Cranial Nerves
If you stick out your tongue and it deviates to the right, which cranial nerve is injured?
The right hypoglossal
what creates CSF?
the choroid plexus
List the contents of the carotid sheath
vagus nerve
common and internal carotid arteries
internal jugular vein
In what triangle is the thryoid gland found in?
muscular
Which foramen are located in the posterior cranial fossa (hint : 4)
foramen magnum
jugular foramen
hypoglossal canal
IAM
what provides parasympathetic innervation to the submandibular gland?
facial nerve
Which cranial nerve orginates on the pons?
CN V
What acts as a pressure receptor, reacting to changes in blood pressure?
Carotid sinus
Which nerve supplies the stylohyoid muscle?
Cn VII (facial)
the circle of willis helps to protect the brain from gradual development of what?
ischemic strokes
The gag reflex test integrity of which cranial nerves?
glosspharyngeal and vagus
WHAT is the bregma?
where coronal and sagittal sutures meet
Where does the phrenic nerve arise from?
C3 - C5
what nerve provides motor innervation to the styloglossus?
hypoglossal nerve
What are the two parts of the cranium?
the neurocranium and
viscerocranium
Which cranail nerves are resposible for affertent and effernt part of puilparly light reflex?
Optic Nerve- afferent
Efferent- oculomotor nerve
What bone is the sella turcia apart of?
the sphenoid bone
What provides motor innervation to most of the infrahyoid muscles?
ansa cervicalilis
Name the branches of the external carotid artery
Superior Thyroid
Ascending pharyengeal
Lingual
Facial
Occupital
Posterior Auricular
Superifical temporal
Maxillary
Name the four lobes of the brain and their functions
Frontal- planning, language, motor, personality
Parietal- Sensory, attention
Temporal- Auditory processing, memory
Occipital- visual processing
Injury to which nerve causes lack of taste in the posterior 1/3 of the tongue?
glossopharyngeal
Which cranial foramen does the middle meningeal artery pass through?
foramen spinosum
Name the borders of the carotid triangle
SCM
posterior diagastric
Superior omohyoid
Name the arteries that make up the circle of Willis
Anterior cerebral artery
anterior communicating artery
interal carotid artieres
posterior cerebral arteries
posterior communicating arteries
Which cranial nerves pass through the cavernous sinus?
ocuolomtor
trochlear
V1, v2
Abducens