Head, Face, and Neck

Question 1

What are the skull bones made up of?

Answer 1

external table, internal table, diploe

Question 2

What are the 2 divisions of the skull?

Answer 2

cranial and facial skeleton

Question 3

What is the cranial skeleton composed of?

Answer 3

vault + base

Question 3

What bones form the cranial skeleton?

Answer 3

1. frontal bone
2. parietal bone
3. occipital bone
4. temporal bone
5. sphenoid bone
6. ethmoid bone

Question 3

What are the sutures found at the cranial skeleton?

Answer 3

1. coronal suture
2. sagittal suture
3. lambdoidal suture
4. pterion
5. squamous
6. nasion

Question 3

What do you call the parts of the juvenile skull that have not yet ossified?

Answer 3

fontanelles

Question 4

What are the fontanelles?

Answer 4

1. bregma (ant.)
2. lambdoid (post.)
3. sphenoid (anterolateral)
4. mastoid (posterolateral)

Question 5

The bregmatic fontanelle closes at what age?

Answer 5

18 months

Question 6

The lambdoid fontanelle closes by what age?

Answer 6

1 year old

Question 7

What does the scalp consist of?

Answer 7

1. skin
2. connective tissue
3. aponeurosis
4. loose areolar tissue
5. pericranium

Question 8

The facial skeleton is formed by what bones?

Answer 8

1. zygomatic
2. maxillae
3. nasal
4. lacrimal
5. vomer
6. palatine
7. inferior conchae
8. mandible

Question 9

What connects the mandible to the skull?

Answer 9

temporomandibular joint (TMJ)

Question 10

What are the ligaments of the TMJ?

Answer 10

1. lateral temporomandibular lig.
2. sphenomandibular lig.
3. stylomandibular lig.

Question 11

What is the nerve supply of TMJ?

Answer 11

Mandibular nerve

Question 12

What are associated bones found at the skull and cervical vertebra but are not considered bones of the skull?

Answer 12

hyoid bone and auditory ossicles (Malleus, Incus, Stapes)

Question 13

How many vertebrated does the cervical region have?

Answer 13

7

Question 14

What type of foramen does the cervical spine have?

Answer 14

transverse foramen

Question 15

What is C1?

Answer 15

atlas

Question 16

What is C2?

Answer 16

Axis

Question 17

C7 is also known as what?

Answer 17

vertebra prominens

Question 18

Which vertebras at the cervical spine is considered typical?

Answer 18

C3 to C6

Question 19

What vertebra corresponds/is at the level of the thyroid bone?

Answer 19

C4

Question 20

The cricoid bone corresponds to what vertebra?

Answer 20

C6

Question 21

C3 corresponds to what bone?

Answer 21

hyoid bne

Question 22

Which atypical vertebra has no body and no spinous process?

Answer 22

atlas

Question 23

What are the special features of the axis?

Answer 23

1. has dens/odontoid process 2. large bifid spinous process 3. short transverse process

Question 24

What atypical vertebrae has a long non-bifid spinous process and has a small/no transverse foramen at all?

Answer 24

C7 (Vertebra Prominens)

Question 25

Why doesn't the atlas have a body?

Answer 25

it doesn't need to bear weight since it comes first

Question 26

What joint makes the nodding "yes" movement?

Answer 26

Atlanto-occipital (AO) joint

Question 27

What joint makes the shaking head "no" movement?

Answer 27

Atlanto-axial (AA) joint

Question 28

Which cranial nerve is responsible for hearing and movement sense?

Answer 28

CN 8 - Vestibulocochlear

Question 29

Which cranial nerve is responsible for internal sensation and GIT movements?

Answer 29

CN 10 - Vagus nerve

Question 30

What is CN 11 for?

Answer 30

Accessory/Spinal Accessory: For neck movement

Question 31

Which cranial nerve is responsible for mastication?

Answer 31

CN12 - Hypoglossal

Question 32

What is the function of the trigeminal nerve?

Answer 32

Facial sensation + sensation for mastication muscles

Question 33

CN 6 is what?

Answer 33

Abducens

Question 34

What is the function of the abducens?

Answer 34

lateral eye movements

Question 35

The oculomotor nerve is responsible for what?

Answer 35

coordinates eye and eyelid movement

Question 36

The protrusion of the tongue is due to which muscles?

Answer 36

genioglossus

Question 37

The tongue curl when we swallow food is due to which muscle?

Answer 37

styloglossus

Question 38

Tongue elevation is due to which muscle?

Answer 38

palatoglossus

Question 39

When the tip of the tongue points downwards, what muscle is activated?

Answer 39

hyoglossus

Question 40

What extraocular muscles are activated when someone looks to the right?

Answer 40

Medial Rectus & Lateral Rectus

Question 41

What extraocular muscles are activated when someone looks to upper left?

Answer 41

Superior Oblique + Superior Rectus, Inferior Oblique + Inferior Rectus

Question 42

What nerve innervates the superior oblique?

Answer 42

CN4

Question 43

What nerve innervates the lateral rectus?

Answer 43

CN6

Question 44

The lateral temporomandibular ligament limits what kind of movement?

Answer 44

downward and backward movement

Question 45

The sphenomandibular ligament limits what kind of movement?

Answer 45

downward movement of mandible

Question 46

What ligament at the TMJ limits protrusion of the mandible?

Answer 46

stylomandibular ligament

Question 47

The human skull is composed of how many bones?

Answer 47

22

Question 48

The _____ keeps the frontalis and occipitalis connected.

Answer 48

aponeurosis

Question 49

What structure of the cervical vertebrae does the vertebral artery, vertebral vein, and sympathetic nerves pass?

Answer 49

transverse foramen

Question 50

The scalp has how many layers

Answer 50

5

Question 51

Each internal carotid artery branches off into a total of ____ arteries.

Answer 51

4

Question 51

The anterior jugular vein drains into what?

Answer 51

external jugular vein

Question 52

What are the flexor muscles of the neck?

Answer 52

1. sternocleidomastoid 2. rectus capitis 3. longus capitis and longus colli 4. scalenes

Question 53

What are the extensor muscles of the neck?

Answer 53

1. trapezius 2. rectus capitis posterior major and minor 3. splenius capitis and cervicis 4. semispinalis capitis and cervicis