Osteology
The conoid tubercle is located on this bone
What is the clavicle?
Sensory innervation of the fibrous and parietal layers of the pericardium is primarily provided by this nerve
What is the phrenic nerve?
Below this horizontal structure, there is no posterior layer of rectus sheath, and the rectus abdominis rests directly on transversalis fascia.
What is the arcuate line?
The superficial cervical lymph nodes lie along this vessel.
What is the external jugular vein?
The trapezoid body contains decussating fibers from these nuclei.
What are the cochlear nuclei?
The linea aspera is located on this surface of the femur.
What is the posterior surface of the shaft of the femur?
This part of the body is not drained by the thoracic duct.
What is the right upper quadrant (right side of head and neck, right upper limb, right hemithorax)?
The superior recess of the lesser sac extends upwards behind this lobe of the liver.
What is the caudate lobe?
Lesion of the cervical sympathetic chain can result in this syndrome characterized by ptosis, miosis, and anhidrosis.
What is Horner’s syndrome?
A lesion of the abducens nerve at the pontine level may also affect this nearby motor pathway, resulting in hemiparesis.
What is the corticospinal tract?
The classic “unhappy triad” (or “terrible triad”) of the knee involves injury to these three specific structures.
What are the medial meniscus, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), and medial (tibial) collateral ligament (TCL)?
The thoracodorsal artery is a branch of this artery.
What is the subscapular artery? (axillary artery)
The splenic vein receives these two major tributaries from the stomach.
What are the short gastric veins and the left gastroepiploic vein?
A patient with facial paralysis but normal hearing is likely associated with a lesion of the facial nerve at this anatomical landmark.
What is the stylomastoid foramen? OR What is distal to the nerve to stapedius?
An ipsilateral Babinski sign can be caused by a lesion in this anatomical structure.
This rudimentary bony process found on the posterior aspect of the superior articular process of lumbar vertebrae.
What is the mamillary process?
Erb’s palsy (waiter's tip position) results from injury to these specific parts of the brachial plexus.
What are the C5 and C6 roots?
Injury to this nerve at the fibular neck results in foot drop due to loss of dorsiflexion and eversion.
What is the common fibular (peroneal) nerve?
Drainage of this structure occurs in the inferior nasal meatus.
What is the nasolacrimal duct?
The upper limb equivalent of the posterior spinocerebellar tract is this tract.
What is the cuneocerebellar tract?
The thoracic outlet syndrome often results from compression of these structures as they pass between the clavicle and first rib.
What are the subclavian artery, subclavian vein, and lower trunk of the brachial plexus?
The winged scapula appearance is caused by damage to a nerve containing these brachial plexus roots.
What are C5, C6, and C7?
The close relationship of the ureter to the uterine artery in the female pelvis is remembered clinically by this phrase.
What is “water under the bridge”?
The oculomotor nerve passes between these two arteries and is vulnerable to compression by an aneurysm in the interpeduncular cistern.
What are the posterior cerebral artery and superior cerebellar artery?
Contralateral hemiparesis predominantly affecting the face and upper limb, contralateral hemisensory loss, contralateral homonymous hemianopia, and aphasia would be caused by occlusion of this artery.
What is the left middle cerebral artery?