Final Exam Flashcards
- What bone contains the superior orbital fissure?
Sphenoid bone
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Cavernous sinus
- If you are poked on the nasalis muscle what nerve is stimulated?
CN VI
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Facial artery
- What artery supplies the eye (can’t remember exact wording of this one)
Ophthalmic artery which is a branch of the internal carotid artery
- What bone contains the incisive foramen?
Maxilla
- What branch of the facial nerve innervates the platysma?
Cervical branch
- If you are poked on the philtrum what nerve is stimulated?
CN V2
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Lateral pterygoid plate
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Jugular foramen
- What produces CSF?
Choroid plexus
- What transports CSF throughout system and up into the superior sagittal sinus?
Arachnoid granulations
- What muscle closes eye lids?
Orbicularis oculi
- What muscle plays a large role in smiling
Risorius
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Buccal branch of the facial nerve
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Superior sagittal sinus
- What foramina/canal does CN VII (facial nerve) travel through first?
Internal acoustic meatus
- What travels through the superior orbital fissure?
CN V1, CN III, CN IV, CN VI, ophthalmic veins, and sympathetic fibers
- What bone makes up the cribriform plate?
Ethmoid bone
- What nerve innervates the mentalis muscle?
Marginal mandibular branch of the facial nerve
- What travels through foramen spinosum?
Middle meningeal artery
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Cerebellar tentorium
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Cerebral falx
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Parietal lobe
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Lateral ventricles
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Basilar artery
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Internal corotid artery
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Middle cerebral artery
- What nerve supplies orbicularis oris?
Buccal branch of facial nerve
- What innervates the frontalis muscle?
Temporal branch of facial nerve
- What innervates the lateral rectus muscle?
CN VI (abducens nerve)
- What innervates the superior oblique muscle?
CN IV (trochlear nerve)
- What innervates the nasion?
CN V1 (ophthalmic nerve)
- What does the facial nerve exit?
Stylomastoid foramen
- What bone is the infraorbital foramen on?
Maxilla
- What bone is the supraorbital notch on?
Frontal bone
- What passes through jugular foramen?
CN9,10,11, jugular arteries
- What passes through foramen ovale?
CN V3 and accessory meningeal artery
- What passes through foramen rotundum?
CN V2
- Poke a needle in the mental protuberance. What nerve?
CN V3 (mandibular nerve)
- Poke a needle in the medial zygoma. What nerve?
CN V2
- Poke your upper eyelid. What nerve?
CN V1
- What layer is always located deep CSF?
Pia mater
- What bone is foramen rotundum on?
Sphenoid bone
- What bone is the internal acoustic meatus on?
Temporal bone
- What bone is the mental foramen on?
Mandible
- What bone is foramen ovale on?
Sphenoid bone
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Pons
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Cerebellum
- What is the innervation for pupil constriction?
Parasympathetics from CN III
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Coronoid process
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Hyoglossus
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Middle concha
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Frontal sinus
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Sphenoid sinus
- What nerve provides pre-ganglionic parasympathetics to the submandibular gland?
CN VII (facial nerve)
- Post-ganglionic parasympathetic fibers to the parotid gland come from which ganglion?
Otic ganglion
- Pre-ganglionic parasympathetic cell bodies for the pupil are located where?
Edinger-Westphal nucleus
- Parasympathetic pre-ganglionic fibers to the parotid come from which nerve?
CN IX (glossopharyngeal nerve)
- Post-ganglionic parasympathetic fibers to the lacrimal gland come from which ganglion?
Pterygopalatine ganglion
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Temporalis
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Masseter
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Buccinator
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Mylohyoid
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Genioglossus
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Palatine process of the maxilla
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Greater and less palatine foramen
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Hypoglossal nerve
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Lateral pterygoid muscle
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Medial pterygoid muscle
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Frenum of the tongue
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Hyoid
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Inferior alveolar nerve
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Lingual nerve
- What nerve goes through the mandibular foramen?
Inferior alveolar nerve
- What innervates the mentalis muscle?
CN VII
- What innervates the superior oblique muscle?
Trochlear nerve (CN IV)
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Tragus
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Eustachian tube/pharyngotympanic tube
- What nerve innervates the stylopharyngeus muscle?
CN IX
- What nerve innervates the stylohyoid?
CN VII
- What nerve innervates the buccinator?
CN VII
- What nerve innervates the levator veli palatini?
CN X
- What nerve innervates the palatoglossus?
CN X
- What nerve innervates the mylohyoid?
CN V3
- What nerve innervates the posterior belly of the digastric?
CN VII
- What nerve innervates the frontalis muscle?
Temporal branch of CN VII
- What nerve innervates styloglossus?
CN XII
- What nerve innervates the anterior belly of the digastric?
CN V3
- What nerve innervates tensor veli palatini?
CN V3
- When you lick a strawberry lollipop, the taste sensation travels through which nerve?
CN VII
- What nerve primarily innervates taste behind the vallate papillae?
CN IX
- If a needle poked you in the buccal mucosa of your cheek, pain would be transmitted by which nerve?
Buccal nerve (branch of CN V3)
- If you stab a needle in the tip of your tongue, pain would be transmitted by which nerve?
Lingual nerve (branch of CN V3)
- If a needle poked your medial zygoma, pain would be transmitted by which nerve?
CN V2
- If you stick a needle in the mucosa behind the maxillary central incisors, what foramen does the nerve that innervates these teeth travel through first?
Incisive foramen
- Pre-ganglionic cell bodies for tear production are located where?
Superior salivatory nuclei
- Which muscle does NOT contribute to protrusion?
Temporalis
- What is the function of the macula and utricle?
Linear movement and speed
- Which of the following muscles does NOT elevate the mandible?
Lateral pterygoid muscle
- What is the main function of the lateral pterygoid?
Depression of the mandible
- Temporalis muscle attaches to what structure?
Coronoid process
- Which ossicle is associated with the oval window?
Stapes
- What fold of tissue covers the palatine tonsil?
Palatoglossus arch
- Parasympathetic fibers for the sublingual glands is carried by which nerve?
CN VII
- Which nerve is associated with taste posterior to the sulcus terminalis?
CN IX
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Esophagus
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Epiglottis
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Thyrohyoid
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Omohyoid
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Anterior belly of digastric
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Thyroid cartilage
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Cricothyroid
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Thyroid gland
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Vocal fold
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Spinal accessory nerve
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Great auricular nerve
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External jugular vein
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Trapezius
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Epiglottis
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Platysma
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Right recurrent laryngeal nerve
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Superior cervical ganglion
- What nerve innervates the stapedius muscle?
CN VII
- Which cartilaginous structure is involved with movement of the vocal cords?
Arytenoid cartilage
A patient presents with dental pain. His speech is breathy and weak. There is a mass on his sternocleidomastoid and lateral of his trachea that has been there for a long time. What do you suspect is wrong?
Cancer of the recurrent laryngeal nerve
- What branchial arch is associated with tensor veli palatini?
Arch 1
- Which fascia is associated with the thyroid gland?
Pre-tracheal fascia
- What nerve innervates trapezius?
CN XI
- Which branchial arch is associated with orbicularis oris?
Arch 2
- Which joint is associated with the motion of “NO”?
Atlas-axis joint
- What nerve innervates palatopharyngeus?
CN X
- What branchial arch is associated with CN VII?
Arch 2
- What muscle is located within the vocal fold?
Vocalis
- Which structure contains the greatest flow of lymph fluid?
Thoracic trunk
- A patient presents with an infection on the tip of their tongue. Which lymph node will this infection drain to?
Submental lymph nodes
- Which fascia wraps around the sternocleidomastoid, trapezius, parotid, and submandibular gland?
Investing fascia
- Which branchial pouch does the superior parathyroid gland come from?
4th branchial pouch
- What nerve innervates sternohyoid?
Ansa cervicalis
- The external jugular vein is formed by which 2 veins?
Retromandibular and posterior auricular veins
- Which of the following muscles is the only laryngeal muscle to not be innervated by the recurrent laryngeal nerve?
Cricothyroid muscle
- A patient is in need of an emergency airway. Where is it placed?
Between the cricoid cartilage and trachea cartilage
- Which muscle abducts the true vocal cords?
Posterior cricoarytenoid
- A patient presents with pain in their 3rd molar area. There is a mass that is 1-2 cm in size, fixed, bilateral, and in multiple locations. What should be your concern?
The cancer has metastasized
- The larynx is innervated by which nerve?
CN X
- Which of the following would have the worst prognosis?
2 positive cancer lymph nodes on the left side and 1 positive cancer lymph node
on the right side (spread of cancer on both sides of the body)
- Which branchial arch forms the cricoid cartilage?
Arch 4
- What nerve innervates the superior pharyngeal constrictor?
CN X
- What nerve innervates the inferior pharyngeal constrictor?
CN X
- What is the function of the parathyroid gland?
Regulates calcium
- If a needle was inserted 1 inch below the angle of the mandible, pain would be transmitted by which nerve?
Glossopharyngeal CN IX
- Which branchial arch is associated with the anterior belly of digastric?
Arch 1
- Cleft lip is the failure of what 2 processes joining together?
Nasomedial and maxillary processes
- What processes develop from the first arch?
Mandibular and maxillary processes
- What cartilage/eponym is associated with the first arch?
Meckel’s cartilage
- What structure is derived from the 3rd pouch?
Thymus
- The cranial nerves that supply motor innervation to the muscles that move the eyeball all enter the orbit through a foramen that is between the
Greater and lesser wings of sphenoid bone
- The jugular foramen transmits all the following structures EXCEPT one. Which one is the EXCEPTION?
Middle meningeal artery
- During a boxing match a boxer was struck on the lateral side of the skull, immediately he fell unconscious for several seconds. He was asymptomatic for the first 24 hours then he developed symptoms of elevated intracranial pressure (headache, nausea, and vomiting). Which of the following arteries is most likely involved?
Middle meningeal artery
- All of the following infrahyoid muscles are innervated by the ansa cervicalis EXCEPT one. Which one is the EXCEPTION?
Thyrohyoid
- After depositing enough lidocaine 2% to anesthetize the nerve entering the mandibular foramen, a dental student removes the needle to approximately half the depth of the initial target, whereupon another bolus of anesthetic is deposited. What nerve is most likely anesthetized by the second bolus?
Lingual nerve
- Preganglionic parasympathetic axons are associated with all of the following cranial nerves EXCEPT one. Which one is the EXCEPTION?
Trigeminal nerve
- What is the major arterial origin supplying the mandibular anterior teeth?
Maxillary artery
- Dental student performs an inferior alveolar nerve block and thinks it works. However, the patient complains they can’t move their face on the same side of the injection. What structure did the student really hit?
medial pterygoid
