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Head And Neck Flashcards

1
Q

How many bones in the skull?

A

22

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2
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How many bones in the cranium?

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8- only 2 are paired(temporal and zygomatic)

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3
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How many bones in the facial skeleton?

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14

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4
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Which two bones in the facial skeleton are singular?

A

Vomer and mandible

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5
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What bones meet at the pterion?

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Frontal, temporal, parietal and sphenoid

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6
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What travels through the supraorbital foramen?

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Supraorbital nerve and vessels

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7
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What travels through the infraorbital foramen?

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Infraorbital nerve and vessels

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8
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Where is the mental foramen

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Mandible

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9
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Where is the bregma?

A

Junction of coronal and sagittal sutures

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10
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Where is the lambda?

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Junction of the lambdoid and sagittal sutures

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11
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What travels through the foramen spinosum?

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Middle meningeal artery

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12
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What travels through the foramen ovale?

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Mandibular nerve and lesser petrosal nerve

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13
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What travels through the carotid canal?

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Internal carotid artery and nerve plexus

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14
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What travels through the foramen magnum?

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Brain and spinal cord, vertebral arteries, spinal arteries

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15
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What travels through the jugular foramen?

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Internal jugular vein, CNIX, CNX, CNXI

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16
Q

What travels through the stylomastoid foramen?

A

Facial nerve CNVII

17
Q

What are the paranasal sinuses?

A

Frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid and maxillary

18
Q

What muscles border the anterior triangle?

A

Mandible, SCM, midline of the neck

19
Q

What muscles border the posterior triangle of the neck?

A

SCM, trapezius, middle third of the clavicle

20
Q

What are the suprahyoid muscles

A

Geniohyoid, mylohyoid, digastric (posterior and anterior belly), stylohyoid

21
Q

What do the suprahyoid muscles do?

A

Elevate the hyoid bone to enable swallowing

22
Q

What are the infrahyoid muscles?

A

Sternohyoid, omohyoid (posterior and inferior belly), thyrohyoid

23
Q

What do the infra hyoid muscles do?

A

Depress the hyoid bone and move the larynx- speaking!

24
Q

What are the scalene muscles?

A

Anterior, middle and posterior

25
Q

What do the scalene muscles do?

A

Accessory respiratory muscles, obviously engaged in things like asthma attacks when they try to make extra space for air

26
Q

Where does the carotid artery split?

A

2 becomes 4 at C4

27
Q

Where do the internal and external carotid arteries supply?

A

Internal: brain
External:face

28
Q

What nerves travel through the cavernous sinus?

A

CNIII, CNIV, CNV1, CNV2, CNVI

29
Q

What allows you to nod?

A

Atlas and axis

30
Q

What allows you to shake your head?

A

Atlas and dens

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