Anatomy Buzzwords Flashcards
Injury: Flattened Deltoid
Anterior Dislocation of humerus
Injury: Intact Afferent Pupillary Reflex, unilateral efferent defect—signs?
Oculomotor nerve damage; drooping of eyelid
Injury leading to Hyperphagia
Ventromedial Thalamus Damage
Injury leading to anorexia
Lateral Thalamus damage
Anterior Compartment Syndrome Structures
Deep Peroneal/Fibular Nerve, Tibial artery
Structure injured in variocele “bag of worms”
Pampinoform plexus
Structure injured in hydrocele (communicating)–Transilluminating scrotum
Tunica Vaginalis
What two structures does median nerve pass thru to cause carpal tunnel like stuff (not carpal tunnel structure)
flexor digitorum superficialis, flexor digitorum profundus
What needs to be ligated in oophrectomy
Suspensory Ligament (aka infundibulopelvic ligament)
What needs to be ligated in hystectomy
Round Ligament, ureter
Cryptoorchidism-testicle failed to descend- what do you pull it through to fix
External abdominal aponeurosis (the superficial inguinal ring)
The weird hip drop thing on contralateral side- what side do you target on other side to fix (Trendelberg sign)
Superomedial quadrant
Where is most water reabsorbed in kidney
Proximal tubule (REGARDLESS OF DEHYDRATION)
Mass at third portion of duodenum- what vessel can get hurt?
SMA; it is at level of L3 (anterior to duodenum here)
Nerve block between anterior and middle scalene- what could get hurt?
phrenic nerve
Injury: Linear skull frcture at junction of frontal, parietal, temporal and sphenoid bones–what vessel is damaged?
Middle Meningeal artery (branch of Maxillary artery)
Unilateral SVC syndrome looking thing
Brachiocephalic vein obstruction
Fever and flank pain after hysterectomy-injury?
Ureter
What muscle do you need in valsalva maneuver
Your abs. Rectus abdoinis
Cauterize to stop a nose bleed?
Nasal septum (Kisselbach plexus)
Posterior Rostral Pons near lateral floor of fourth ventricle- structure and what does it secrete?
Locus Cereleus, Norepinephrine
Where is dopamine produced
VTA area and substantia nigra pars compacta, midbrain
Gerstmann syndrome- can’t write, can’t do math, can’t identify fingers, disorientated left-right- damaged structure?
Angular gyrus of dominant parietal lobe
What is going on in Retrograde Vertebrae arterial flow
Subclavian artery is occluded (before vertebral branch, so have to flow around)—Subclavian Steal
What Stomach Vessel is vulnerable to ischemic injury, what does it branch from
Short Gastric—from splenic
What is damaged in Pancoast tumor
Autonomic Ganglia (Brachial Plexus, or cervical sympathetic ganglia (Horner’s Syndrome))
Injury—mass medial to inferior epigastric (older guy)-Process?
DIrect Inguinal Hernia, Breakdown of transversalis fascia
Tender bulge below inguinal ligament, lateral to pubic tubercle–injury? What is structure lateral to it?
Femoral Hernia, Femoral vein is just lateral
Landmark to use to find appendix?
Teniae Coli
Deficits in CN III, IV, VI, V (opthalmic and maxillary)- what is injury?
Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis
AV Node Blood Supply: Left Dominant? Right Dominant?
Left (less common): Left circumflex
Right: Right Coronary
Orbital Floor fracture (you know maxillary sinus) but what nerve gets damaged, what sensation loss?
Upper Cheek, Upper Lip, Upper Gingiva (Infraorbital nerve)
What is the radial groove/sulcus, what structures can be damaged?
It is the midshaft humerus. Deep Brachial Artery (profunda brachii), radial nerve
Vessel Damage in Supracondylar fracture of humerus
Brachial artery
Drooping of Shoulder, impaired abduction above horizontal, winging of scapula- injury?
Trapezius (Spinal Acessory damage) in posterior triangle
Patellar Injury- lost function?
Can’t extend knee against gravity
Glossopharyngeal nerve damage findings?
loss of gag reflex (afferent limb), loss of sensation in way back of mouth/pharynx/tonsils/post 1/3 tongue (and middle ear)
Supraspinatus function
Abduction
Where in the abdomen is the pancreas on a CT
midline.
Nerve injured in thyroidectomy, muscle it supplies?
Superior Laryngeal nerve—cricothyroid
Nerve supplying aryepiglotticus, lateral and posterior cricoarytenoid, thyroartenoid?
recurrent laryngeal nerve
(-crine) Cell process by which acne is created?
Holocrine (cell lysis and releasing membrane contents)
Increased Sensitivity to sound (muscle and nerve)
Stapedius, facial nerve
Fundus Gastric Varicies–what artery is occluded (and who can it happen to)
Short Gastric Veins (from splenic vein)—people with chronic pancreatitis
Most common site of aortic injury in trauma
Aortic Isthmus (right before it goes down after branches have come off)
What is the area where CN VIII is often compressed in acoustic neuromas?
Cerebellopontine angle
