Head Innervations

Question 1

What is lacrimal gland innervated by?

Answer 1

Superior Salivatory Nucleus

Synpases on the pterygopalatine ganglion

Question 2

Pain from which tract?

Answer 2

Lateral SPinothalamic Tract

Question 3

Patient is given topical to relieve what fibers?

Answer 3

A delta

Question 4

What’s the NT for A-delta?

Answer 4

Glutamate

Question 5

Sensaton on face & teeth involved what nucleus?

Answer 5

Main sensory nucleus of V

Question 6

What are the primary sensory neurons of termination involved in pain from maxillary 2nd molar?

Answer 6

Spinal nucleus of V

Question 7

What does the nucleus of CN V include?

Answer 7

1. Mesencephalic nucleus: proprioception of face, jaw-jerk reflex
2. Main sensory nucleus: light touch
3. Spinal trigeminal nucleus: pain & temperature

Question 8

Pain from face goes to?

Pain from body goes to?

Answer 8

Face: VPM (ventral posteromedial nucleus)
Body: VPL (ventral posterolateral nucleus)

Question 9

Branchiomeric nerves come from?

nerves to striated muscles

Answer 9

CN 5, 7 ,9, 10

Question 10

What nerve involved in blinking?

Answer 10

CN 1, 7

Question 11

What nerve innervates the skin above the upper lip?

Answer 11

Infraorbital N

Question 12

Patient complains about burning sensation in the mandibular anterior

Answer 12

Mental nerve

Question 13

What innervates posterior hard palate?

What innervates anterior hard palate?

Answer 13

Posterior: Greater palatine N
Anterior: nasopalatine N

Question 14

What innervates the soft palate?

Answer 14

Lesser palatine N

Question 15

Which is NOT part of the Cavernous sinus

Answer 15

optic nerve

Nerve that are: CN 3,4,6, 51, 52,
O TOM CAT

Question 16

What parasympathetic nerve runs through foramen lacerum?

Answer 16

Greater Petrosal

Question 17

What foramen transmits pre-ganglionic parasympathetic fibers?

Answer 17

Foramen ovale

Question 18

Before synapsing in the submandibular ganglion, pre-parasympatehtic travel to which nerve?

Answer 18

Chorda tympanii

Question 19

Which action of lingual nerve stays with the nerve through its course?

Answer 19

Sensory to anterior 2/3 of tongue

Question 20

Which nerve doesn’t transmit taste fibers from tongue?

Answer 20

V

Question 21

What is the position of the lingual nerve in the respect to the inferior alveolar nerve?

Answer 21

Anterior & medial

Question 22

What ganglion does the postsympathetic for the submnadibular ganglion?

Answer 22

Superior cervical ganglion

Question 23

If someone has motor loss underneath their right zygoma, what nerve is damaged?

Answer 23

CN7 when existing the stylomastoid foramen

Question 24

If you cut the nerve for stylomastoid foramen, what do you lose innervation to?

Answer 24

Orbicularis muscle

Question 25

What does CN7 & 8 go through?

Answer 25

Internal acoustic meatus

Question 26

What nerve brings preganglionic parasympathetic nerve fibers to the otic ganglion, then eventually to the parotid gland?

Answer 26

Lesser petrosal nerve via glossopharygneal N (CN9)

Question 27

What goes between the superior & middle pharyngeal constrictor?

Answer 27

CN9

Question 28

What nerves goes between palatoglossus & palatopharyngeus?

Answer 28

Tonsillar branch of CN9

Question 29

Circumvallate papilla are innervated by what nerve?

Answer 29

CN9

Question 30

Which cranial nerve innervates levator veli palatini?

Answer 30

CN10

Question 31

Which nerve doesn’t come out of jugular foramen?

Answer 31

CN12

goes to hypoglossal canal

Question 32

Gag reflex is mediated by?

sensory? AND Motor?

Answer 32

Sensory: CN9
Motor: CN10

Question 33

What is not innervated by the hypoglossal nerve?

Answer 33

Palatoglssal (CN10)

Question 34

Muscles innervated by Ansa Cervicalis (C1-C3) include?

Answer 34

Infrahyoid muscle