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| Concave anteriorly, contact ribs at 2 places; head of rib at body of 2 vertebrae, tubercle of rib with transverse process; heart-shaped body, smaller and rounder foramen, spinous processes angle downwards and overlap below it; kyphosis |
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| Concave posteriorly, lordosis; kidney-shaped body; short square spinous process projecting superiorly; triangular foramen; location of LP or spinal tap |
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| Site of sternoclavicular joint (saddle joint); only joint connecting upper limb and axial skeleton |
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| Short transverse processes with opening (transverse foramen-transmits vertebral vessels to brain), short bifid spinous process in Caucasians, small vertebral body, large foramen |
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| Vertebra prominens; distinctive long and prominent spinous process, first one palpable from surface of skin, not bifurcated, ends in a tubercle |
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| C1, no vertebral body, rotates around axis |
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| C2, dens/odontoid process sticks up, allows for pivot joint; axis for rotation, atlantoaxial joint |
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| Sticking out of shoulder bone; origin of deltoid muscle, insertion of trapezius muscle; attaches to coracoid process by coracoacromial ligament |
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| Dorsal ramus of C2, ascending on central scalp, comes out below obliquus capitis inferior |
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| Trapezius origin and insertion |
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Superficial back top muscle
Origin: occipitus, nuchal ligament, spinous process in cervical and thoracic regions, superior nuchal line
Insertion: Lateral third of clavicle, acromion, spine of scapula |
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| Trapezius blood and nerve supply |
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Blood: Transverse Cervical Artery, posterior intercostal arteries
Nerve: Accessory Nerve (CN XI) |
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| Latissimus dorsi origin and insertion |
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Origin: thoracolumbar fascia, spinous processes of T7-L5, iliac crest, last 3 ribs
Insertion: Humerus (intertubercular sulcus) |
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| Latissimus dorsi blood and nerve supply |
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Blood: Thoracodorsal artery + more
Nerve: Thoracodorsal nerve |
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| Levator scapulae origin and insertion |
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Origin: C1-C4 transverse processes
Insertion: Medial border of scapula: superior angle to spine |
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| Semispinalis capitis (all) |
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Origin: transverse process of cervical and thoracic
Insertion: superior nuchal line of skull
Blood: unimportant
Nerve: dorsal rami of spinal nerves |
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Erector spinae muscle most exterior
Origin: thoracolumbar fascia, posterior sacrum, spinous process of lumbar/sacral vertebrae
Insertion: angles of lower ribs, cervical transverse processes
Nerve: dorsal rami of each region |
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| Back region of atlas, sticks out towards back, remember no vertebral body on C1 |
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| Rectus capitis posterior major |
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| Only one of 4 muscles in subocipital triangle area not actually in the triangle; innervated by suboccipital nerve; spine of axis to inferior nuchal line |
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