Know Your BONES
A bony projection on the temporal bone—located behind your ears on each side of your skull is known as?
Mastoid Process
Which branch of the facial nerve courses superiorly and crosses the zygomatic bone?
Zygomatic branch
The thin nerve that joins the lingual nerve's posterior side high in the infratemporal fossa is known as?
Chorda Tympani
What is the thinnest muscle of the neck ?
Platysma
What are the 4 arteries that primarily supply the brain with blood?
What suture of the skull separates the frontal and parietal bones ?
Coronal Suture
Near the superior extent of the parotid gland, what structure can be identified?
Auriculotemporal Nerve
What are the branches of the external carotid A.? (Carotid Triangle)
What are the muscles of mastication?
By separating the two frontal lobes, what artery joins the cerebral arteries across the midline?
- Anterior communicating A.
Medial to the mandibula fossa what structure can be seen descending from the base of the skull?
Styloid Process
What nerve runs deep to the depressor anguli oris muscle?
Mental nerve
What Artery and vein would run together with the Infraorbital nerve?
- Infraorbital A. and V.
What muscle allows for the elevation of the UPPER eyelid?
- Levator palpebrae superioris muscle
Each vertebral artery gives rise to which structure just before forming the unpaired basilar A.?
Posterior Inferior Cerebellar A.
The nuchal ligament is attached to which external surface of the posterior skull?
External Occipital Protuberance
MEDIAL and DEEP to the mandibular ramus, what nerve can be found just anterior to the inferior alveolar nerve?
Lingual Nerve
Which Structures make up the retromandibular vein?
- Joining of the maxillary vein and superficial temporal vein
Name the EXTRINSIC muscles of the eyeball
SR
IR
MR
LR
The relatively large nerve originating from the anterolateral aspect of the pons is known as?
- CN V
The passageway in the temporal bone through which the internal carotid artery enters the middle cranial fossa from the neck is called?
Carotid Canal
What are the branches of CNVII ?
What arteries arise from the superior aspect of the maxillary artery ?
Anterior and posterior deep temporal artery
- Medial pterygoid muscle
What nerves emerge from the midbrain between the cerebral peduncles and exits between the Posterior cerebral artery and superior cerebellar artery?
- CN III