Brain and Meninges

Question 1

What drains into cavernous sinus?

Answer 1

ophthalmic veins
superficial middle cerebral vein
sphenoparietal sinuses
cerebral veins

Question 2

Where does cavernous sinus drain into?

Answer 2

Inferior (drains into internal jugular) and Superior petrosal sinus

Question 3

What structures pass through cavernous sinus?

Answer 3

VI nerve

Internal Carotid Artery

Question 4

What structures pass through wall of cavernous?

Answer 4

3,4, V1, V2

Question 5

Tribituaries of internal jugular vein?

Answer 5

1. Facial
2. Superior thyroid vein
3. Middle thyroid vein
4. Lingual vein
5. Pharyngeal
6. Occipital

Question 6

external jugular vein

Answer 6

formed near the angle of the mandible by the junction of the posterior division of the retromandibular vein and the posterior auricular vein. The external jugular veins dive deep and drain into the subclavian veins or internal jugular veins.

Question 7

Superior SAgittal Sinus

Answer 7

Begins at foramen caecum (recieves small emissary vein from nasal cavity)
Ends at confluence of sinuses
Bend to right= empty int right transversse sinus

Question 8

Inferior Sagittal Sinus

Answer 8

Cerebral veins from falx cerebri

Ends at tranverse sinus

Question 9

Straight Sinus

Answer 9

Great cerebral joins with inferior sag sinus and edge of tentorium cerebelli
Ends in confluence of sinuses
Bends to left emty into left transverse
recieves blood frin inferior sag sinus

Question 10

Occipital Sinus

Answer 10

in falx cerebri

Question 11

Confluence of sinuses

Answer 11

superior sag, transverse, occipital, straight sinus

Question 12

Sigmoid Sinus

Answer 12

as transverses leaves, becomes sigmoid sinus

end at internal jugular veins