The Face

Question 1

What bone of the skull is on the side of the head, towards the anterior and is anterior to the temporal bone? Its shape somewhat resembles that of a butterfly or bat with its wings extended.

Answer 1

Sphenoid Bone

Question 2

What bone of the skull makes up the forehead?

Answer 2

Frontal Bone

Question 3

What is the smallest and most fragile bone of the skull? It is located close the the eye.

Answer 3

Lacrimal Bones

Question 4

What bones form the bridge of the nose?

Answer 4

Nasal Bones

Question 5

What bone forms the prominence of the cheek?

Answer 5

Zygomatic Bone

Question 6

What bones form the sides and the roof of the skull?

Answer 6

Parietal Bones

Question 7

What bone of the skull is situated around the temple?

Answer 7

Temporal Bone

“Temp” is in both

Question 8

What bone makes up the back of the skull?

Answer 8

Occipital Bone

Question 9

What bone makes up the lower jaw?

Answer 9

Mandible

Question 10

What bones make up the upper jaw?

Answer 10

Maxilla

Question 11

What are the muscles of facial expression?

Answer 11

Orbicularis Oculi
Orbicularis Oris
Frontalis
Auricularis
Nasalis
Mentalis
Buccinator
Platysma

Question 12

What are the muscles of mastication?

Answer 12

Masseter
Temporalis
Lateral Pterygoid
Medial Pterygoid

Question 13

What innervates the muscles of facial expression?

Answer 13

Facial Nerve (CN VII)

Question 14

What innervates the muscles of mastication?

Answer 14

Mandibular Nerve (CN V-3)

which is a branch of the Trigeminal Nerve (CN V)

Question 15

What muscle allows you to squint your eyes?

Answer 15

Orbicularis Oculi

Question 16

What muscle allows you to pucker for a kiss?

Answer 16

Orbicularis Oris

Question 17

What muscle allows you to wrinkle your brow?

Answer 17

Frontalis

Question 18

What muscles allow you to wiggle your ear?

Answer 18

Auricularis

Question 19

What is the main sensory nerve of the face?

Answer 19

Trigeminal (CN V)

Question 20

What are the branches of the trigeminal nerve?

Answer 20

Opthalmic (CN V-1)
Maxillary (CN V-2)
Mandibular (CN V-3)

Question 21

What are the branches of the opthalmic nerve V-1?

Answer 21

Supraorbital

Supratrochlear

Question 22

What are the branches of the maxillary nerve V-2?

Answer 22

Infraorbital

Question 23

What are the branches of the mandibular nerve V-3?

Answer 23

Auriculotemporal
Lingual
Inferior Alveolar
-Mental

Question 24

What is the main motor nerve of the face?

Answer 24

Facial (CN VII)

Question 25

What are the branches of the facial nerve?

Answer 25

``` Temporal Zygomatic Buccal Mandibular Cervical ``` “Ten Zebras Bought My Car”

Question 26

Which of the trigeminal nerves are purely sensory?

Answer 26

V-1 and V-2 are purely sensory. V-3, the mandibular nerve, carries both motor and sensory branches.

Question 27

What receives the parasympathetic branches? What are the parasympathetic branches in the face?

Answer 27

The parotid and submandibular glands/ CN VII and IX are the parasympathetic branches

Question 28

What are the branches of the external carotid artery?

Answer 28

``` Superior Thyroid Ascending Pharyngeal Lingual Facial Occipital Posterior Auricular Maxillary Superficial Temporal ``` SALFORMS

Question 29

What runs through the pterygomaxillary fissure?

Answer 29

Maxillary Artery

Question 30

Where is the weak part of the skull?

Answer 30

Pterion

Question 31

What runs beneath the pterion that is vulnerable to injury?

Answer 31

Middle Meningeal Artery

Question 32

Describe the flow of lymph in the face.

Answer 32

Flow goes from superficial nodes to deep cervical nodes to the thoracic duct or the right lymphatic duct

Question 33

What are the superficial lymph nodes?

Answer 33

``` Occipital Mastoid Parotid Superficial Cervical Submandibular Submental ```

Question 34

What are the deep lymph nodes?

Answer 34

Jugulodigastric (Upper Deep Cervical) | Juguloomohyoid (Lower Deep Cervical)

Question 35

What is the arterial supply of the face?

Answer 35

Facial Artery Superficial Temporal Artery Maxillary Artery

Question 36

What are some important branches of the maxillary artery?

Answer 36

Mandibular Part - Middle Meningeal Artery - Inferior Alveolar Artery Pterygopalatine Part - Posterior Superior Alveolar Artery - Infraorbital Artery - Descending Palatine Artery - Sphenopalatine Artery

Question 37

What is the temporomandibular joint?

Answer 37

A joint of the jaw between the mandible and the temporal bone that can sometimes have a slipped disc that leads to great pain.