Arteries/Veins
What artery supplies the thyroid gland?
What is Superior and inferior thyroid arteries?
What nerve supplies the muscles of the tongue? Whats the exception?
What is Hypoglossal nerve (CN XII) and Palatoglossus muscle?
Which muscle abducts the vocal folds?
What is Posterior cricoarytenoid muscle?
Where do sympathetic fibers that innervate the head originate?
What is the thoracolumbar region of the spinal cord (T1-L2), specifically ascending to synapse in the superior cervical ganglion?
What exits through the cribriform plate?
What is Olfactory nerve (CN I)?
Name the vein that drains the brain and face.
What is Internal jugular vein?
Which areas are innervated by the greater palatine and nasopalatine nerves?
What is the hard palate, with the greater palatine nerve supplying the posterior part and the nasopalatine nerve supplying the anterior part?
What action does the platysma muscle perform?
Draws the mandible down, widens mouth in a frown
Which cranial nerve provides parasympathetic fibers to the parotid gland?
Glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX)
What exits through the optic canal?
Optic nerve (CN II) and ophthalmic artery
What is the main function of the carotid sinus?
What is Senses changes in blood pressure?
Which nerves provide motor and sensory innervation to the buccal region, and how are they functionally different?
What are the buccal branch of the facial nerve (CN VII) for motor innervation to the buccinator muscle, and the buccal nerve (branch of V3) for sensory innervation to the mucosa and skin of the cheek?
What is the main action of the sternocleidomastoid muscle?
Turns face to opposite side, tilts head to the same side
Where do parasympathetic fibers of CN III synapse?
Ciliary ganglion
What exits the foramen magnum?
Spinal cord, vertebral arteries, spinal portion of the accessory nerve (CN XI)
What two veins join to form the external jugular vein?
What is Posterior auricular vein and the posterior division of the retromandibular vein?
The trigeminal nerve (CN V) is the main sensory nerve of the face. Which branch of CN V is responsible for sensory innervation of the upper teeth and gingiva?
What is the maxillary nerve (V2), specifically the superior alveolar nerves?
Which muscle elevates the pharynx and larynx during swallowing? What is innervated by?
What is the stylopharyngeus muscle?
What parasympathetic ganglion is associated with the facial nerve?
Pterygopalatine and submandibular ganglia
What exits the jugular foramen?
Glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX), Vagus nerve (CN X), Accessory nerve (CN XI), and internal jugular vein
The external carotid artery has eight branches. Name them all in order (inferior to superior)
What is Superior thyroid artery, ascending pharyngeal artery, lingual artery, facial artery, occipital artery, posterior auricular artery, maxillary artery, superficial temporal artery?
The glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX) innervates the stylopharyngeus muscle. Which additional structure in the head and neck does this nerve provide sensory innervation to?
What is the carotid body and carotid sinus?
What is the action of the tensor veli palatini muscle, and which cranial nerve innervates it?
What is tensing the soft palate, innervated by the mandibular nerve (V3 of CN V)?
Describe the pathway of the lesser petrosal nerve
Branches from glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX), passes through the foramen ovale to the otic ganglion, innervates parotid gland?
What structures pass through the foramen ovale?
What are the mandibular nerve (V3 of CN V), accessory meningeal artery, and lesser petrosal nerve?