Cranial Nerves
Skull?
Cervical triangles
Choose at your own risk
Brain
100


If you stick out your tongue and it deviates to the right, which cranial nerve is injured?

The right hypoglossal

100

what creates CSF?

the choroid plexus

100

List the contents of the carotid sheath

vagus nerve 

common and internal carotid arteries 

internal jugular vein 

100

In what triangle is the thryoid gland found in?

muscular

100

Which foramen are located in the posterior cranial fossa (hint : 4)

foramen magnum

jugular foramen

hypoglossal canal

IAM

200

what provides parasympathetic innervation to the submandibular gland?

facial nerve 

200

Which cranial nerve orginates on the pons?

CN V

200

What acts as a pressure receptor, reacting to changes in blood pressure?

Carotid sinus 

200

Which nerve supplies the stylohyoid muscle?

Cn VII (facial) 

200

the circle of willis helps to protect the brain from gradual development of what?

ischemic strokes 

300

The gag reflex test integrity of which cranial nerves? 

glosspharyngeal and vagus

300

WHAT is the bregma?

where coronal and sagittal sutures meet

300

Where does the phrenic nerve arise from?

C3 - C5 

300

what nerve provides motor innervation to the styloglossus?

hypoglossal nerve 

300

What are the two parts of the cranium?

the neurocranium and 

viscerocranium 

400

Which cranail nerves are resposible for affertent and effernt part of puilparly light reflex?

Optic Nerve- afferent 

Efferent- oculomotor nerve 

400

What bone is the sella turcia apart of?

the sphenoid bone

400

What provides motor innervation to most of the infrahyoid muscles?

ansa cervicalilis

400

Name the branches of the external carotid artery

Superior Thyroid

Ascending pharyengeal 

Lingual 

Facial 

Occupital 

Posterior Auricular

Superifical temporal 

Maxillary 

400

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 



500

Injury to which nerve causes lack of taste in the posterior 1/3 of the tongue?

glossopharyngeal

500

Which cranial foramen does the middle meningeal artery pass through?

foramen spinosum

500

Name the borders of the carotid triangle

SCM 

posterior diagastric 

Superior omohyoid 

500

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 

500

Which cranial nerves pass through the cavernous sinus?

ocuolomtor

trochlear 

V1, v2 

Abducens 

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