Head

Question 1

CN I

Answer 1

Olfactory Nerve - SVA (special visceral afferent)

special sense of smell

Question 2

CN II

Answer 2

Optic Nerve - SSA (special somatic afferent)

special sense of sight

Question 3

CN III

Answer 3

Oculomotor Nerve
GSE (motor to extraocular muscles)
GVE (parasympathetic to smooth muscle in eye)

Question 4

CN IV

Answer 4

Trochlear Nerve - GSE (motor to 1 extraocular muscle)

Question 5

CN V

Answer 5

Trigeminal Nerve
GSA (sensory to face, nose, orbit, anterior tongue)
SVE (motor to skeletal muscles)

Question 6

CN VI

Answer 6

Abducens - GSE (motor to one extraocular muscle)

Question 7

CN VII

Answer 7

Facial Nerve
GSA (sensory to skin of ear)
SVA (special taste to anterior 2/3 tongue)
GVE (motor to salivary, nasal and lacrimal glands)
SVE (motor to facial muscles)

Question 8

CN VIII

Answer 8

Vestibulocochlear Nerve

SSA (special sense of hearing and balance)

Question 9

CN IX

Answer 9

Glossopharyngeal Nerve
GSA (sensory to posterior tongue)
SVA (special taste, posterior tongue)
GVA (sensory from middle ear, pharynx, carotid body, sinus)
GVE (motor to parotid gland)
SVE (motor to 1 muscle of pharynx)

Question 10

CN X

Answer 10

Vagus Nerve
GSA (sensory external ear)
SVA (special taste - epiglottis)
GVA (sensory from pharynx, larynx, thoracic & abdominal organs
GVE (motor to thoracic & abdominal organs)
SVE (motor to muscles of pharynx/larynx)

Question 11

CN XI

Answer 11

Spinal Accessory Nerve

SVE (motor to 2 muscles)

Question 12

CN XII

Answer 12

Hypoglossal Nerve - GSE (motor to tongue muscles)

Question 13

Supraorbital Foramen

Answer 13

Supraorbital VAN

Question 14

Foramen Cecum

Answer 14

Emissary veins to superior sagittal sinus

Question 15

Foramina of cribiform plate

Answer 15

Olfactory nerve bundles (CNI)

Question 16

Anterior ethmoidal foramen

Answer 16

Anterior ethmoidal VAN

Question 17

Posterior ethmoidal foramen

Answer 17

Posterior ethmoidal VAN

Question 18

Optic canal

Answer 18

Opthalmic artery & Optic nerve (CN II)

Question 19

Superior orbital fissure

Answer 19

Superior & inferior opthalmic veins
Oculomotor nerve (CN III)
Trochlear nerve (CN IV)
Abducent nerve (VI)
Lacrimal, frontal & nasociliary branches of ophthalmic nerve (V1)

Question 20

Foramen Rotundum

Answer 20

Maxillary Nerve (V2)

Question 21

Greater palatine foramen

Answer 21

Greater palatine VAN

Question 22

Lesser palatine foramina

Answer 22

Lesser palatine VAN

Question 23

Inferior orbital fissure

Answer 23

Inferior opthalmic veins
Infraorbital artery & vein*
Zygomatic nerve and infraorbital nerve of maxillary nerve (V2)
Orbital branches of pterygopalatine ganglion**

Question 24

Infraorbital foramen

Answer 24

Infraorbital VAN

Question 25

Foramen ovale

Answer 25

Accessory meningeal artery
Mandibular nerve (V3)
Lesser petrosal nerve (occasionally)

Question 26

Foramen spinosum

Answer 26

Middle meningeal artery

Meningeal branch of mandibular nerve (V3)

Question 27

Foramen lacerum

Answer 27

Internal carotid artery

Artery & nerve of pterygoid canal

Question 28

Internal acoustic meatus

Answer 28

Labyrinthine artery
Facial nerve (VII)
Vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII)

Question 29

Jugular foramen

Answer 29

Inferior petrosal sinus
Sigmoid sinus
Glossopharyngeal nerve (IX)
Vagus nerve (X)
Accessory nerve (XI)

Question 30

Hypoglossal canal

Answer 30

Hypoglossal nerve (XII)

Question 31

Foramen magnum

Answer 31

Anterior & posterior spinal arteries
Vertebral arteries
Medulla oblongata

Question 32

Stylomastoid foramen

Answer 32

Stylomastoid artery

Facial nerve