A Typical Vertebrae

Question 1

arch forms from joining of posterior extensions

Answer 1

vertebral arch

Question 2

bridge

Answer 2

pedicle

Question 3

two parts of vertebral arch

Answer 3

pedicle and lamina

Question 4

canal for spinal cord to pass

Answer 4

vertebral foramen

Question 5

lateral projections from vertebral arch

Answer 5

transverse processes

Question 6

single projection from posterior vertebral arch

Answer 6

spinous process

Question 7

what is the spinous process

Answer 7

fused lamina

Question 8

where do muscles attach?

Answer 8

transverse and spinous process

Question 9

what does the superior and inferior projections allow vertebrae to do?

Answer 9

form joints with adjacent vertebrae

Question 10

paired projections lateral to vertebral foramen

Answer 10

superior or inferior articular process

Question 11

what numbers represent the cervical vertebrae?

Answer 11

C1-C7

Question 12

what does the cervical vertebrae form?

Answer 12

neck region

Question 13

which of the cervical vertebrae are different?

Answer 13

atlas and axis (the 1st two)

Question 14

what does the atlas allow you to do?

Answer 14

nod yes

Question 15

unique characteristics of the atlas

Answer 15

has no body

Question 16

acts as a pivot for rotation of atlas and skull

Answer 16

axis

Question 17

large upright processes are called what and do what

Answer 17

dens; acts as a pivot point

Question 18

what allows you to indicate no?

Answer 18

dens

Question 19

C3-C7 are called what

Answer 19

“typical” cervical vertebrae

Question 20

what is special about the typical vertabrae/

Answer 20

smallest and lightest vertebrae

Question 21

spinous processes of the typical vertebrae are what

Answer 21

short and divided into two branches

Question 22

transverse processes of typical vertebrae contain what

Answer 22

foramina (opening) in which the vertebral arteries pass through on the way to the brain

Question 23

T1-T12

Answer 23

thoracic vertebrae

Question 24

in comparison to the cervical the thoracic vertebrae are

Answer 24

larger

Question 25

what is special about the thoracic vertebrae?

Answer 25

only vertebrae to artculate with the ribs

Question 26

the body of the thoracic is what

Answer 26

heart-shaped

Question 27

the two costal facets of the thoracic vertebrae do what

Answer 27

receive the heads of the ribs

Question 28

the transverse processes of the thoracic vertebrae do what

Answer 28

articulate with the nearby knoblike tubercles of the ribs

Question 29

what does the thoracic vertebrae’s spinous process look like?

Answer 29

long and hooked downward; looks like a giraffe’s head from the side

Question 30

L1-L5

Answer 30

lumbar vertabrae

Question 31

the bodies of the lumbar vertebrae are what

Answer 31

blocklike

Question 32

spinous processes of lumbar vertebrae

Answer 32

short, hatchet-shaped, make them look like a moose head from the top

Question 33

most of the tress of the vertebral column occurs in what

Answer 33

lumbar region

Question 34

how is the sacrum formed?

Answer 34

fusion of five vertebrae

Question 35

what does the sacrum articulate with?

Answer 35

L5 and inferiorly connects with the coccyx

Question 36

the sacrum’s wing like alae articulate laterally with the hip bones to form what joints

Answer 36

sacroiliac joints

Question 37

forms the posterior wall of the pelvis

Answer 37

sacrum

Question 38

end of the spinal cord

Answer 38

sacral hiatus

Question 39

how is the coccyx formed?

Answer 39

fusion of 3-5 vertebrae

Question 40

shape of the coccyx

Answer 40

irregular

Question 41

what is the coccyx?

Answer 41

human “tailbone”

Question 42

disc like weight-bearing part of the vertebra the faces anteriorly in the vertebral column

Answer 42

the body