Lecture 6: Head and Neck Flashcards
1
Q
What are the 3 types of skull fractures?
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Linear (low impact), depressed (aggressive blunt force), diastatic (suture opening)
2
Q
Clinically, the weakest part of the skull is the _______.
The skull is very thin at this point
Just below this bone is the ________.
A
Pterion, middle meningeal artery
3
Q
Name all the nerves of the brain
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4
Q
- ______ – loss of smell
- ______ – blindness (can still move eye)
- _______ – dilated pupil
- ______– inability to look down and in
- _______ – inability to feel facial pain and control chewing muscles
- _______ – inability to move eyes side-to-side
A
Olfactory, Optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens
5
Q
- ______ – facial muscle paralysis; loss of taste from anterior 2/3 of tongue
- _______ – hearing loss
- _______ – loss of taste from posterior 1/3 of tongue
- _______ – vocal fold paralysis, difficulty swallowing
- _______ – paralysis of trapezius and sternocleidomastoid
- _______ – weakening of tongue muscles and speech problems
A
Facial, vestibulocochlear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory, hypoglossal
6
Q
Label the arterial blood supply of the skull.
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7
Q
- ______ – motor control, coordination of movement
- ______ – regulate body temperature, hunger, thirst, fatigue
- _______ – relays signals from sensory systems to cerebral cortex
- _______– roles in vision, hearing, movement
- _______ – roles in sensory analyses
- _______ – controls involuntary (autonomic) systems: respiration, heart rate, reflexes such as coughing, sneezing, vomiting
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Cerebellum, hypothalamus, thalamus, midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata
8
Q
Know what foramen each nerve comes out of
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