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100

A bony projection on the temporal bone—located behind your ears on each side of your skull is known as?

Mastoid Process

100

Which branch of the facial nerve courses superiorly and crosses the zygomatic bone?

Zygomatic branch

100

The thin nerve that joins the lingual nerve's posterior side high in the infratemporal fossa is known as?

Chorda Tympani

100

What is the thinnest muscle of the neck ?

Platysma

100

What are the 4 arteries that primarily supply the brain with blood?

  • 2 Vertebral (branch of 1st part of subclavian A.)
  • 2 Internal Carotid A.
200

What suture of the skull separates the frontal and parietal bones ?

Coronal Suture

200

Near the superior extent of the parotid gland, what structure can be identified?

Auriculotemporal Nerve

200

What are the branches of the external carotid A.? (Carotid Triangle)

  • Superior Thyroid A.
  • Lingual A.
  • Facial A.
  • Occipital A.
  • Post. Auricular A.
200

What are the muscles of mastication?


  • Temporalis
  • Masseter
  • Med. Pterygoid
  • Lat. Pterygoid
200

By separating the two frontal lobes, what artery joins the cerebral arteries across the midline?

- Anterior communicating A.

300

Medial to the mandibula fossa what structure can be seen descending from the base of the skull?

Styloid Process

300

What nerve runs deep to the depressor anguli oris muscle?

Mental nerve

300

What Artery and vein would run together with the Infraorbital nerve?

- Infraorbital A. and V.

300

What muscle allows for the elevation of the UPPER eyelid?

- Levator palpebrae superioris muscle 

300

Each vertebral artery gives rise to which structure just before forming the unpaired basilar A.?

Posterior Inferior Cerebellar A.

400

The nuchal ligament is attached to which external surface of the posterior skull?

External Occipital Protuberance

400

MEDIAL and DEEP to the mandibular ramus, what nerve can be found just anterior to the inferior alveolar nerve?

Lingual Nerve

400

Which Structures make up the retromandibular vein?

- Joining of the maxillary vein and superficial temporal vein

400

Name the EXTRINSIC muscles of the eyeball

SR
IR
MR
LR

400

The relatively large nerve originating from the anterolateral aspect of the pons is known as?

- CN V

500

The passageway in the temporal bone through which the internal carotid artery enters the middle cranial fossa from the neck is called?

Carotid Canal

500

What are the branches of CNVII ?

  • Temporal Branch
  • Zygomatic Branch
  • buccal
  • Mandibular branch
  • Cervical Branch
500

What arteries arise from the superior aspect of the maxillary artery ?

Anterior and posterior deep temporal artery

500
What muscle of the face allows for elevation and side-to-side movement of the mandible?

- Medial pterygoid muscle

500

What nerves emerge from the midbrain between the cerebral peduncles and exits between the Posterior cerebral artery and superior cerebellar artery?

- CN III