Parotid Region
This parasympathetic ganglion controls the gland in this region.
What is otic ganglion?
These constitute the posterior and superior boundaries of the temporal fossa.
What are temporal lines?
Name the anterior border of this fossa.
What is posterior surface of maxilla?
The parasympathetic ganglion located in this fossa supplies this gland.
What is lacrimal gland?
These 8 muscles have attachments to the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage. Together they are referred to as...
What are strap muscles?
The parotid duct opens to this location in the oral cavity.
What is the buccal surface at the 2nd upper premolar?
The muscle in this region is responsible for these actions of the mandible.
What is elevation and retraction?
Which muscle makes a boundary of this region?
These two nerves carry the pre and postsynaptic fibers for the parasympathetic ganglion named for this fossa.
What are greater petrosal (from facial nerve) and maxillary division of trigeminal nerve?
Presynaptic fibers to the otic ganglion are carried by this nerve.
Name the medial border of this region.
What is ramus of the mandible?
The artery in this region is a branch from...
What is external carotid?
The mandibular division of trigeminal nerve gives 3 branches in this fossa. Name them.
What are inferior alveolar, lingual, and buccal?
What is modified hinge + synovial?
What is masseter?
The infratemporal crest separates this region from....
What is facial nerve (CN IX)?
Buccinator is considered a muscle of facial expression although it plays a functional role in mastication for this reason [there are 2 correct reasons].
What are 1) it does not have 2 bony attachments and 2) it is innervated by the facial nerve?
What is cervical, marginal mandibular, buccal, zygomatic, and temporal?
Temporal pulse can be located by pressing the superficial temporal artery against this bony landmark.
What is the zygomatic process of the temporal bone?
The parasympathetic ganglion located in this fossa supplies this structure...
What is the parotid gland?
Which 5 other regions does the pterygopalatine fossa connect to?
What are infratemporal fossa, nasal cavity, orbital cavity, oral cavity, and middle cranial fossa?
Name the branches of the pterygoid part of the maxillary artery.