum

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10
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Composed of pedicle and lamina

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Vertebral arch

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11
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Incomplete arch

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Spina bifida

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12
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Comes straight up the centrum

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Pedicle

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13
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Connects arch

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Lamina

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14
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Contains spinal cord

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Vertebral foramen or vertebral canal

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15
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Passageways for spinal nerves

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Intervertebral foramen or intervertebral notch

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16
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What you feel when you feel your spine on your back

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Spinous process

17
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All have transverse processes

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C1-C7

18
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Have a bifid spinous process

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C2-C6

19
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Has vertebrae prominent (extra tubercle)

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C7

20
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Extra tubercle

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Vertebrae prominen

21
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What does C7 have instead of a bifid?

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Tubercle (vertebrae prominen)

22
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The atlas

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C1

23
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What does C1 form?

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Atlanto-occipital joint (yes motion)

24
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What is present in the C1?

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Anterior and posterior arch

25
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The axis

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C2

26
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What does the C2 form?

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Atlanto-axial joint (no motion)

27
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What makes C2 different?

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Dens or odontoid process

28
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The extra nubby on C2

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Dens or odontoid process

29
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What does T1-T12 contain?

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Costal facet and demi-facet

30
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Rib articulation, found on transverse process

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Costal facet

31
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For rib articulation, superior and inferior

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Demi-facet

32
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Fused spinous process

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Median sacral crest

33
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Fused transverse processes

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Lateral sacral crest

34
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Shock absorbers between successive centra

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Intervertebral disks

35
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Jelly middle, shock absorber

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Nucleus pulposus

36
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Outer ring of disk, tough

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Annulus fibrosus

37
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Nucleus compressed, anulus pushed partway into canal

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Slipped disc

38
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Nucleus bursts through anulus, leaks into canal, screaming pain

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Herniated disc

39
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Four treatments for herniated/slipped discs

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Physical therapy, needle respiration, surgery to remove protruding portion, surgery to remove entire disc and fuse two together

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