Spinal anatomy Study Guide questions Flashcards

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*What are the four basic tissues of the human body?

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ANS: epithelial, muscle, neural & connective tissues

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*What is the function of each type of bone cell?

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ANS: osteoblast-form bone; osteocyte-maintain or nurture bone; osteoclast-remodel bone

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*What is the primary constituent of the ground substance?

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ANS: glycosaminoglycans

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*What is the principal type of protein fiber in bone?

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ANS: collagen type I

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*What is the most frequently described deposit in bone?

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ANS: hydroxyapatite

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*Bone is also the repository for what additional ions?

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ANS: sodium, magnesium, fluoride, lead, strontium & radium

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*What three responses of “living” bone were stressed in class?

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it has the ability to heal, to remodel under stressors such as anxiety, tension or pressure and to age

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*Bone is the embryological derivative of which specific connective tissues?

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ANS: mesenchyme and/or cartilage

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What is the name given to the pattern of ossification in mesenchyme?

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ANS: intramembranous ossification

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What is the timing for the appearance of intramembranous ossification?

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ANS: from the second to third month in utero

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What part of the axial skeleton is primarily formed by intramembranous ossification?

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ANS: the skull

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What is the name given to the pattern of ossification in cartilage?

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ANS: endochondral ossification

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What is the timing for the appearance of ossification in cartilage?

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ANS: from the second to fifth month in utero

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Which skull bones are ossified by both endochondral and intramembranous ossification?

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ANS: the mandible, sphenoid, temporal & occipital bones

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Which bone of the appendicular skeleton is formed by both endochondral and intramembranous ossification?

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ANS: the clavicle

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What are the names given to the centers of ossification based on time of appearance?

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ANS: primary centers of ossification appear before birth

secondary centers of ossification appear after birth

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Mature bone is described as being composed of what areas based on bone density?

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ANS: cortical or compact bone and spongy, cancellous or trabecular bone

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What is the name of the outer fibro-cellular covering of bone?

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ANS: the periosteum

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What is the name given to the fibro-cellular lining of bone?

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ANS: the endosteum

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Differences in the number or morphology of vertebrae within the population based on male and female variation is identified as which type of variation?

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ANS: sexual dimorphism or gender variation

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Differences in the number or morphology of vertebrae within the population based on age or developmental variation is identified as which type of variation?

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ANS: ontogenetic variation

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Differences in the number or morphology of vertebrae within the population based on ethnicity or locational variation is identified as which type of variation?

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ANS: geographic variation or population based variation

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Differences in the number or morphology of vertebrae within the population based on the uniqueness between individuals is identified as which type of variation?

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ANS: idiosyncratic variation

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What are the six more commonly used classifications of normal bone?

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ANS: long bones, short bones, flat bones, irregular bones, paranasal sinus or pneumatic bones and sesamoid bones

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25
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Which classifications of bone are characteristic of the appendicular skeleton?

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ANS: long bones, short bones and sesamoid bones

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What are examples of short bones?

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ANS: most of the bones of the carpus and tarsus

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What is the characteristic of sesamoid bone?

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ANS: the bone develops within a tendon

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What are consistent examples of sesamoid bones?

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ANS: patella and pisiform

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Which classifications of bone are characteristic of the axial skeleton?

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ANS: flat bones, irregular bones and paranasal sinus or pneumatic bones

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What are examples of pneumatic bone?

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ANS: frontal, ethmoid, maxilla, sphenoid & temporal

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What bones contain paranasal sinuses?

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ANS: frontal, ethmoid, maxilla & sphenoid

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What are the classifications given to abnormal bone stressed in Spinal Anatomy?

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ANS: accessory and heterotopic bone

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What is the name given to bone formed from existing bone?

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ANS: accessory bone

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What are examples of accessory bone?

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ANS: para-articular processes and bony spurs of vertebrae

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What is the name given to bone formed in a non-bone location?

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ANS: heterotopic bone

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What are examples of heterotopic bone?

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ANS: calcific deposits in the pineal gland, heart, and ligaments

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What are the four basic surface feature categories?

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ANS: elevations, depressions, tunnels or passageways & facets

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When do the surface features of bone become prominent?

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ANS: during and after puberty

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What are the types of osseous elevations?

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ANS: linear, rounded and sharp

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What are the types of Osseous linear elevation?

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ANS: the line, ridge and crest

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What are the types of rounded osseous elevations?

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ANS: tubercle, protuberance, trochanter, tuber or tuberosity and malleolus

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What are the categories of sharp osseous elevations?

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ANS: spine and process

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What are the categories of osseous depressions?

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ANS: spine and process

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What are the categories of osseous depressions?

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ANS: linear and rounded depressions

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What are the categories of osseous linear depressions?

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ANS: notch or incisure, groove, and sulcus

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What are the categories of rounded osseous depressions?

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ANS: the fovea and fossa

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What are the names given to openings on the surface of bone?

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ANS: ostium or orifice and hiatus

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What is the definition of an osseous hiatus?

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ANS: an irregular opening on the surface of bone

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What are the names given to osseous ostia which completely penetrate bone?

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ANS: foramen or canal

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What is the name given to an Ostium which does not completely penetrate through a region of bone but appears as a blind-ended passageway?

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ANS: meatus

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What are the categories of osseous facets?

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ANS: flat facets and rounded facets

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What are the categories of rounded osseous facets?

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ANS: articular heads and articular condyles

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How many bones form the typical adult appendicular skeleton?

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INS: 126 bones

54
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How many bones form the typical adult axial skeleton?

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ANS: 80 bones

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What bones form the axial skeleton?

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ANS: the skull, hyoid, vertebral column, sternum and ribs

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What is the total number of bones forming the typical adult skull?

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ANS: 28 bones

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What is the name given to the adult skull minus the mandible?

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ANS: the cranium

58
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What is the neurocranium?

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ANS: the bones that support or protect the brain

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How many bones form the typical adult neurocranium?

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ANS: 8 bones

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What bones form the neurocranium of the typical adult skull?

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ANS: the frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, sphenoid and ethmoid

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How many bones form the facial skeleton (splanchnocranium or visceral skeleton)?

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ANS: the bones that support the face or front of the head

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What bones form the facial skeleton?

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ANS: mandible, vomer, nasal, maxilla, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine and Zygomatic