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Chiropractic Assistant Certification, North Carolina
Questions with Answers (100% Correct Answers)
PHI— Answer: Protected Health Information
Anatomy— Answer: The study of body structure (parts)
Physiology— Answer: The study of body function
Subluxation— Answer: spinal misalignment
Chiropractic adjustment— Answer: restoration of spinal function
using the hands or other instrument.
Osteoblasts— Answer: bone forming cells
Osteoclasts— Answer: Bone-destroying cells
Cartilage— Answer: slippery covering over surfaces that move against
other surfaces to reduce friction.
Cervical Spine— Answer: 7 movable vertebrae
Thoracic Spine— Answer: 12 movable vertebrae
Spinous process— Answer: most posterior part of the spine
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Vertebral body— Answer: most anterior part of the spine
Intervertebral disc— Answer: cusions between vertebral bodies that
helps absorb shock and provides flexibility
intervertebral foramen— Answer: opening located between adjacent
vertebrae for exit of a spinal nerve
transverse process— Answer: "wings" that come off the sides of the
spine; points of attachment for muscle and ribs
Facet joints— Answer: 2 faces of spinous process and vertebral body
Scoliosis— Answer: abnormal lateral curvature of the spine
C1 (Atlas)— Answer: top most vertebrae that holds skull; has no
spinous process; "ring of bone"
C2 (Axis)— Answer: has a piece that comes up and fits into the ring of
C1; allows the head to rotate side to side.
Occiput— Answer: back part of the skull; on top of C1
temporal— Answer: behind the ears on either side
TMJ— Answer: temporomandibular joint
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Chiropractic Assistant Certification, North Carolina
Questions with Answers (100% Correct Answers)
PHI— Answer: Protected Health Information
Anatomy— Answer: The study of body structure (parts)
Physiology— Answer: The study of body function
Subluxation— Answer: spinal misalignment
Chiropractic adjustment— Answer: restoration of spinal function
using the hands or other instrument.
Osteoblasts— Answer: bone forming cells
Osteoclasts— Answer: Bone-destroying cells
Cartilage— Answer: slippery covering over surfaces that move against
other surfaces to reduce friction.
Cervical Spine— Answer: 7 movable vertebrae
Thoracic Spine— Answer: 12 movable vertebrae
Spinous process— Answer: most posterior part of the spine
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Vertebral body— Answer: most anterior part of the spine
Intervertebral disc— Answer: cusions between vertebral bodies that
helps absorb shock and provides flexibility
intervertebral foramen— Answer: opening located between adjacent
vertebrae for exit of a spinal nerve
transverse process— Answer: "wings" that come off the sides of the
spine; points of attachment for muscle and ribs
Facet joints— Answer: 2 faces of spinous process and vertebral body
Scoliosis— Answer: abnormal lateral curvature of the spine
C1 (Atlas)— Answer: top most vertebrae that holds skull; has no
spinous process; "ring of bone"
C2 (Axis)— Answer: has a piece that comes up and fits into the ring of
C1; allows the head to rotate side to side.
Occiput— Answer: back part of the skull; on top of C1
temporal— Answer: behind the ears on either side
TMJ— Answer: temporomandibular joint
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