Neck Osteology, Chondrology, and Arthrology

Question 1

What typically causes fractures of the hyoid bone?

Answer 1

strangulation –> depression of hyoid bone onto thyroid cartilage –> difficulty swallowing and maintaining separation of eating and breathing tracts

Question 2

What is transmitted through the mastoid foramen?

Answer 2

mastoid emissary V and meningeal branch of occipital A

Question 3

What is transmitted via the sytlomastoid foramen?

Answer 3

fascial N

Question 4

What is the other name for the inion?

Answer 4

external occipital protuberance

Question 5

What is th superior limit of the neck?

Answer 5

superior nuchal line

Question 6

What muscle inserts on the coronoid process of the mandible?

Answer 6

temporalis M

Question 7

What is transmitted through the mandibular foramen?

Answer 7

alveolar N and A

Question 8

What is transmitted through the mylohyoid groove?

Answer 8

mylohyoid N

Question 9

What is transmitted through the mental foramina?

Answer 9

mental N and A

Question 10

What is the significance of the mylohyoid line?

Answer 10

origin of mylohyoid M

Question 11

What is the significance of the mental spines?

Answer 11

project posteriorly

orgin for geniohyoid and genioglossus ms

Question 12

What is the significance of the digastric fossa?

Answer 12

lateral to mental spines

origin for the anterior belly of the digastric ms

Question 13

What are the 2 parts of the cricoid cartilage?

Answer 13

arch = narrow, anterior aspect

lamina = wider, posterior aspect

Question 14

Where is the corniculate cartilage?

Answer 14

rests superiorly on the arytenoid cartilage at the apex

Question 15

Where is the cuneiform cartilage?

Answer 15

embedded in quadrangular membrane

Question 16

Where is the triticeal cartilage?

Answer 16

embedded in the lateral thyroihyoid L

Question 17

What occurs in a fracture of laryngeal cartilages?

Answer 17

typically result of a blow to anterior neck –> submucosal hemorrhage and edema, respiratory obstruction, hoarseness, sometimes inability to speak

Question 18

What are intervertebral joints?

Answer 18

symphyses

Question 19

What type of joint is C1/C2?

Answer 19

coumpound synovial = planar and trochoid

Question 20

What type of joint is the zygopophyseal?

Answer 20

planar synovial

Question 21

What are uncovertebral joints?

Answer 21

in cervical vertebra btw uncinate process of inferior vertebra and beveled inf surface of superior vertebra

Question 22

What does the posterior longitudinal ligament turn into in the neck?

Answer 22

tectorial membrane

Question 23

What does ligamentum flavum turn into in the neck?

Answer 23

posterior atlantooccipital L

Question 24

What does the anterior longitudinal L turn into in the neck?

Answer 24

anterior atlantooccipital L

Question 25

What typ of joint is the atlantooccipital joint?

Answer 25

condyloid synovial