VI. Regions of the Vertebral Column: Cervical Region: A) Typical Cervical Vertebrae C3-C6: 4) Transverse Process. (Pg. 50)

Question 1

What osseous parts form the typical cervical vertebra transverse process?

Answer 1

costal element, anterior tubercle, costotransverse br, posterior tubercle, true transverse process

Question 2

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

Answer 2

anterior scalene, longus capitis, longus colli, anterior intertransversarii

Question 3

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

Answer 3

splenic cervicis, iliocostalis cervicis, longus Sinus cervicis, elevator scapula, middle scalene, posterior scalene, rotators and posterior intertransversarii

Question 4

What muscles will attach to the costotransverse bar?

Answer 4

middle scalene and posterior intertransversarii

Question 5

What produces the primary tension on the transverse process that will cause remodeling in the angerollter all and inferior directions?

Answer 5

cervical spinal nerves as they are directed naterolaterally and inferiorly to form the cervical and brachial plexuses

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

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

Answer 7

the carotid tubercle