Axial Skeleton: Vertebral Column and Thoracic Cage

Question 1

How many vertebrae are there?

Answer 1

33

Question 2

How many vertebrae are movable?

Answer 2

26

Question 3

What is the purpose of the vertebral column?

Answer 3

Support and protection

Question 4

Why does the spine have curvatures?

Answer 4

To help center weight and shock absorbtion

Question 5

What is the name for lumbar curvature?

Answer 5

Lordosis

Question 6

What is the name of cervical curvature?

Answer 6

Kyphosis

Question 7

What part of the vertebrae is between the spinous process and transverse process?

Answer 7

Lamina

Question 8

What is between the transverse process and the body of a vertebrae?

Answer 8

Pedicles

Question 9

What allows the passage of spinal nerves?

Answer 9

Intervertebral foramen

Question 10

What medical procedure removes the back of the spine to access the spinal cord?

Answer 10

Laminectomy

Question 11

What limits the twisting of the vertebral column?

Answer 11

Interlocking of the superior and interior processes

Question 12

What does the Fibrocartilage disc do?

Answer 12

Shock absorption and to compress or elongate

Question 13

What is the name of the outer ring of Fibrocartilage?

Answer 13

Anulus fibrosus

Question 14

What passes through the spinous process?

Answer 14

Nuchal ligament

Question 15

How many cervical vertebrae are there?

Answer 15

7

Question 16

What is unique about the cervical vertebrae?

Answer 16

Has foramen in the transverse process and bifurcated spinous process

Question 17

What does a bifurcated spinous process mean?

Answer 17

The spinous process is split in two

Question 18

What is the other name of the C1 vertebrae?

Answer 18

Atlas

Question 19

The other name of the C2 vertebrae

Answer 19

Axis

Question 20

The other name of the C7 vertebrae

Answer 20

Vertebra prominens

Question 21

What joint makes the yes motion?

Answer 21

Atlanto-occipital joint

Question 22

What joint makes the no motion?

Answer 22

Odontoid process

Question 23

What is the articulation of the atlas and axis called?

Answer 23

Altantoaxial joint

Question 24

What is the defining feature of the C7 (Vertebra prominens)?

Answer 24

Large long spinous process

Question 25

How many thoracic vertebrae?

Answer 25

12

Question 26

What attaches to the thoracic vertebrae?

Answer 26

Ribs

Question 27

What part of the thoracic vertebrae do the ribs attach?

Answer 27

Costal facets and transverse process

Question 28

What is special about ribs 11 and 12?

Answer 28

They don't have tubercles and they are floating

Question 29

Where does the adult spinal cord end?

Answer 29

L1

Question 30

How many lumbar vertebrae?

Answer 30

5

Question 31

What medical procedure happens between the L3 and L4?

Answer 31

Spinal tap

Question 32

Which type of vertebrae is the largest?

Answer 32

Lumbar

Question 33

What extra vertebrae can cause back problems?

Answer 33

6th lumbar

Question 34

How many vertebrae in the sacrum?

Answer 34

5

Question 35

Where does the sacrum articulate?

Answer 35

Os coxae

Question 36

What part of the sacrum articulates with the os coxae?

Answer 36

Auricular joint

Question 37

What is the name of the joint between the sacrum and the os coxae?

Answer 37

Sacroiliac joint

Question 38

How many Coccyx vertebrae?

Answer 38

4

Question 39

What is the more well known name for the coccyx?

Answer 39

Tail bone

Question 40

What natural process can damage the coccyx?

Answer 40

Childbirth

Question 41

What makes up the thoracic cage?

Answer 41

Ribs, thoracic vertebrae, sternum, and costal cartilage

Question 42

What attaches to the lowest rib?

Answer 42

Diaphram

Question 43

What notch is at the superior portion of the manubrium?

Answer 43

Jugular (super sternal) notch

Question 44

What is directly superior to the super sternal notch?

Answer 44

Suprasternal fossa

Question 45

What is the name of where the second set of ribs attach?

Answer 45

Sternal angle

Question 46

What can happen if you hit the xiphoid?

Answer 46

It can puncture the liver

Question 47

How many ribs are there?

Answer 47

24

Question 48

How many true rib pairs?

Answer 48

7

Question 49

How many false ribs?

Answer 49

6

Question 50

How many floating rib pairs?

Answer 50

2

Question 51

What makes the floating ribs unique?

Answer 51

They don't attack to the sternum

Question 52

What do all the false ribs have in common?

Answer 52

They share the costal cartilage attachment

Question 53

What is important about Otzis ribs?

Answer 53

Didn't have 12th pair of ribs

Question 54

What can result from a damaged spinal cord?

Answer 54

You can't breathe

Question 55

What is a flail chest?

Answer 55

3 or more adjacent rib fractures

Question 56

What is an example of a neural tube defect?

Answer 56

Spinal bifida

Question 57

What muscles support the spine anteriorly?

Answer 57

Rectus abdominis

Question 58

What muscle supports the spine posteriorly?

Answer 58

Erector spinae