Muscles
Muscle & Nerves
Rotator Cuff Muscles
Osteology
Suboccipital Muscles
100

Which of the following muscles is classified as extrinsic?

a. Iliocostalis         b. Spinalis

c. Latissimus        d. Longissimus

What is Latissimus? c

100

Which muscles are not innervated by the anterior rami?

a.  Rhomboid minor                 

b.  Levator scapulae

c.  Serratus posterior 

d.  Latissimus dorsi

What is Serratus posterior muscles (superior & inferior)?  c   Innervated by intercostal nerves. 

100

Which of the following is not a rotator cuff muscle?

a. Infraspinatus             b. Teres major

c. Suprapinatus             d. Teres minor

What is teres major?  Acronym S.I.T.S (Supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis)

100

What muscle attaches to the lateral spine of the scapula and wraps around the acromion and lateral third of the clavicle? 

What is the deltoid?

100

What is the innervation of the 4 small muscles of the deep suboccipital region? 

What artery is found in the suboccipital triangle?

What are the names of the 4 small muscles of the deep suboccipital region?

What is the posterior ramps of C1, the suboccipital nerve?

What is the vertebral artery?

What is rectus capitis posterior major, rectus capitis posterior minor, obliques capitis inferior, obliquus capitis superior.

200

Which of the following muscles are classified as intrinsic muscles?

a.  Serratus anterior superior     b.  Rhomboid major

c.  Levator scapulae                  d.  Erector spinae?

What is Erector spinae?  d

200

What muscle is innervated by the accessory nerve?

a. Levator scapulae

b. Rhomboids

c. Trapezius

d. Latissimus

What is Trapezius? c  It is innervated by spinal accessory nerve (CN XI- cranial nerve 11) motor fibers. 

200

What rotator cuff muscle is innervated by the axillary nerve?

a. Deltoid                         b. Infraspinatus

c. Teres minor                  d. Supraspinatus

What is Teres minor? c

The Deltoid is innervated by the axillary nerve, but is not a rotator cuff muscle. 

200

What are the distal attachments of the rotator cuff muscles? 

What is the distal attachments for the teres major and latissimus dorsi?

What is the humerus?


What is the humerus?

200

1. Where does the spinal cord end in the canal?

2. What is the tapered end of the spinal cord called?

3. What arises from the tip of the question #2?

4. What are the distal long fibers on both sides of #2 and at the end of the spinal cord?

What is L1-L2?

What is conus medularis?

What is Filum terminale? A vestigial remnant

What is the Cauda Equina?

300

Which of the following muscles is not part of the erector spinae muscle group?

a.  Splenius               b.  Spinalis

c.  Longissimus          d.  Iliocostalis

What is Splenius? a

300

What muscle is not innervated by the dorsal scapula nerve?

a. Rhomboid minor                b.  Splenius cervices

c. Levator scapulae               d.  Rhomboid major

What is Splenius cervices? b 


The dorsal scapula innervates all of the muscles with attachments to the medial border of the scapula. 

300

Which two rotator cuff muscles are innervated by the suprascapular nerve?

a. Supraspinatus              b. Teres minor

c. Subscapularis              d.  Infraspinatus         

What are supraspinatus and infraspinatus muscles? a & d.

300

What landmark of the scapula looks like a bent finger or bird's beak and is located anteriorly and under the clavicle?

How many angles are noted on the scapula?

How many borders are found on the scapula?

How many fossas are found on the scapula?

What is the coracoid process?

What is 3? Superior, Inferior and Lateral angles

What is 3? Superior, Medial and Lateral borders

What is 3? Supraspinous, Infraspinous & Subscapular fossas. 

300

What is between every vertebral body except C1 & C2?

What is Intervertebral disc?

400

Which of the following muscles is not part of the Transversospinalis muscle group?

a. Levatores costarum      b.  Multifidus

c. Rotatores                     d. Semispinalis

What is Levatores costarum? a

400

What muscle is innervated by the Thoracodorsal Nerve? 

a.  Trapezius                 b. Splenius capitus

c.  Rhomboid                d. Latissimus dorsi

What is Latissimus dorsi? d


400

What bony landmark separates the supraspinatus and infraspinatus muscles?

What is spine of the scapula? 

400

Which vertebrae has the dens?

Which vertebrae has no body?

Which vertebrae have the foramen transversarium and what important structures travels though it?

Which vertebral foramen is larger, the atlas or the lumbar?

What is the axis?

What is the Atlas?

What is the cervical vertebrae C1-C6 and Vertebral arteries? The vertebral artery is missing in C7.

What is the atlas?

400

What are Intervertebral (IV) disc comprised of?

What is Anulus fibrosis (concentric ring) and Nucleus pulposus (fleshy core)?

500

Which of the following muscles are innervated by the posterior rami of spinal nerves?

a. Erector spinae           b.  Transversospinalis

c. Splenius                    d. Levatores costarum

What is all?  All 4 are correct.  All of the intrinsic muscles are innervated by the posterior rami. 

500

What is the fascia called at the low back that looks like a corset and is one of the origins to the Latissimus dorsi?

What is Thoracolumbar fascia?

500

What 3 muscles are located at the medial border of the scapula?

What 2 muscles are located at the lateral border of the scapula?

What are the rhomboid major, rhomboid minor and Levator scapula?

What are the teres major and teres minor muscles?

500

Which posterior arm muscle attaches to the scapula?

What is the triceps brachii muscle?  It has 3 heads (long, lateral and medial) and is located on the posterior humerus.  They are innervated by the radial nerve. 

500

What part of the vertebrae is removed when performing a laminectomy?

What is Spinous process and lamina?

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