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100

The starting point for cortical screws.

What is the pars?

100

In a sheep study IdentiTi demonstrated X times faster bone growth vs. 

What is 2x faster bone growth? 

100

Who defined the TLIF procedure? (first and last)

Who is Dr. Juergen Harms? 

100

What is the L5 nerve root and what is a spondylolysis?

100

Name this common surgical instrument 

What is a Leksell rongeur? 

200

Large tooth like bone in the cervical spine

What is the dens or odontoid process? 

200

SafeOp monitors SSEPs by stimulating ____ and recording ____

What are "stimulate distally and records proximally?"

200

The first spinal surgery ever performed 

What is a laminectomy? 

200

Name the film, view and type of vertebral body 

What is an axial CT of a lumbar vertebral body? 

200

When a vertebra completely displaces over the one below it

What is spondyloptosis?

300

Muscle groups innervated by a single spinal nerve level

What are myotomes?

300

The maximum amount of coronal bend for both PTP and LTP Patient Positioners.

What is approx. 25 degrees in each direction (PTP) and 15 degrees (LTP)

300

A form of decompression therapy that relieves pressure on the spine can be traced by to almost 3500 B.C

What is Spinal Traction? 

300

What is Sacral Iliac Joint and Ilium? 

300

Abnormal changes in the bone marrow of the vertebral endplates, which are visible on an MRI scan, and are often associated with low back pain, typically linked to degenerative disc disease

Modic Changes

400

Small ___ in the ___ in the cervical spine provide a passageway for ____ to carry blood to the ____

What is... Small foramina in the transverse processes in the cervical spine provide a passageway for arteries to carry blood to the brain? 

400

This product contains all 3 essential components of bone remodeling

What is AlphaGraft Cellular Bone Matrix?

400
Tigers wood underwent what type of procedure with this companys products

What is an ALIF with Centinel Spines interfixated device? 

400

Define the film, levels of stabilization, and the fixation system used. 



What are radiographs, L4-S1 and Medtronic PEEK Rod System? 

400

relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment vs relating to or denoting any disease or condition which arises spontaneously or the cause is unknown 

What is iatrogenic vs. idiopathic? 

500

The longest nerve in the body 

What is the saphenous nerve? 

500

Invictus TL + OCT is cleared for use with this computer assisted image guidance system when paired as this screw system

What are Medtronics Stealth OARM and Solera? 

500

A versatile and side loading modular hook-and-screw system for translation (reducing the spine to the rod) correction emerged in the 1990s (name and company)

What was USS universal spine system and who is Depuy Synthes? 

500

Define the red area and procedure that uses it as a guide for access


What is Kambins triangle and TLIF? 

500

Scoliosis is derived from the Greek word meaning

What is crooked? 

600

Weight bearing bone of the hip

What is the acetabular sourcil?

600

All of the ATEC's commercially/alpha launched expandable interbody systems

Calibrate PSX, LTX, CCX, Ascend TL VBR, Ascend C VBR

600

British surgeon and scientist pioneered antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine 

Who is Dr. Joseph Lister? 

600

Define the anomaly and what it causes


What is a hemi vertebral body and congenital scoliosis? 

600

Number of patient scans EOS can complete in 1 day

What are 150 scans?