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Nervous System & Back
Upper Limb
Thorax
Abdomen
Lower Limb
100
What are the three main target tissues innervated by the autonomic nervous system?
What is smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and glands?
100
Name the muscles of the rotator cuff?
What are the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and subscapularis muscles?
100
The major group of lymph nodes that drain 75% of lymph from the breast.
What is the axillary group of lymph nodes?
100
A structure that spans from the anterior superior iliac spine to the pubic tubercle
What is the inguinal ligament?
100
Innervates the anterior compartment of the leg
What is the deep fibular nerve?
200
Which division of the autonomic nervous system controls increased salivation?
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
200
A vessel in the cubital fossa often used for blood draws and intravenous injection
What is the median cubital vein?
200
A branch of a coronary artery that lies in the left coronary (atrioventricular) sulcus
What is the circumflex artery?
200
A type of hernia that enters through the deep inguinal ring.
What is an indirect inguinal hernia?
200
Tendinous insertion of the gastrocnemius, soleus and plantaris muscles
What is the calcaneal (Achilles) tendon?
300
An area of skin innervated by a single spinal root
What is a dermatome?
300
Nerve affected in carpal tunnel syndrome.
What is the median nerve?
300
A clinical emergency in which blood is found in the pleural cavity.
What is a hemothorax?
300
An organ that occupies the right upper quadrant (RUQ) and detoxifies substances absorbed by the GI tract
What is the liver?
300
The structures that compose the "unhappy triad" of the knee joint.
What is medial meniscus, anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament?
400
The spinalis, longissimus and iliocostalis muscles belong to this muscle group of the back.
What is the erector spinae group of muscles?
400
A terminal branch of the brachial plexus that would most likely be damaged by injury to the pisiform and hamate bones.
What is the ulnar nerve?
400
A surface feature of the thorax that marks the bifurcation of the trachea.
What is the sternal angle?
400
Nerve plexus that innervates structures of the foregut.
What is the celiac plexus?
400
A tributary of the femoral vein that receives the small saphenous vein in the popliteal fossa.
What is the popliteal vein?
500
An extrinsic muscle of the back that attaches to the humerus.
What is the latissimus dorsi muscle?
500
This branch of the axillary artery supplies the pectoral muscles.
What is the thoracoacromial trunk (artery)?
500
The chamber of the heart with openings for the superior vena cava, inferior vena cava, and coronary sinus.
What is right atrium?
500
A direct branch of the abdominal aorta that supplies the distal 1/3 of the transverse colon, the descending colon, and sigmoid colon.
What is the inferior mesenteric artery?
500
Injury to this nerve of the lumbar plexus results in weakened adduction and external rotation of hip
What is the obturator nerve?