Vetebral Column
How many vertebrae are in the vertebral column?
What is 33?
What is an abnormal lateral curvature of the vertebral column?
What is scoliosis?
What are the joints between vertebral bodies called?
What are intervertebral discs?
What is the shallow surface of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus?
What is the glenoid cavity?
This muscle is innervated by the long thoracic nerve and protracts/laterally rotates the scapula
What is serratus anterior?
Which region has vertebrae with transverse foramina for the vertebral artery?
What is cervical?
This thoracic curvature, often from age, is called?
What is kyphosis?
What are the joints between articular processes called?
What is facet joints?
What is a common fracture site on the humerus, and what nerve can it damage?
What is the surgical neck and axillary nerve?
What 4 muscles make up the rotator cuff?
What are the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis?
Motion only occurs between which vertebral regions?
What are the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar regions?
This lumbar curvature is called?
What is lordosis?
What are the two layers of the IV disc?
Anulus fibrosus and nucleus pulposus
What is the depression between the greater and lesser tubercles of the humerus that acts as an insertion point?
What is the bicipital groove?
Damage to this nerve causes winged scapula
What is the long thoracic nerve?
These two junctions are common injury sites due to the transition from mobile to rigid
What are the cervicothoracic and thoraculumbar junctions?
What are the two primary curvatures, and when are they developed?
What are the thoracic and sacral, and the fetal period?
On what plane do cervical vertebrae facets sit?
What is the horizontal plane?
These two tubercles sit superior and inferior to the glenoid cavity and originate the bicep and tricep
What are the supraglenoid tubercle and the infraglenoid tubercle?
This muscle inititaes the first 15 degrees of arm abduction before the deltoid takes over
What is the supraspinatus?
What is the order of passage for a needle in a spinal tap?
What is the skin, supraspinous ligament, interspinous ligament, ligamentum flavum, epidural space, dura mater, and finally through the arachnoid mater into the subarachnoid space?
What are the two secondary curvatures, when are they developed, and what is their degree?
What are the cervical and lumbar curvatures, postnatally, and 2 degrees?
What joint is involved in yes movements and what is joint is involved in no movements
What is the atlanto-occipital joint? What is the atlanto-axial joint?
This notch at the coracoid process is called what and what nerve does it give passage to?
The suprascapular notch and suprascapular nerve
This space is bounded by teres, triceps, surgical neck, and has the axillary nerve
What is the quadrangular space?