Anatomy - Neck and Thyroid Gland Flashcards
What does the carotid sheath protect?
- Common carotid artery
- Vagus Nerve
- Internal Jugular vein
What does the Investing layer encapsulate within the neck?
!!Most of the muscle within the neck !!
(outer layer)
- Sternocleidomastoid muscles
- Infrahyoid muscles
- Trapezius muscle
What does the prevertebral layer encapsulate within the neck?
!! Everything to do with the vertebral column!!
-Scalene muscles
-Vertebral
-Spinal Chord
What does the pre - tracheal layer encapsulate within the neck?
- Oesophagus
- Trachea
- Thyroid
What are the layers within the neck?
- Investing layer
- Preverterbal layer
- Carotid sheath
- Pretracheal layer
What are the two triangles that exist within the neck?
What are they divided by
- 2 x anterior triangles
- 2x posterior triangles
Sternocleidomastoid muscle
What divides the anterior and posterior triangles within the neck?
Sternocleidomastoid muscle
What does the Sternocleidomastoid muscle divide within the neck ?
Anterior and Posterior Triangles
What 4 triangles is the anterior triangle of the neck further divided into ?
- Carotid triangle
- Submental triangle
- Submandibular triangle
- Musclular triangle
What two triangles is the posterior triangle of the neck further divided into?
What divides these two triangles
- Occipital triangle
- Subclavian triangle
Inferior belly of omohyoid muscle
What splits the anterior triangles, submandibular and submental from one another?
Digastric Muscle
Point where you think the Hyoid bone is.
Point where you think the internal jugular vein is
Point where you think the Thyrohyoid muscle is
Point where you think the Common carotid artery is