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Chapter 17 words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| atlas | the C1 vertebrae; a ring like structure with no vertebral body and a very short spinous process |
| axis | the C2 vertebrae; the ertebrae on which the atlas rotates so the can turn from side to side |
| dens | a tooth or toothlike structure or process; the odontoid process of the axis |
| facet | the articular surface of interertebral joints; are located oneach of the four articular processes that extend superiorly and inferiorly from the vertebral arch |
| intervertebral disk | a pad of fibrocartilage between vertebral bodies that cushions vertebral motion and absorbs shock |
| kyphotic curve (kyphosis) | a posterior convex curvature of the spine |
| lordotic curve (lordosis) | an anterior convex curvature of the spine |
| scoliosis | an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine |
| stenosis | narrowing of a passage way, such as an intervertebral foramen narrowing of a passage way, such as an intervertebral foramen |
| vertebral body | the block like anterior portion of the vertebra |
| vertebral foramen | hole in the right of the vertebra that allows passage for the spinal cord |
| vertebral notches | the concave superior and inferior surfaces of the pedicles |
| intervertebral foramina | the spaces formed by joining with the vertebral notches above and below which allows passage of spinal nerves and blood vessels |
| zygapophyseal joints | the process that extends from the verteral that form gliding (diarthroidal) joint |
| nucleus pulposis | soft and pulpy center of the intervertebral disks |
| anulus fibrosis | tough outer covering of the intervertebral disks |
| articular pillar | the bones of the articular process for a column |
| transverse foramen | a hole in the transverse process that form a passage way for artery and veins |
| costal/costoertebra joints | joint that are formed by the facets that articulate with the ribs |
| pars interarticularis | the narrow segment of bone between the superior and inferior articular processes |
| scottie dog | a configuration that is obtained when the lumbar spine is radiographed in the oblique projection correctly |
| alae | the lateral porions of the first sacral segment and are wing like structures |
| coccygeal cornua | two small bony projections extend superiorly the posterior aspect of the coccyx |
| sacral cornua | two bony projections of the extending from the sacrum |
| sacralization of L5 | when one or both of the spinous processes of L5 become fused |
| lumbarization | sixth lumbar vertebra |
| spina bifida | when the posterior portionsof the neural arched fail to cloe during embyonic development |
| spina bifida occulta | when the spina bifida is insignificant and procuces not symptoms |
| spina bifida vera | when the spina bifida defect is quite larger, leaving the cord unprotected |
| compression fracture | when the bone is compresed causing a wedge |
| spondylo | vertebra |
| spondylosis | refers to fixantion or fusion of vertebrae |
| spondylitis (Potts disease) | inflamation of the spine; term is often applied specifically to tuberculosis disease of the vertebrae |
| spondylolysis | the break down of the structure of the bone; occurs with osteoporosies, with somemetastatic lesions andwith other conditions that cause atropy and bony destructive |
| spondylolisthesis | the anterior displacement of one ertebra on anothercommonly a L5-S1 and is caused by a defect or a fracture of the pars interarticularis or the pedicle |
| spondyloschisis | the term for congenital fissure (split or cleft) |
| degernatie disk disease | when joint becomes inflammed and the surrounding bony structures show sclerotic (hardened) irregular bone margins with hypertrophic tipping and spurring |
| disk herniation/herniated nucleous pulposes (HNP) | slipped disk; a condition where the annulus fibrosuses ruptures and the nucleus is forced into the area posterior to the disk space |
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