Para-/Thyroid Anatomy

General Anatomy

100

Vertebral levels of the thyroid.

What is C5 to T1?

200

What structure does the thyroid extend to? What movement impacts the thyroid's location?

What is the larynx? What is swallowing?

300

The usual number of parathyroid glands.

What is 4?

400

What fascial structure encloses the thyroid?

What is pretracheal?

Neurovasculature

100

These two branches are the origin of the superior and inferior thyroid artery.

What is the 1st branch of the external carotid and branch of thyrocervical trunck?

200

This artery supplies the parathyroid glands.

What is the inferior thyroid artery?

300

This artery is present in 10% of people, supplies the isthmus of the gland and originates from an artery that we are well acquainted with. (List both the name and origin of the artery).

What are the Ima and brachiocephalic arteries?

400

This nerve provides parasympathetic innervation of the thyroid gland.

What is the Vagus nerve?

Embryology

100

The germ layer that the thyroid originates from.

What is the endoderm?

200

The most common site for ectopic thyroid tissue deposition in embryological faults.

What is sub-lingual?

300

Site for cyst development when this structure does not recede after decent of the thyroid.

Thyroglossal duct.