Skull

Question 1

Name the 4 sutures of the skull

Answer 1

Metopic
Coronal
Parietal
Lambdoid

Question 2

What type of joint is the AA?

Answer 2

Synovial pivot joint

Question 3

What type of joint is the AO?

Answer 3

Synovial condyloid

Question 4

What degree of movement is available at the AO joint?

Answer 4

Flexion 10

Extension 5

Question 5

What type of joint are the cranial sutures?

Answer 5

Fibrous

Question 6

What type of joint is the spheno-basilar symphysis.

Describe the articulation between these bones

Answer 6

Synchondrosis

Sphenoid and the basilar part of the occipital

Question 7

Name the 4 movements of the TMJ

Answer 7

Protrusion
Retraction
Elevation
Depression

Question 8

What type of joint is the TMJ

Answer 8

Bicondylar ellipsoid joint with fibrocartilagneous articular disc

Question 9

Describe the articulations of the TMJ

Answer 9

the mandibular fossa and articular tubercle (from the temporal bone), and the head of mandible.

Question 10

Which nerve innervates the muscles of mastication?

Answer 10

Mandibular branch of the trigmeninal nerve

Cranial nerve 5

Question 11

Which bones house the ear?

Answer 11

Temporal bones

Question 12

Which cranial nerve is responsible for hearing and balance?

Answer 12

Vestibulocochlear nerve

Cranial nerve 8

Question 13

Which bones make up the orbit of the eye? (7)

Answer 13

Zygomatic
Maxillary
Frontal
Lacrimal
Sphenoid
Ethmoid 
Palantine

Question 14

The mental foramen of the mandible acts as a passageway for which nerve? What does it innervate

Answer 14

Alveolar nerve

Supplies sensation to the lower teeth

Question 15

Which cranial nerve innervates the extrinsic and intrinsic muscles of the tongue?

Answer 15

Hypoglossal nerve

Cranial nerve 12

Question 16

Which muscles attaches to the styloid process of the temporal bone?

Answer 16

styloglossus muscle

Question 17

Which nerve innervates the sub occipital muscles?

Compression of this nerve may lead to which conditon?

Answer 17

C1, Arnolds neuralgia

Question 18

Which sub occipital muscles attaches to the Posterior tubercle of the atlas?

Answer 18

Rectus capitus posterior minor

Question 19

Which sub occipital muscles attaches to the SP of the axis?

Answer 19

Rectus capitus posterior major

Question 20

What is the origin and insertion of the obliquus capitis inferior?

Answer 20

O- SP of the axis?

I- Transverse process of the axis

Question 21

What is the origin and insertion of the obliquus capitis Superior?

Answer 21

O- Tp of the axis

I- Superior nuchal line of the occipital

Question 22

Which suboccipital muscle laterally flexes the head?

Answer 22

obliquus capitis Superior?

Question 23

Which suboccipital muscle rotates the head/neck? (2)

Answer 23

obliquus capitis inferior

Rectus capitus posterior major

Question 24

What is the function of Rectus capitus posterior minor muscle?

Answer 24

Extends the head

Question 25

Which muscle opens/closes the eye?

Answer 25

Levator palpabrae superioris (opens)
Orbicularis oculi (closes)

Question 26

Which nerve inneravates the Levator palpabrae superioris?

Answer 26

Cranial nerve 3

oculomotor nerve

Question 27

What nerve innerates the lateral rectus of the eye?

Answer 27

Cranial nerve 6

The abducens nerve

Question 28

Which nerve inneravates the superior oblique muscle of the eye?

Answer 28

trochlear nerve

Cranial nerve 3

Question 29

What are the accessory movements of the AO joint?

Answer 29

Ant/Post translation

Question 30

Which muscle depress the mandible?

Answer 30

platysma