Head Vasculature Test #3 10/11/16 Flashcards
What vein of the face drains into the angular vein?
Facial
Where does the angular vein drain into?
Opthalmic vein
What does the opthalmic vein drain into?
Cavernous sinus
What connects the superior sagittal sinus and the inferior sagittal sinus?
The straight sinus
What is it called when the superior sagittal sinus meets with the transverse sinus and the straight sinus?
Confluence of sinus
What drains the cavernous sinus?
- Superior petrosal sinus
- Inferior petrosal sinus
Where does the superior petrosal sinus drain into?
Sigmoid sinus
Where does the inferior petrosal sinus drain into?
Internal juguar
What pokes into the superior sagittal sinus?
Arachnoid villi/granulations
What is the fissure that separates the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex?
Longitudinal fissure
What separates the parietal lobe from the temporal lobe?
Sylvian fissure
T/F
Jugular venous pressure/pulse can indicate heart problems
True
What CN sits just in front of the cavernous sinus?
CN II Optic nerve
What are the four regions of the internal carotid artery?
- Cerebral
- Cavernous
- Petrous
- Cervical
What two arteries branch off of the internal carotid?
- Artery of the pterygoid canal
- Opthalmic artery
What does the opthalmic artery serve?
- All parts of the orbit
- Ethmoid bone
- Superficial face
What parts of the orbit does the opthalmic artery serve?
- Retina
- Extraocular muscles
- Lacrimal gland
What superficial parts of the face does the opthalmic artery serve?
- Dorsal nasal
- Frontal (supratrochlear)
- Supraorbital
Where can the superior thyroid artery anastomose?
Contralateral with thyroid artery and inferior thyroid artery
What are the 4 branches off of the superior thyroid artery?
- Superior laryngeal
- Cricothyroid
- Hyoid
- SCM
Where triangle does the superior thyroid artery start in?
Carotid
What does the superior thyroid artery supply?
- Anterior strap muscles
- Superior laryngeal
- cricothyroid
- Hyoid
- SCM
What are the three branches of the ascending pharyngeal artery?
- Pharyngeal
- Meningeal
- Tympanic
Where does the ascending pharyngeal artery serve?
- Pharyngeal constrictors
- Stylopharyngeus
- Soft palate
- Auditory tube
- Palatine tonsil
- All soft palate muscles (except levator veli palatini)
- Mininges (middle meningeal artery)
- Middle Ear