Thoracic Cage & Wall Flashcards
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Give reason: the thoracic inlet is oblique
Due to obliquity of 1st rib
Describe the structure of intervertebral foramen and structures passing through it.
Formed from articulation of seperior and infecrior notches (adjacent) of pedicle.
Spinal nerves and vessels pass through it
Contents of vertebral foramen
Spinal cord and meninges
Compare articular processes of thoracic vertebra.
Superior: project upwards, articular surface directed backwards.
Inferior: project downwards, articular surface directed forwards.
Type of joint between costal facets and heads of ribs.
Plane synovial
Type of joint between transverse process and tubercle of ribs.
Plane synovial joint
Vertebrae where their transverse process lacks facets.
11th & 12th
Each typical vertebra articulates with ……. & …….. .
The corresponding rib and the one below.
The thoracic vertebra resembling cervical v having complete superior facet.
First T.V.
Vertebra identical to typical except it lacks inferior demifacet
9th T.V.
Type of joints between articular processes.
Plane synovial joint
Lamina connected by ……. , spines connected by ……., their tips connected by …….. & transverse processes connected by …… .
Ligamentum flavum
Interspinous ligaments
Supraspinous liagment
Intertransverse ligament
True ribs are …..
False ribs are ……
Floating ribs are …….
1st-7th
8th-12th
11&12th
The free anterior end of floating ribs is
Embedded in the muscles of the abdominal wall
The crest of head of rib is connected to the IVD by ……. . The costo-vertebral joints are ……. .
Articular ligaments
Plane synovial
Structure attached to lateral part of tubercle of rib.
Lateral costo-transverse ligament
Site and contents of costal groove
Inner surface of rib, it contains vein, artery & nerve.
Neck of first rib is anteriorly related to ..
- Sympathetic chain with stellate ganglion
- Superior intercostal artery
- Ventral ramus of 1st thoracic nerve
Structures attached to inner surface of first rib
Scalenus anterior muscle
Suprapleural membrane
Lateral border of 1st rib gives attachment to
Serratus anterior
Mention structure present in grooves of upper surface of 1st rib
Anterior groove: subclavian vein
P. groove: subclavian artery + lower trunk of brachial plexus
Anterior to groove of subclavian vein there is ….. & ….. .
Posterior to groove of subclavian artery is …
- Costo-clavicular ligament, subclavius muscle
2. Scalenus medius muscle
Dagger-like rib
12th rib
Describe the clincal significance of lumbar rib
- Confuse the identification of vertebral levels
- Interpreted as fractured transverse process of L1 vertebra