Head and Neck Anatomy
Cranial Nerves
Misc.
Anatomy and Physiology
Systems of the Body
100
Saliva empties into the oral cavity from the largest salivary gland through this duct.
What is the Stensen's duct?
(Parotid Gland)
100
The cranial nerve responsible for the sense of smell.
(Name and number)
What is the olfactory nerve (CN I)?
100
Term used to explain farther from the point of attachment of a limb to a body trunk.
What is Distal?
100
Located behind the sternum in the thoracic cavity and is the size of the human fist.
What is the heart?
100
Part of the autonomic nervous system, it's responsible for the "fight or flight" response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
200
A muscle of facial expression that functions to pull the mouth laterally, thereby shortening the cheek, and as an aid in keeping food on the chewing surfaces of the teeth.
What is the buccinator muscle?
200
This cranial nerve provides motor innervation to the muscles of mastication.
(Name and number)
What is the trigeminal nerve (CN V)?
200
Cranial bone that contains the foramen magnum, allowing the spinal cord to connect to the brain.
What is the occipital bone?
200
These vessels carry blood away from the heart to the body.
What are arteries?
200
Palpate these along the inferior border of the mandible, superficial to the submandibular gland.
What are the submandibular nodes?
300
This single bone articulates with the frontal, parietal, ethmoid, temporal, zygomatic, maxillary, palatine, vomer, and occipital bones.
What is the sphenoid bone?
300
This cranial nerve innervates the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles.
(Name and number)
What is the accessory nerve (XI)?
300
Major salivary gland that produces the highest proportion of mucous secretions.
What is the sublingual gland?
300
Microscopic vessels that connect arterioles to venules.
What are capillaries?
300
Structure in the lymphatic system responsible for the production and maturation of T-lymphocytes.
What is the thymus gland?
400
It supplies blood to the principal areas of the oral cavity and face by branching off anteriorly, medially, posteriorly and terminally.
What is the external carotid artery?
400
It's the cranial nerve is involved in both hearing and balance.
(Name and Number)
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII, 8)?
400
The landmark and nerves for the mental block injection.
What are the mental foramen/inferior alveolar nerve; mental and incisive nerve branches of V3?
400
This "master gland" has a stem-like stalk and serves as a storage site for anti-diuretic hormone and oxytocin.
What is the pituitary gland?
400
The two types of immunity, one that provides general defense that acts against anything foreign, and one that that recognizes specific threatening agents.
What are nonspecific (innate) immunity and specific (adaptive) immunity?
500
Muscle of mastication that orginates at the inferior border of the zygomatic arch, inserts on the lateral surface angle of the mandible, and acts to elevate the mandible.
What is the masseter muscle?
500
Damage to this cranial nerve would result in ptosis (drooping of the upper eyelid), mydriasis (dilated pupil), and the eye being positioned "down and out."
What is the oculomotor nerve (CN III)?
500
Bone forming cells that deposit calcium for remodeling.
What are osteoblasts?
500
Horomones released by the adrenal medulla in response to sympathetic stimulation.
What are epinephrine and norepinephrine?
500
These "ductless glands" are made of glandular epithelium whose cells manufacture and secrete hormones.
What are endocrine glands?