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Lecture 4: Axial Skeleton Flashcards

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What are the functions of the Axial Skeleton?

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  • Supportive and protective framework for internal organs
  • Skull houses special sensory organs
  • Vertebral column and ribs provide extensive attachment for muscles moving the head neck, trunk and limbs
  • Thoracic cage performs movement for respiration
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What are the 3 bones in the ear?

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  • Malleus
  • Incus
  • Stapes
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What are the only bones fully formed at birth?

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The bones of the middle ear

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Where does the Hyoid bone sit?

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Under the mandible

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What is interesting about the Hyoid bone?

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It only articulates with muscles and ligaments

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What does the Nasal Concha do?

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Warms the air as you breath

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What is a Fossa?

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A depression in bone

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What does the Ramus of the Mandible articulate with?

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The temporal mandibular bone

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What are the parts of the Mandible?

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  • Body
  • Ramus
  • Coronoid process
  • Mandibular condyle
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What are the bones of the Neurocranium?

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  • Occipital
  • Temporal
  • Parietal
  • Sphenoid
  • Ethmoid
  • Frontal
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What are the bones of the Viscerocranium/face

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  • Mandible
  • Maxilla
  • Zygomatic
  • Palatine
  • Vomer
  • Nasal
  • Lacrimal
  • Inferior Nasal Concha
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What are the 4 cavities of the skull?

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  • Cranial cavity
  • Orbit
  • Nasal cavity
  • Oral cavity
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What is housed in the Cranial Cavity?

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The brain

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What are the two divisions of the Skull?

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  • Neurocranium/cranium

* Viscerocranium/face

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Which bones are part of the Neurocranium/Cranium?

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  • Occipital
  • Temporal
  • Parietal
  • Sphenoid
  • Ethmoid
  • Frontal
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Which bones are parts of the Viscerocranium/face?

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  • Mandible
  • Maxilla
  • Zygomatic
  • Palatine
  • Vomer
  • Nasal
  • Lacrimal
  • Inferior nasal concha
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How did the bones of the skull develop?

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Intramembranous ossification

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What is housed in the Oral cavity?

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Tongue

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What are the 4 Paranasal Sinuses?

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Frontal Sinus
Ethmoid air cells
Sphenoidal sinus
Maxillary sinus

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What are the 4 Paranasal sinuses lined with?

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Mucus

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What is the Fontanelle?

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The spot where two sutures join on the skull to form the babies soft spot

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What are the names of the Fontanelles?

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  • Anterior
  • Posterior
  • Sphenoid
  • Mastoid
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How many bones are in the Vertebral column?

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26 bones

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What are the 5 divisions of the Vertebrae?

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  • Cervical
  • Thoracic
  • Lumbar
  • Sacral
  • Coccygeal
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How many Cervical vertebrae are there?
7
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How many Thoracic vertebrae are there?
12
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How many Lumbar vertebrae are there?
5
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How many Sacral vertebrae are there?
5 fused to make 1 sacrum
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How many Coccygeal vertebrae are there?
3-5 fused to make one coccyx
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Which curves of the spinal cord change direction after birth?
Cervical and Lumbar
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What is the function of the Articular process of the Vertebrae?
It articulates with the vertebrae on top and below
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What is the function of the Vertebral Foramen?
It is where the spinal cord goes through
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What is the Intervertebral joint?
The intervertebral disc attached between two adjacent vertebrae (secondary cartilaginous joint)
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What kind of cartilage is the intervertebral joint made of?
Fibrocatilage
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What kind of joint is the Zygapophyseal joint?
A synovial joint
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What is the Zygapophyseal joint?
A joint between two adjacent articular processes (synovial joint) superior and inferior articular processes
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What does the Vertebral Canal house?
The spinal cord and meninges
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Where do the spinal nerves exit the spinal cord?
the Intervertebral foramen
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What occurs in Herniation?
A herniated intervertebral disc compresses a spinal nerve
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What is the outer part of the intervertebral disc?
Annulus fibrosus
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What is the innter part of the intervertebral disc?
Nucleus pulposus, more watery and contain more ground substance
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What is the size of the Vertebral cana in the Cervical vertebrae?
It is very large because at that point the spinal cord is very large
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What does the Transverse Foramen allow for?
Allows for the passage of vertebral artery going up to supply the brain
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Why do Cervical vertebrae have holes?
To allow for arteries to pass to be able to feed the brain
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What is different about the Spinous process of Cervical Vertebrae?
They are bifid (split in two)
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What does having a Bifid spinous process allow for?
The movement of the neck
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What is the exception to the Bifid spinous process of Cervical vertebrae?
C7 has a single long prominent spinous process
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Why does C7 have a single spinous process?
It serves as a transition to the thorax
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What are the names of the first 2 Cervical vertebrae?
* Atlas (C1) | * Axis (C2)
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What does C1 (Atlas) articulate with?
The condyle
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What is C1 lacking?
It lacks a body
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What does C2 have extra of?
It has a body and an extra process called a dens
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What is the Dens?
The extra process that C2 has
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What joint is at the Atlas?
A synovial joint
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What movement of the next does the Atlas allow?
Flexion of the neck to move yes or no
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What is the Joint that the Atlas has?
The Atlanto Occipital joint
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Describe the Atlanto-Occipital joint
A synovial joint between occipital condyles and C1 which allows flexion of the neck (up and down)
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What movement does the Atlanto-Occipital joint allow for?
Allows flexion of the neck (up and down)
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What is the joint between C1 and C2 known as?
The Atlanto-axial joint
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What is the Atlanto-Axial joint?
A synovial joint between C1 and C2 that allows the head to turn side to side
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What movement does the Atlanto-Axial joint allow for?
Movement of the head side to side
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What are all the cervical joints after C1 and C2 known as?
Zygapophyseal joints
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Describe Zygapophyseal joints?
They are Synovial joints sloped from anterior ro posterior
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What are the joints between vertebrae called?
Zygapophyseal joints
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What kind of Movement do Zygapophyseal joints allow for?
Lateral flexion
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How many Thoracic vertebrae are there?
12 Thoracic vertebrae
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What is each thoracic vertebrae associated with?
A rib
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Which vertebrae are associated with ribs?
Thoracic vertebrae
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Why do Thoracic vertebrae need two joints?
One is associated with the ribs and one is associated with the next vertebrae
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What are the two joints that Thoracic vertebrae have?
* Costovertebral joints | * Zygapophyseal joints
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What is the size of the Vertebral foramen in Thoracic vertebrae?
They have a smaller foramen for lesser amounts of spinal cord
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Describe the spinous process of Thoracic vertebrae?
It is NOT bifid it is just a singular process
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What is the slope Thoracic Vertebrae?
They slope down
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Why do Thoracic Vertebrae slope down?
To limit movement
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Describe the joints of the Thoracic Vertebrae?
They are vertical (straight up) to allow for rotation of the Thorax
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What are Costovertebral joints?
Two synovial joints between thoracic vertebra and associated rib
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What do Costal Facets allow for?
They allow the rib to move during respiration by changing thoracic cage volume
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What are the thoracic Zygapophyseal joints?
The joints between the Thoracic vertebrae that allow for some rotation of the thorax
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What type of joints are Costovertebral joints?
Synovial joints
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What are the three bones that make up the Sternum?
* Manubrium * Body * Xiphoid process
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What makes of the Thoracic cage?
* Sternum * Ribs and Costal Cartilage * Thoracic vertebrae
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What is the Xiphoid process?
The very end of the sternum
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How many ribs are there?
24 ribs
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What is the most common cartilage found in the body?
Hyaline cartilage
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What kind of cartilage is the Costal cartilage made of?
Hyaline cartilage
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What do the first 7 ribs attach to?
The Sternum
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What are the first 7 ribs known as?
True ribs
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What are true ribs?
Ribs 1-7 that attach to the sternum
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What are true ribs?
Ribs 1-7 that attach to the sternum
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What forms the Costal margin?
Where ribs 8-10 merge
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What are the False ribs?
Ribs 8, 9 and 10
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What do ribs 11-12 attach to?
Only to the thoracic vertebrae they have no cartilage
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What does the Head of the rib articulate with?
Thoracic vertebrae
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Where does the Tubercle of the rib attach to?
The facet of the transverse process
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What is in the Costal groove?
•Nerve •Artery •Vein That run under the rib from the intervertebral foramen
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Why is the Lumbar vertebrae body so large?
Because it supports a lot of the body weight
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Why do lumbar vertebrae have large processes?
For strong muscles
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What is the shape of Lumbar Facets?
They are pretty much curved
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What do the curved facets of lumbar vertebrae cause?
Very little rotation
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How many vertebrae did the sacrum have before fusing together?
5
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What is the Sacral Promontory?
The stage where the 5th lumbar vertebrae articulates with the Sacrum
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What is the Auricular surface?
The part of the Sacrum that articulates with the Pelvis
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