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General spine & vert
Gneral spine and vertibrae facts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many vertibrae are in the spinal column? | 33; 7 cervicle, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral and 4 coccyx |
| What is a primary curve? | Kyphotic, thoracic and sacral; concave anteriorly |
| What is a secondary curve? | Lordotic, cervicale and luimbar; convex anteriorly |
| When does cervicle and lumbar lordotic curves begin to form? | Cervicle; when the infact strarts to hold up their head. Lumbar; when the cild begins to walk |
| What is the thick middle part of a vertibrae called? | Body |
| What are peddicles? | Feet come off the body posteriorly |
| What is a lamina? | Angle that comes off the pedicles and goes to the spinous process |
| What is the spinous process? | Pointy part coming off the bone posteriorly |
| Where is the vertibral foramen? | Hole in the middle of vertibrae |
| What is the transverse process? | Structure coming off the pedicles laterally |
| Superior articular process is? | Structure goes up from the lamina |
| Inferior articular process is? | Structure coming down from the lamina |
| Zygopohaseal joint is? | Where an inferior and superior articular process meet from two separate vertibrae. |
| What is an articular pillar? | Stack of zygophaseal joints, vertibrae |