Spinal Column

Question 1

How many bones in the human body?

Answer 1

206 bones

Question 2

How many bones in the axial skeleton?

Answer 2

80

Question 3

How many bones in the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 3

126

Question 4

What is the axial skeleton?

Answer 4

skull, thoracic cage, and vetebral column

Question 5

What is the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 5

arms, legs, pectoral girdle, and pelvic girdle

Question 6

How many vetebrae in the spine?

Answer 6

33

Question 7

How many movable vetebrae in the spine?

Answer 7

24

Question 8

What is atlas?

Answer 8

the first cervical vetebrae that holds up the head; aka C1

Question 9

What is axis?

Answer 9

the second cervical vetebrae; aka C2 aka epistropheus

Question 10

How many cervical vertebrae are there?

Answer 10

7

Question 11

How many thoracic vertebrae are there?

Answer 11

12

Question 12

How many lumbar vertebrae are there?

Answer 12

5

Question 13

How many bones in the sacrum?

Answer 13

5 (fused)

Question 14

How many bones in the coccyx?

Answer 14

4 (fused)

Question 15

What is atypical vertebrae?

Answer 15

C1 and C2;

Question 16

What is the joint between sacrum and coocyx?

Answer 16

sacrococcygeal joint

Question 17

What are facet joints?

Answer 17

gliding/planar/ zygapophyseal (Z) joints that connect vetebrae

Question 18

What are primary curves?

Answer 18

kyphosis (from baby); thorasic and sacral curvatures

Question 19

What are secondary curves?

Answer 19

lordosis, cervical and lumbar

Question 20

Know parts of atlas?

Answer 20

• anterior arch with tubercle
• posterior arch with tubercle
• lateral mass
• transverse process
• transverse foramen (vertebral artery)

Question 21

Parts of axis?

Answer 21

• odontoid or dens
• transverse foramen
• transverse ligament

Question 22

What are pedicles?

Answer 22

posts of bone coming off of the body

Question 23

What are pedicles?

Answer 23

posts of bone coming off of the body of the vetebrae

Question 24

What are lamina?

Answer 24

parts of the vetebrae between the transverse process and the spinous process

Question 25

What is the intervetebral foramen?

Answer 25

a whole in the vetebrae where nerves go

Question 26

What is the coccygeal cornu?

Answer 26

the corners on the triangle of the coccyx

Question 27

What is the sacral hiatus?

Answer 27

end of sacrum where the nerve leaves

Question 28

What are ala?

Answer 28

wings of sacrum

Question 29

What is the sacral promintory?

Answer 29

a prominent ridge in the front of the sacrum