Innervation of Neck Muscles Flashcards
What Superficial Branch supplies innervation to the skin of anterior neck and deep to platysma?
The Transverse Cervical nerve
The Superficial Branches of the Cervical Plexus provide what type of innervation?
All Sensory
What nerves are associated with the Ascending portion of the Superficial branches within the Cervical Plexus?
Lesser Occipital, Greater Auricular, Transverse Cervical
Which nerve supplies innervation to the skin of neck, scalp and posterosuperior ear?
The Lesser Occipital n.
What nerve is considered descending from the Superficial Branches of the Cervical Plexus?
Supraclavicular nerve
What does the Transverse Cervical nerve innervate?
Skin of anterior neck, deep to platysma
What nerve supplies innervation to skin over and around parotid gland, mastoid process, inferior ear and angle of mandible?
The Greater Auricular n.
The Lesser Occipital is located where in association to the Greater Auricular n.
Posteriorly
The descending superficial branches of the Cervical Plexus come from what vertebrae?
C3 and C4
The Supraclavicular nerve provides innervation to what structure?
The skin of the neck inferior to Lesser Occipital n., Greater Auricular n., and Transverse Cervical n.
Deep branches of the Cervical Plexus are what type of innervation?
All Motor
What Vertebrae supplies innervation to the Geniohyoid
C1
What vertebrae are associated with the Ansa Cervicalis?
C1, C2 and C3
What three muscles receive innervation solely from C1
Superior belly of Omohyoid, Geniohyoid, Thyrohyoid
The Deep branches are found mostly in what triangle of the neck?
Anterior Triangle