Heart - Aorta (carotid artery)

Question 1

What are the 4 sections of the aorta?

Answer 1

ascending aorta

aortic arch

thoracic (descending aorta)

abdominal aorta

Question 2

Where does the ascending aorta arise from?

Answer 2

left ventricle

Question 3

How does the aortic arch bend?

Answer 3

It arches superiorly, posteriorly and to the left before moving inferiorly.

Question 4

What 3 major branches arise form the aortic arch?

Answer 4

1. brachiocephalic trunk
2. left common carotid artery
3. left subclavian artery

Question 5

What is the largest branches of the aortic arch?

Answer 5

brachiocephalic trunk

Question 6

What is the order of the aortic arch branches?

Answer 6

brachiocephalic trunk

left common carotid artery

left subclavian artery

Question 7

What does the brachiocephalic artery break into?

Answer 7

the right common carotid and right subclavian arteries

Question 8

What do the right common carotid and right subclavian arteries supply?

Answer 8

the right side of the head and neck, and the right upper limb.

Question 9

What does the left common carotid artery supply?

Answer 9

Supplies the left side of the head and neck.

Question 10

What does the left subclavian artery supply?

Answer 10

Supplies the left upper limb.

Question 11

What are the 3 branches of the common carotid artery?

Answer 11

Question 12

What are the branches of the subclavian artery?

Answer 12

1. VIT
2. C
3. D

Question 13

What are the branches of the external carotid artery?

Answer 13

Question 14

Name the branches of the external carotid branch (A-H)

Answer 14

Question 15

Where does the infraorbital artery go through and what does it supply blood to?

Answer 15

These arteries supply blood to the maxillary incisors and cuspid teeth and to the maxillary sinuses.

Question 16

What artery is pointed to here?

Answer 16

superficial temporal artery

Question 17

Where do the superficial temporal artery branches supply?

Answer 17

Arises anterior to external auditory meatus, then travels deep to parotid gland.
Many branches to scalp.

Branches to face - transverse facial artery (above parotid duct).

Question 18

What external carotid artery branch is shown here?

Answer 18

facial artery

Question 19

What structures does the facial artery supply?

Answer 19

supply the upper an lower lips

nose, and corner of eye

Question 20

What artery is pointed to here?

Answer 20

internal carotid artery

Question 21

How to differentiate the internal and external carotid artery

Answer 21

The ICA is located posterior and lateral to the ECA. The ICA is slightly larger than the ECA

Question 22

How does the internal carotid artery enter the cranium?

Answer 22

carotid canal then passes through the cavernous sinus

Question 23

Where is the cavernous sinus?

Answer 23

Question 24

How does the middle meningeal artery travel into the cranial cavity?

Answer 24

via the foramen spinosum

Question 25

How does the vertebral artery pass into the cranial cavity?

Answer 25

foramen magnum

Question 26

What can occur as a consequence of fracture t the skull?

Answer 26

epidural hematoma A collection of blood in the space between the skull and dura mater. Caused by tearing of meningeal artery (fracture of skull at pterion).

Question 27

Where does the external carotid artery end?

Answer 27

the parotid gland

Question 28

What happens to the external carotid artery at the parotid gland?

Answer 28

divides into the superficial temporal artery and the maxillary artery

Question 29

What are the 6 branches of the external carotid artery before tit bifurcates to the maxillary and superficial temporal artery?

Answer 29

Superior thyroid artery Lingual artery Facial artery Ascending pharyngeal artery Occipital artery Posterior auricular artery

Question 30

What are the 3 major branches to note of the external carotid artery?

Answer 30

maxillary superficial temporal facial

Question 31

What artery of the external carotid artery, supplies the deep structures of the face?

Answer 31

maxillary artery

Question 32

What arteries of the external carotid artery, supply the superficial structures of the face?

Answer 32

superficial temporal facial

Question 33

Name the external carotid arteries, green, yellow and red

Answer 33

Question 34

What carotid arteries, provide blood to the scalp?

Answer 34

along with internal carotid artery branches - supra-orbital and supratrochlear

Question 35

What is the meningeal artery a branch of?

Answer 35

the maxillary artery

Question 36

What does the meningeal artery supply?

Answer 36

skull and the dura mater

Question 37

What is the pterion?

Answer 37

the region where the frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid bones join

Question 38

Does the internal carotid artery supply the neck?

Answer 38

no

Question 39

What does the internal carotid artery supply?

Answer 39

brain forehead eyes

Question 40

Name arteries A-E

Answer 40

A - brachiocephallic B - left left carotid C - subclavian D - right carotid E - right subclavian