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Intervertebral Disk Flashcards

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Intervertebral Disk

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Located between vertebral body and endplates

  • absorb shock, enable motion
  • avascular, do not have own blood supply, get nutrition from diffusion across endplates
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Disks in spine

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C2/C3 to L5/S1

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Annulus Fibrous

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Outer ring of Disk, criss crossing bands of colleges like tire tread

  • attaches between bodies of each vertebrae
  • anterior twice as thick as posterior
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Nucleus Pulposus

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Gel filled center of disk

-mostly fluid, absorbed during night as you lie down, push out during day as move upright

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