Nerves and Spine

Question 1

Primary curvatures

Answer 1

Thorascic and Sacral

Question 2

Secondary curvatures

Answer 2

Cervical and Lumbar

Question 3

How many cervical vertebrae

Answer 3

7

Question 4

How many Thoracic vertebrae

Answer 4

12

Question 5

How many Lumbar vertebrae

Answer 5

5

Question 6

How many sacral vertebrae

Answer 6

5 fused vertebrae

Question 7

How many coccal vertebrae

Answer 7

4

Question 8

Hunch back

Answer 8

Kyphosis

Question 9

sway back

Answer 9

Lordosis

Question 10

Curved back

Answer 10

Scoliosis

Question 11

What is in the vertebral canal

Answer 11

spinal cord

Question 12

Where do spinal nerves exit the spinal column

Answer 12

the intervertebral foramen

Question 13

Where does the disc sit and what is the structures function

Answer 13

vertebral body and load bearing

Question 14

Vertebral arch components and location

Answer 14

Pedicle: Small feet
Lamina: Arching area

Question 15

Name and locate the 4 processes

Answer 15

Transverse: off to the side
Spinous: Spine
Inferior and superior articular process

Question 16

What are the vertebral notches

Answer 16

form the intervertebral foramen

Question 17

What is the Atlas missing

Answer 17

Body

Question 18

Axis special prominence

Answer 18

Dens

Question 19

What do all cervical vertebrae have?

Answer 19

transverse foramen

Question 20

What is C7’s special name

Answer 20

prominens

Question 21

How do you identify Thoracic vertebrae

Answer 21

Spinous processes slope inferiorly

Costal facets for rib articulation

Question 22

How do you identify Lumbar vertabrae

Answer 22

Large bodies
blunt spinous process
long slender transverse process

Question 23

What is the sacral promontory

Answer 23

Inward curving anterior edge

Question 24

What is the sacral ala

Answer 24

“wings” of the sacrum

Question 25

Holes in sacrum

Answer 25

Anterior and posterior faoramen

Question 26

Absence of posterior sacrum

Answer 26

sacral hiatus

Question 27

tube in the center of the sacrum

Answer 27

sacral canal

Question 28

What is the concentric rings of a disc

Answer 28

anulus fibrosus

Question 29

What is the semi solid center of a disc

Answer 29

Nucleus pulposus

Question 30

atlas and occipital joint

Answer 30

atlanto-occipital joint

Question 31

atlas and axis joint

Answer 31

atlanto-axial joint

Question 32

joints fromed by the two articular processes

Answer 32

facet joints

Question 33

Where is gray matter in the spinal cord?

Answer 33

The middle forming the dorsal, ventral, and lateral horns

Question 34

Where are the lateral horns?

Answer 34

T1-L2 and S2-S4

Question 35

Where is the white matter in the spine?

Answer 35

Everywhere else

Question 36

what is the largest drainiage vein in the spinal column?

Answer 36

the anterior internal vertebral venous plexus

Question 37

What is the central canal

Answer 37

CSF flows through the ceter of the spinal cord

Question 38

What is the tapered lower level of the spinal cord called

Answer 38

the conus medullaris

Question 39

What is the single cord that anchors the spinal cord and helps prevent twisting

Answer 39

the filum terminale

Question 40

what is the grouping of spinal nerves and nerve rootlets near the base of the spinal cord

Answer 40

the cauda equina