Upper Limb 1
Without proper function of this nerve, you would have a hard time showing off how big your biceps are.
Musculocutaneous nerve
This forgotten muscle is the primary flexor of the elbow.
Brachialis
A 75 year old woman presents to the emergency room after a fall from standing. She denies loss of consciousness. Her right leg is noticeably shorter than her left leg and is externally rotated. What vascular structure is most at risk with this injury?
Medial circumflex femoral artery
A 72-year-old man is dancing the Waltz at his nursing home when he slipped and fell on his knees. He was brought to the hospital where a doctor performed the drawer test. The test was negative, and a scan revealed a tear on the cushion of the knee. What structure is likely damaged?
Meniscus
A rapid response is called in your hospital for a 25-year-old patient who passed out after receiving his second Hepatitis B vaccine. This syncope event is named after its eponymous nerve, a cranial nerve that travels from the brain down into the abdomen. What is this nerve?
Vagus nerve (X)
A muscle that attaches to the lesser tubercle of the humerus
Subscapularis
This is the distal attachment of the triceps brachii muscle.
Olecranon process
The femoral artery travels through the ________ before becoming the popliteal artery.
Adductor canal/hiatus
What artery does the deep plantar arch directly arise from?
Lateral plantar artery
What cranial nerve is lesioned if a patient presents with loss of taste to the posterior 1/3 aspect of her tongue with a deviated uvula toward her left side?
Glossopharyngeal (IX)
These muscles collectively help stabilize the glenohumeral joint by compressing the humeral head in the glenoid cavity
Rotator cuff muscles
A hockey player is checked into the boards, which causes a compression fracture of the acromion process and associated scapular spine. Which nerve is injured?
Suprascapular nerve
When a child goes to her yearly checkup the physician asks her to hang her legs off the table while she hits the child's tibial tuberosity with a reflex hammer. The child kicks her leg out and the doctor has determined that which nerve is functioning properly?
Femoral nerve
Ligament under the head of the talus that helps support the longitudinal arch of the foot.
Plantar calcaneonavicular (spring) ligament
Which cranial nerve is responsible for innervation of the masseter, temporalis, medial pterygoid, and lateral pterygoid muscles? (Be specific)
Mandibular division of trigeminal (V3)
A 75-year old woman arrives in the emergency room after a fall on an outstretched and extended hand. She presents with the distal end of the radius displaced dorsally and an avulsed ulnar styloid process. What is her diagnosis?
Colles fracture
A nerve that pierces through the supinator muscle and emerges in the posterior compartment.
Deep radial nerve
A 16-year-old athlete falls and injures her hip due to forceful contraction of the muscles in her thigh, hearing a loud pop. She presents with a bruised hip, pain while walking, and weakened contraction of her thigh. Radiological imaging shows an avulsion fracture of which bony landmark that serves as the proximal attachment of the sartorius?
Anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS)
A 12 year old runner comes into the emergency room with pain at the back of his leg. He has pain on extension of the hip and flexion at the knee. An X-ray of the pelvis was taken and a fracture is noted. What is the most likely location of the fracture?
Ischial tuberosity (avulsion fracture)
Cranial nerve associated with the otic ganglion
Glossopharyngeal nerve (IX)
An artery that travels alongside the long thoracic nerve.
Lateral thoracic artery
Artery that travels through anatomical snuffbox
Radial artery
What is the insertion of the fibularis longus muscle?
Base of 1st metatarsal
A 25-year-old patient arrives at the emergency room after an accident during his samurai training, leading to a laceration lateral to the popliteal fossa, injuring the nerve that runs through the area. Aside from dysfunction in the lateral and anterior compartments of the leg, what other lower limb muscle is affected by this injury?
Short head of biceps femoris
A tumor in the temporal bone would affect which cranial nerves?
Facial (VII) and Vestibulocochlear (VIII)