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Injuries to the Head and Spine

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What part of the spine is most often injured?
CERVICAL AND LUMBAR
Brain injuries can be classified as?
DIRECT OR INDIRECT
In the coccyx, or tailbone?
4 COCCYGEAL
Lower back
5 SACRAL
Mid back?
5 LUMBAR
To which the ribs attach?
12 THORACIC
In the neck?
7 CERVICAL
How many bones is the spine made up of?
33 IRREGULAR BONES
How many irregular shaped bones form the face?
14
The portion of the skull that encloses the brain?
THE CRANIUM
What is considered the master organ of life?
THE BRAIN
Heartbeat, breathing, control of the diameter of your vessels, control of the round sphincter muscles closing your bladder and bowel, and digestions are all examples of what?
INVOLUNTARY FUNCTIONS
Messages from the brain to the muscles are carried by?
MOTOR NERVES
Messages from the body to the brain are carried by?
SENSORY NERVES
The bones of the spinal column?
VERTEBRAE
The movable joint formed between the mandible and the temporal bone, also called TMJ?
TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT
Bone that forms part of the side of the skull and floor of the cranial cavity?
TEMPORAL BONE
The bony bump on a vertebra?
SPINOUS PROCESS
The nerves that enter and exit the spinal cord between the vertebrae and the 12 pairs of cranial nerves that travel between the brain and organs without passing through the spinal cord, and all of the body's other motor and sensory nerves?
PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
The bony structures around the eyes?
ORBITS
Provides overall control of thought, sensation, and the voluntary and involuntary motor functions of the body?
NERVOUS SYSTEM
The bones that form the upper third, bridge, of the nose?
NASAL BONES
The two fused bones forming the upper jaw?
MAXILLAE
The lower jaw bone?
MANDIBLE
The cheek bone, also called the zygomatic bone?
MALAR
In brain injuries, a cut to the brain?
LACERATION
In a head injury, a collection of blood within the skull or brain?
HEMATOMA
The bony structure making up the forehead, top, back, and upper sided of the skull?
CRANIUM
In brain injuries, a bruised brain caused when the force of a blow to the head is great enough to rupture blood vessels?
CONTUSION
Mild closed head injury without detectable damage to the brain. Complete recovery is usually expected?
CONSUSSION
The fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord?
CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF)
The brain and the spinal cord?
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Controls involuntary functions?
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
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