SSN Head & Neck Anatomy

Question 1

unmyelinated section of cord (gray matter)

Answer 1

horn

Question 2

initial segment of nerve distal to spinal cord

Answer 2

root

Question 3

distal branch of spinal nerves

Answer 3

ramus

Question 4

branch connecting spinal nerve to sympathetic trunk

Answer 4

ramus communicans

Question 5

mass of nerve cell bodies

Answer 5

ganglion

Question 6

GA

Answer 6

somatic sensory

Question 7

GSE

Answer 7

somatic motor

Question 8

GVE

Answer 8

postsynaptic sympathetics only!

Question 9

cervical GVE leave ventral rami at

Answer 9

T1-T4

Question 10

Cervical GVE enter which ramus communicans?

Answer 10

white

Question 11

Post-synaptics enter which ramus communicans?

Answer 11

grey

Question 12

SA

Answer 12

special senses

Question 13

SVE

Answer 13

pharyngeal arch motor

Question 14

Where are head and neck symapthetics anything but vascular?

Answer 14

secretomotor in sweat glands

Question 15

What separates EJ and IJ?

Answer 15

SCM

Question 16

All lymph drains to

Answer 16

Deep cervical, to jugular trunk, to subclavian artery

Question 17

trigeminal triggers

Answer 17

the two tensors

Question 18

infratemporal fossa contains

Answer 18

pterygoids, pterygoid venous plexus, maxillary artery and branches, V3 and branches, chorda tympani, otic ganglion

Question 19

mandibular ligaments

Answer 19

sphenomandibular, stylomandibular, lateral

Question 20

what wraps around the middle menigeal artery?

Answer 20

V3: auricotemporal to otic (carrying CNIX)

Question 21

what layers are falx and tentorum made of?

Answer 21

meningeal

Question 22

where do dural sinuses drain?

Answer 22

internal jugular

Question 23

what intracranial sinus connects to superior opthlamic vein?

Answer 23

cavernous!

Question 24

what eye muscle does not have proximal attachment at apex of orbit?

Answer 24

inferior oblique

Question 25

what muscles are anteriorly visible?

Answer 25

inferior oblique, inferior rectus

Question 26

obliques are

Answer 26

Abductors

Question 27

test obliques with

Answer 27

Adduction

Question 28

s. and I. Rectus are

Answer 28

adductors

Question 29

test s. & I. Rectus with

Answer 29

abduction

Question 30

can look in but not down. Which nerve?

Answer 30

trochlear

Question 31

Down and out?

Answer 31

oculomotor nerve palsy

Question 32

superior and middle constrictor innervation

Answer 32

pharyngeal branch of CNX

Question 33

inferior constrictor innervation

Answer 33

external branch of superior laryngeal

Question 34

vertical muscles of larynx all start with

Answer 34

stylo

Question 35

Innervation of the stylos

Answer 35

styloglossus: XII, stylopharyngeal: IX, stylohyoid: VII

Question 36

Between superior and middle constrictor

Answer 36

stylopharyngeus, nerves and arteries to oral cavity

Question 37

Between middle and inferior constrictors (pierces thyrohyoid membrane)

Answer 37

internal branch of superior laryngeal nerve, superior laryngeal artery

Question 38

Below inferior constrictor

Answer 38

recurrent laryngeal nerve, inferior laryngeal arteries

Question 39

what are the borders of the palantine tonsil?

Answer 39

palatopharyngeus, palatoglossus

Question 40

larynx/hyoid elevators

Answer 40

suprahyoids, stylo and palatopharyngeus, inferior and middle pharyngeal constrictors

Question 41

which muscle elevates larynx only?

Answer 41

thyrohyoid

Question 42

infrahyoid depressors

Answer 42

sternohyoid, sternothyroid, omohyoid

Question 43

what depressed hyoid only?

Answer 43

thyrohyoid

Question 44

parasympathetic nerves to the pterygopalatine ganglion

Answer 44

from greater petrosal nerve

Question 45

sympathetics to the pterygopalantine fossa

Answer 45

from deep petrosl nerve