atlas AND axis - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

Two answers required. Treatment of one condition impacting these two bones results in a characteristic “cock-robin” posture after surgery. The Fuchs view is a radiographic technique for identifying Jefferson fractures in one of these two bones. Injury likelihood to the transverse ligament found between these two bones is diagnosed with the Rule of Spence. The Powers (-5[1])ratio is constructed from a point on each of these two bones to the basion in the (*) foramen magnum. Common causes of injury to these two bones include (-5[1])transverse stress from the occipital (10[2])condyles and avulsion fractures to the dens. The more superior of these two bones lacks a body, since it has (10[1])fused with the inferior one to enable a greater range of (10[1]-5[1])motion. (-5[1])Subluxation of one or both of these bones may result in an “instability” common in victims of diving accidents or car crashes. For 10 (-5[1])points, name this pair of uppermost vertebrae. (10[6]0[5])■END■

ANSWER: atlas AND axis [accept C1 vertebra or first cervical vertebra in place of “atlas”; accept C2 vertebra or second cervical vertebra in place of “axis”; accept atlanto-axial joint; prompt on cervical vertebrae]

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Summary


2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	14	71%	0%	36%	131.90

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Richard Yu	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	Les Missourables	56	-5
Tracy Mirkin	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	Punished "Venom" BHSU	84	-5
Eric Mukherjee	LMM's LLM MLM	The Empire Bikes Back	89	10
Billy Busse	BHSU B	We Need New Names	89	10
Andrew Wang	Punished "Venom" BHSU	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	109	10
Sinecio Morales	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	120	-5
Vivek Sasse	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	120	10
Anderson Wang	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	121	-5
Victor Pavao	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	145	-5
Ryan Rosenberg	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	The Dyatlov Passement incident	152	10
Amogh Kulkarni	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	152	0
Eric Chen	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	152	10
Iain Carpenter	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	152	0
Aidan Mehigan	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	152	10
Matt Weiner	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	152	0
Charles Hang	Les Missourables	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	152	10
Rasheeq Azad	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	The Jeam Team	152	10
Walter Zhao	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	The Oldest Men in the World	152	10
Swapnil Garg	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	152	0
Colin Stewart	var merchants	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	152	0