Cadaver Head & neck Flashcards
- Coronal suture
- Sphenoid bone (greater wing)
- Articular tubercle (temporal bone)
- Mental foramen
- Squamosal suture
- External acoustic meatus
- Mastoid process
- Angle of the mandible
- Supraorbital notch (foramen)
- Superior orbital fissure
- Middle nasal concha (turbinate)
- Inferior nasal concha (turbinate)
- Frontonasal suture
- Nasal septum (vomer)
- Ramus of mandible
- Mental foramen
Following severe head trauma, a patient has oedema within the superior orbital fissure. Which one of the following nerves would not likely be affected by such swelling?
A. Trochlear
B. Oculomotor
C. Maxillary
D. Frontal
E. Nasociliary
C. Maxillary
- Optic canal
- Lateral pterygoid plate of pterygoid process
- Pterygoid hamulus
- Superior orbital fissure
- Foramen rotundum
- Lesser wing of sphenoid bone
- Sphenoidal sinus
- Pterygoid canal
- Pterygoid hamulus
- Orbital surface of greater wing of sphenoid
- Foramen rotundum
Following head trauma, a CT scan reveals a fracture that passes through the foramen rotundum. Which of the following would not be consistent with transection of the nerve that passes through this canal?
A. Loss of salivation from the parotid gland
B. Decreased tearing
C. Decreased nasal secretions
D. Decreased taste from hard palate
E. Decreased taste from soft palate
A. Loss of salivation from the parotid gland
- Occipital condyle
- Pharyngeal tubercle
- External occipital protuberance
- Condylar canal
- Foramen magnum
In a patient with a tumour compressing the structures that pass through the foramen magnum, you would expect to see which of the following in addition to neurological signs affecting the torso and limbs?
A. Difficulty speaking
B. Difficulty swallowing
C. Reduced blood supply to the brain
D. Decreased hearing acuity
E. Decreased CSF pressure
C. Reduced blood supply to the brain
- Squamous part of temporal bone
- Zygomatic process of temporal bone
- Mandibular fossa
- External acoustic meatus
- Mastoid process
- Zygomatic process of frontal bone
- Anterior ethmoidal foramen (canal)
- Posterior ethmoidal foramen (canal)
- Supraorbital notch
- Orbital plate of frontal bone
- Ethmoidal notch
A 28-year-old male boxer was punched in the face, and the bones comprising his zygomatic arch were fractured. Some of the bone fragments were now embedded in the muscle directly deep (medial) to the arch. This muscle is:
A. Temporalis
B. Masseter
C. Zygomaticus major
D. Lateral pterygoid
E. Medial pterygoid
A. Temporalis
- Frontal crest
- Cribriform plate of ethmoidal bone
- Lesser wing of sphenoidal bone
- Foramen rotundum
- Foramen spinosum
- Jugular foramen
- Anterior clinoid process
- Sella turcica (hypophysial fossa)
- Groove for superior petrosal sinus
- Diploë
- Sagittal suture
- Lambdoid suture
- External occipital protuberance
- Parietal foramen
- Lambda
- Incisive fossa
- Palatine process of maxilla
- Horizontal plate of palatine
- Choanae
- Greater palatine foramen
- Lesser palatine foramen
A dentist is about to inject an anaesthetic solution through the incisive foramen to anaesthetize the anterior part of the hard palate. The nerve that passes through this foramen is a branch of the:
A. Lateral nasal nerve
B. Facial nerve
C. Lingual nerve
D. Nasopalatine nerve
E. Glossopharyngeal nerve
D. Nasopalatine nerve