Vertebral Column

Question 0

2 secondary curves

Answer 0

Develop over, cervical and lumbar

Question 1

2 primary curves

Answer 1

Born with, thoracic and sacral

Question 2

Bent away from you

Answer 2

Anteriorly concave

Question 3

Bent coming towards you

Answer 3

Anteriorly convex

Question 4

Over-pronounced thoracic curve, hunchback

Answer 4

Kyphosis

Question 5

Over-pronounced lumbar back, swayback

Answer 5

Lordosis

Question 6

Lateral curvature to entire column, side to side

Answer 6

Scoliosis

Question 7

How many bones do infants have?

Answer 7

33

Question 8

How many bones do adults have?

Answer 8

26

Question 9

The body

Answer 9

Centrum

Question 10

Composed of pedicle and lamina

Answer 10

Vertebral arch

Question 11

Incomplete arch

Answer 11

Spina bifida

Question 12

Comes straight up the centrum

Answer 12

Pedicle

Question 13

Connects arch

Answer 13

Lamina

Question 14

Contains spinal cord

Answer 14

Vertebral foramen or vertebral canal

Question 15

Passageways for spinal nerves

Answer 15

Intervertebral foramen or intervertebral notch

Question 16

What you feel when you feel your spine on your back

Answer 16

Spinous process

Question 17

All have transverse processes

Answer 17

C1-C7

Question 18

Have a bifid spinous process

Answer 18

C2-C6

Question 19

Has vertebrae prominent (extra tubercle)

Answer 19

C7

Question 20

Extra tubercle

Answer 20

Vertebrae prominen

Question 21

What does C7 have instead of a bifid?

Answer 21

Tubercle (vertebrae prominen)

Question 22

The atlas

Answer 22

C1

Question 23

What does C1 form?

Answer 23

Atlanto-occipital joint (yes motion)

Question 24

What is present in the C1?

Answer 24

Anterior and posterior arch

Question 25

The axis

Answer 25

C2

Question 26

What does the C2 form?

Answer 26

Atlanto-axial joint (no motion)

Question 27

What makes C2 different?

Answer 27

Dens or odontoid process

Question 28

The extra nubby on C2

Answer 28

Dens or odontoid process

Question 29

What does T1-T12 contain?

Answer 29

Costal facet and demi-facet

Question 30

Rib articulation, found on transverse process

Answer 30

Costal facet

Question 31

For rib articulation, superior and inferior

Answer 31

Demi-facet

Question 32

Fused spinous process

Answer 32

Median sacral crest

Question 33

Fused transverse processes

Answer 33

Lateral sacral crest

Question 34

Shock absorbers between successive centra

Answer 34

Intervertebral disks

Question 35

Jelly middle, shock absorber

Answer 35

Nucleus pulposus

Question 36

Outer ring of disk, tough

Answer 36

Annulus fibrosus

Question 37

Nucleus compressed, anulus pushed partway into canal

Answer 37

Slipped disc

Question 38

Nucleus bursts through anulus, leaks into canal, screaming pain

Answer 38

Herniated disc

Question 39

Four treatments for herniated/slipped discs

Answer 39

Physical therapy, needle respiration, surgery to remove protruding portion, surgery to remove entire disc and fuse two together