Nerves of the Neck Flashcards
What does the tympanic nerve supply and what is it associated with?
Sensory to tympanic cavity
Secretomotor to parotid gland
Ear infection
What is the branch to the carotid sinus supply?
sensory to carotid sinus and carotid body
What does the pharyngeal branch supply and what is it associated with?
Sensory to pharynx
Sore throat and (Afferent) GAG reflexes
What does the branch to the stylopharyngeus supply?
Motor to stylopharyngeus muscle
What does the tonsillary branch supply and what is it associated with?
Sensory to mucous membrane over tonsil and soft palate
Tonsillitis
What does the lingual branch supply?
taste (sensory) to posterior third of tongue
What is the only motor branch of the Glossoharyngeal nerve?
Branch to the stylopharyngeus
What is the longest cranial nerve in the body?
Vagus Nerve
What are the two ganglion associated with the vagus and are they sensory or motor?
Superior and Inferior Ganglion and Sensory
Which of the following is not a branch of the vagus nerve? A. Meningeal Branch B. Auricular Branch C. Facial Branch D. Pharyngeal Branch E. Superior Laryngeal Nerve F. Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
C. Facial Branch
What two branches arise from the superior ganglion of the vagus nerve?
Meningeal branch and Auricular branch
What two branches arise from the inferior ganglion of the vagus nerve?
Pharyngeal branch and Superior laryngeal nerve
What does the meningeal branch supply? and what kind of headache is associated with this branch?
dura mater (sensory) Cervicosenic Headache
What does the auricular branch supply? and what is it associated with?
Sensory to auricle, auditory meatus, tympanic membrane
Swimmers Ear
What does the pharyngeal branch supply?
Motor to the muscles of the pharynx and soft palate
What nerve does not make up part of the pharyngeal plexus? A. pharyngeal branch of vagus B. Glossopharyngeal nerve C. Lingual nerve D. Sympathetic trunk
C. lingual nerve
The pharyngeal plexus is motor to all the muscles of the pharynx except ______ and to all the muscles of the soft palate except for _____?
Stylopharyngeus (glossopharyngeal nerve)
Tensor veli palatini (trigeminal nerve)
Which of the following is not a branch of the Glossopharyngeal Nerve? A. Tympanic nerve B. Branch of the Carotid Sinus C. Paryngeal Branch D. Branch to the stylopharyngeus E. Facial nerve F. Tonsillar Branch G. Lingual Branch
E. facial nerve
The superior laryngeal nerve has two parts the internal and external laryngeal nerve, what do they supply?
Internal supplies sensory to larynx
External supplies motor to cricothyroid and inferior constrictor muscles
What does the recurrent laryngeal supply?
Sensory to larynx and trachea
Motor to all muscles of the larynx except the cricothyroid
What is the only muscle of the larynx that isn’t supplies by the recurrent laryngeal nerve?
Cricothyroid
What happens with unilateral damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve?
Hoarseness
What happens with bilateral damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve?
suffocation
What causes damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve?
trauma during thyroid surgery
goiter
lung tumor
aortic anerysm (left side only)
The accesssory nerve is formed by two parts, cranial part and spinal part, what do they supply?
cranial supplies the vagus with motor fibers
spinal supplies motor to sternocleiodmastoid and trapezius muscles
What does the hypoglossal nerve supply?
motor to the tongue
Which of the following is not a branch of the hypoglossal nerve? A. Meningeal branch B. Recurrent branch C. Superior root of the ansa cervicalis D. Nerves to thyroid and geniohyoid E. Lingual branches
B. recurrent branch
What does the meningeal branch supply?
dura mater
What does the superior root of the ansa cervicalis supply?
motor to infrahyoid muscles (sternohyoid, sternothyroid, omohyoid)
What does the nerves to thyrohyoid and geniohyoid supply?
motor to thryohyoid and geniohyoid muscles
What does the lingual branch supply?
motor to extrinsic and intrinsic muscles of the tongue
Which of the following is not part of the cervical sympathetic ganglia? A. Superior Cervical Ganglion B. Middle Cervical Ganglion C. Inferior Cervical Ganglion D. Vertebral Ganglion E. Cervicothoracic (stellate) Ganglion
C. Inferior Cervical Ganglion
What are the branches of the superior cervical ganglion?
Internal carotid nerve - sympathetic supply to head
Superior cervical cardiac - to cardiac plexus
Branches to pharyngeal plexus
The middle cervical ganglion has 1 branch called the middle cervical cardiac nerve and it goes to the?
cardiac plexus
What does the vertebral ganglion usually fuse with?
middle or inferior cervical ganglion
The cervicothoracic ganglion has one branch called the inferior cervical cardiac nerve, where does it go to?
Cardiac plexus
Where is the superior cervical ganglion?
C1-C3
Where is the Middle cervical ganglion?
C6
Where is the vertebral ganglion located?
C7
Where is the cervicothoracic ganglion located?
C7-T1
What does the ansa subclavia connect?
vertebral ganglion to the cervicothoracic ganglion
