Head And Neck - Wet Room (Week 1)

Question 1

What is the most common type of joint in the skull?

Answer 1

Sutural

Question 2

What are the three parts of the skull?

Answer 2

1. Neurocranium
2. Facial skull
3. Mandible

Question 3

Identify the bones that articulate to form the saggital suture

Answer 3

Left and right parietal bones

Question 4

Identify the bones that articulate to form the coronal suture

Answer 4

Frontal and parietal bones

Question 5

Identify the bones that articulate to form the lambdoid suture

Answer 5

Partietal and occipital

Question 6

What bone forms the mastoid process?

Answer 6

Temporal

Question 7

Removing the skull cap and study the floor of the skull; it is separated into three regions, what are they?

Answer 7

Anterior, middle and posterior cranial fossae

Question 8

How far does the scalp extend?

Answer 8

Anteriorly - to the orbits
Posteriorly - to the nuchal lines
Laterally - zygomatic arches

Question 9

Name the five layers of the scalp

Answer 9

S - skin 
C - connective tissue (dense) 
A - aponeurosis of occipital frontal muscle 
L - loose connective tissue 
P - pericranium

Question 10

Contraction of the anterior belly of the occipitofrontalis muscle causes what action?

Answer 10

Raising of the eyebrows

Question 11

What nerve(s) innervated the anterior (anterior to external ear) part of the scalp?

Answer 11

Trigeminal nerve (CN V)

Question 12

What nerve(s) innervated the posterior (posterior to external ear) part of the scalp?

Answer 12

Branches of cervical spinal nerves C2 to C3 (both rami)

Question 13

In which layers of the scalp are blood vessels present?

Answer 13

Dense connective tissue

Question 14

What is diploe?

Answer 14

Spongey cancellous bone separating inner and outer layers of cortical bone

Question 15

What two muscles of facial expression surround the eye?

Answer 15

Orbicularis oculi (orbital and palpebral)

Question 16

What muscle of facial expression surrounds the mouth?

Answer 16

Ocularis orbis

Question 17

What nerve is responsible for innervation of muscles of facial expression?

Answer 17

CN VII ( Facial nerve)

Question 18

What foramen does the facial nerve exit from the cranium through?

Answer 18

Stylomastoid foramen

Question 19

Where does the duct to the parotid gland open into?

Answer 19

The mouth behind the second maxillary molar

Question 20

The facial nerve enters the substance of the parotid gland and branches into what as it exits?

Answer 20

Its terminal branches

Question 21

What nerve carries parasympathetic innervation to the parotid gland?

Answer 21

Glossopharyngeal (CN IX)

Question 22

What carries sympathetic innervation to the parotid gland?

Answer 22

Cervical ganglia

Question 23

What bone does the facial artery wind around to reach the face?

Answer 23

Mandible

Question 24

What muscle on the side of the face lies immediately posterior to the facial artery?

Answer 24

Massater

Question 25

Where does the facial artery end?

Answer 25

Commissure of the eye

Question 26

Where do the facial and superior temporal veins drain into?

Answer 26

Retromandibular vein