Ear
Responsible for keeping external auditory canal moist and has anti-bacterial propertie
what is cerumen/earwax?
Blockage of these canals results in Glaucoma
What is the Canals of Schlemm?
This layer of the deep cervical fascia encloses the thyroid and parathyroid glands, trachea, and esophagus
What is the pretracheal fascia?
4 muscles responsible for mastication
The 3 divisions of the Trigeminal Nerve
What are the Maxillary, Ophthalmic, and Mandibular divisions?
The small bone of the ear that rests against the tympanic membrane and is the first bone to receive sounds vibrations
what is the malleus?
Opens eye voluntary via skeletal muscle innervated by CN 3
What is the Levator Palpebrae?
This muscle is responsible for extension and rotation of the neck
What is the trapezius?
This artery supplies blood to the inside of the skull and meninges, and damage causes serious intracranial bleeding that compresses the brain
What is the middle meningeal artery?
The back of the tongue is able to detect tastes and sensation because of this nerve.
What is the vagus nerve?
The two muscles that attach to auditory ossicles and are responsible for dampening down loud noises (list their innervation too)
stapedius (facial nerve VII) and tensor tympani (mandibular division of trigeminal V3
Innervated by parasympathetic neurons of the Facial Nerve CN 7 and produces watery part of tears.
What is the Lacrimal Gland?
The boundary between the anterior and posterior triangles of the neck
what is the sternocleidomastoid muscle?
TMJ movement when opening mouth
What is Depression and protraction?
The 3 large sympathetic ganglion in the cervical region
What is the superior cervical sympathetic ganglion, middle cervical sympathetic ganglion, and inferior cervical sympathetic ganglion?
Explain how stereocilia get bent
what is motion of endolymph causes motion of the tectorial membrane; stereocilia bend to open ion channels (K+) and depolarize hair cells?
The 3 layers that comprise the tear film that covers the anterior part of the eye.
What are the Lipid Layer, Aqueous Layer, and Mucin Layer?
This vessel collects all blood drainage from the brain and face
What is the internal jugular vein?
Infratemporal Fossa muscles
What is medial pterygoid and lateral pterygoid?
Damage to this nerve results in inability to close the eyelids and produce tears.
What is the facial nerve?
Contains small portions of calcium carbonate to assist with bending of stereocilia
What is the utricle and saccule (otolith)?
The 6 Extraocular Muscles that move each eyeball within its socket. (Bonus point for naming Primary Action; Super Bonus point to match each muscle with its innervating Cranial Nerve)
What are the:
This nerve plexus is derived from the cervical plexus and innervates the infrahyoid muscles. It is NOT autonomic
what is the ansa cervicalis?
Inferior alveolar artery branches from
What is maxillary artery?
This nerve is responsible for constricting the pupil and opening the eyelid.
What is the oculomotor nerve?