Skull, Scalp, Face Flashcards
Asterion?
Point where temporal, occipital, and parietal bones meet
Bregma?
Meeting of frontal and parietal bones
When does the anterior fontanelle close?
By the first 18 months of life
Glabella
This is the smooth tranverse ridges connecting the supraorbital ridges
Inion:
highest point on EOP
Lambda:
Meeting point of the occiput and parietals
When does the posterior fontanelle close?
By the 2-3rd month of life
Nasion:
Center of the frontonasal suture between the frontal and nasal bones
Pterion:
Where frontal, sphenoid, parietal, and temporal bones meet
Vertex
Highest point on skull in the sagittal plane
Basion:
Middle of the anterior aspect of the foramen magnum
Opisthion:
Middle of posterior aspect of the foramen magnum
What are the layers of the scalp?
Skin, closed connective tissue, aponeurosis, loose connective tissue, pericranium
In which layer of the scalp do you find blood vessels and nerves?
Closed connective tissue
What makes up the aponeurosis of the scalp?
Flattened tendon of the occiptofrontalis muscle
Innervation of the scalp?
Branches of CN V, C2 and C3
Blood supply of the scalp?
Branches of the external carotid A
Foramen cecum bones? Contents?
Frontal and ethmoid
Nasal emissary V
Anterior/posterior ethmoidal bones? Contents?
Ethmoid
A/P ethmoidal N/A/Vs
Cribriform foramina bones? Contents?
Ethmoid Olfactory Ns (CN I)
Optic canal bones? Contents?
Sphenoid Optic N (CN II) and ophthalmic A
Superior orbital fissure bones? Contents?
Sphenoid
CN III, IV, V1, VI, ophthalmic V
Foramen rotundum bones? Contents?
Sphenoid
CN V2
Foramen ovale bones? Contents?
Sphenoid
CN V3, accessory meningeal A/V
Foramen spinosum bones? Contents?
Sphenoid
Recurrent meningeal br of CN V3, middle meningeal A and V
Foramen lacerum bones? Contents?
sphenoid and temporal
Internal carotid A, venous plexus, sympathetic N passing horizontally
Internal acoustic meatus bones? Contents?
Temporal
CN VII, VIII, nervus intermedius and labyrinthine A
Jugular foramen bones? Contents?
Temporal/occipital
CN IX, X, XI, inferior petrosal and sigmoid sinuses and posterior meningeal A
Hypoglossal foramen bones? Contents?
Occipital
CN XII
Foramen magnum bones? Contents?
Occipital
Medulla, vertebral and spinal A, spinal part of CN XI
All facial expression muscles are derived from what embryological tissue from what arch?
Mesoderm of the 2nd branchial arch
Levator palpebrae superioris is innervated by?
Sympathetic fibers from the stellate ganglion
How to differentiate between a stroke (upper motor neuron lesion of CN VII) and Bells palsy (lower motor neuron lesion of CN VII)?
Pt can wrinkle forehead with stroke because of frontalis being innervated from both sides but not able to wrinkle forehead in bells palsy
3 layers of the eye?
Sclera, choroid, retina
Anterior part of the sclera is transparent and called the?
Cornea
Choroid layer of the eye contains?
Blood vessels
Which is the photosensitive layer of the eye?
Retina
The pigmented iris separates what chambers that contain aqueous humor?
Anterior and posterior chambers
What attached to the lens secretes aqueous humor?
Ciliary body
Where does the aqueous humor drain?
Scleral venous sinus @cornea-scleral junction
Blockage of the scleral venous sinus/canal of Schlemm will result in what pathology?
Glaucoma
What is the oval yellow pot in the retina lateral to the optic disc?
Macula lutea
Where is the highest concentration of cones
Fovea centralis
Where are there no receptors in the retina?
Optic disc
The lens is attached to the ciliary body via what ligament?
Suspensory ligament of the lens
Contraction of the ciliary body is done through what type of stimulation?
Parasympathetic
Contraction of the ciliary body relaxes the tension on the suspensory ligament of the lens causing it to thicken to?
Focus on near objects
Relaxation of the ciliary muscles allows for the lens to thicken to?
Focus on near objects
Sympathetic stimulation causes contraction of the radial iris muscle resulting in pupillary?
Dilation
Parasympathetic stimulation causes contraction of obicularis iris resulting in?
Constriction
Eternal ear consists of what structures?
Pinna and external ear canal
The tympanic membrane separates what two structures?
External and middle ear
What bones amplify sound in the middle ear?
Malleus, incus, stapes
The malleus is attached to what structure?
Tympanic membrane
The stapes lies on what structure?
Oval window
Function of the:
Cochlea?
Semicircular canals, utricle, saccule?
Hearing
Balance