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 |