Day 18 (C2/Axis/Epistropheus, C7/Vertebra Prominens)

Question 1

What osseous parts of the typical cervical transverse process are present at C2?

Answer 1

costal element, posterior tubercle and true transverse process

Question 2

What is the gender variation for the transverse diameter of C2?

Answer 2

males: fifty-seven millimeters and females: about fifty millimeters

Question 3

What muscles attach to the transverse process at C2?

Answer 3

levator scapulae, middle scalene, splenius cervicis, longissimus cervicis and intertransversarii

Question 4

What muscles attach to the spinous process of C2?

Answer 4

rectus capitis posterior major, obliquus capitis inferior, spinalis cervicis, semispinalis cervicis, multifidis, rotators and interspinalis muscles

Question 5

What names may be given to C7?

Answer 5

vertebra prominens and vertebral prominence

Question 6

What is the name given to the topographical elevation observed at the base of the neck?

Answer 6

vertebral prominence

Question 7

What name is given only to C7?

Answer 7

vertebra prominens

Question 8

In what percent of men and of women does C7 become the vertebral prominence?

Answer 8

men: eighty-six percent
women: seventy-nine percent

Question 9

What is the segment and gender bias for vertebrae other than C7 becoming the vertebral prominence?

Answer 9

C6 is more common in females and T1 is more common in males

Question 10

How many joint surfaces are present at the vertebral body of C7?

Answer 10

eight

Question 11

What muscle(s) attaches to the vertebral body of C7?

Answer 11

longus colli muscle

Question 12

What are the osseous parts of the transverse process of C7?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What muscles attach to the transverse process of C7?

Answer 13

middle scalene, iliocostalis thoracis, longissimus cervicis, semispinalis capitis, rotators, intertransversarii and levator costarum brevis

Question 14

What is the orientation of the superior articular facet of C7?

Answer 14

backward, upward, medial (BUM)

Question 15

What is the orientation of the inferior articular facet of C7?

Answer 15

forward, medial, downward (ForMeD)

Question 16

What muscles will attach to the articular process of C7?

Answer 16

longissimus cervicis, longissimus capitis, semispinalis cervicis and multifidis

Question 17

What muscles attach to the spinous process of C7?

Answer 17

trapezius, rhomboid minor, serratus posterior superior, splenius capitis, spinalis capitis, spinalis cervicis, semispinalis thoracis, multifidis, rotators and interspinalis

Question 18

What ligaments attach to the spinous process of C7?

Answer 18

ligamentum nuchae and interspinous ligaments