Muscle Mumbo Jumbo
The transverse cervical artery was damaged in a car wreck. The muscle affected is
Trapezius
A hole in which your vertebral arteries and brain stem can travel through
What is foramen magnum?
This nerve impairment caused this patient to present with a droopy eyelid, pupil stays dilated, and eye is drifted downward and laterally. The patient states they still have vision in the eye and can blink normally but cannot open their eye more or look towards their nose.
What is Oculomotor?
This muscle of the suboccipital triangle attaches to the inferior nuchal line from the spinous process of the axis and extends the head and rotates it to the same side.
What is Rectus Capitis Posterior Major?
In your clin found practical, your patient fell down the stairs but you still passed! Your eyebrows shot up in surprise, the muscle responsible is?
What is Occipitofrontalis?
This nerve innervates the anterior belly of the digastric and the mylohyoid
N. to Mylohyoid
This canal is so conviently named after the nerve that runs through it but you SAW that coming ;)
Patient presents with weakness performing shoulder shrugs on the right side, and weakness flexing their head and rotating to the left. They report no sensory loss. This nerve may be affected.
What is Spinal Accessory nerve?
This muscle of the eye that is innervated by the oculomotor N, pulls the eyeball down and laterally when it contracts
Superior oblique muscle
A lecturer in class asks who you define as a leader? You open your mouth to say Obama but someone answers before you to say "Jesus", you think to yourself, "this is not the crowd" and you quickly shut your mouth, this muscle is
What is Orbicularis Oris?
This muscle pulls on the eye and when it contracts it draws the eye down and out.
Superior Oblique
You can find your middle meningeal artery internal in your skull through this foramen.
What is foramen spinosum?
A patient presents with deviation of their jaw to the right when they close their jaw and impaired sensation to their right side of their face. You know it is this nerve being impaired (Be Specific!).
What is Right Trigeminal N?
These deep segmental muscles are accessory muscles of inspiration due to their attachement from the transverse processes of vertebrae to the ribs
What is Levator Costorum?
You found out your donor in gross lab got mold and now you are donorless, you get real sad and form a deep frown, this muscle is.
What is Depressor anguli oris?
This "nerve" innervates the omohyoid, sternohyoid, and the sternothyroid
Ansa Cervicalis
This is so loving nicknamed the "Rando Hole" by Dr. Davis
What is Foramen Lacerum?
A patient has had multiple salivary stones in the submandibular duct, The patients submandibular glad was surgically removed. This major artery is a special concern to the surgeon.
What is Facial artery?
This deep intrinsic muscle group attaches from the transverse processes to the spinouse processes of vertebrae and acts to bilaterally extend the vertebral column and unilaterally contract to do ipsilateral sidebending and contralateral rotation.
What is Semispinalis group?
You've slept a total of 6 hours this week because you've been studying gross unit 4 so intensely. You have a massive headache and have to sit in class until 5 pm followed by a mock practical until 7 and you have 4 assignments due tonight. Then your biggest hater says hi and you fake a smile. What muscle is this?
What is Risorius?
A six-year-old child, whose medical history includes a rather difficult birth, has a permanently tilted head posture, with the right ear near the right shoulder and the face turned upward and to the left. This muscle was damaged during birth.
Sternocleidomastoid
The branches of the trigeminal nerve: Opthalmic (V1), Maxillary (V2), Mandibular (V3) run through these holes, list them in order.
What is Superior Orbital Fissure (V1), Foramen Rotundum (V2), and Foramen Ovale (V3)
A patient lost a game of what are the odds and had to do a handstand in the bar, but they fell onto a broken bottle that pierced so far deep to his parotid gland it stricked this important structure and he bled out and died.
What is External carotid artery?
This muscle draws the hyoid bone forward to assist in opening the mandible.
What is Geniohyoid?
You are doing rotation questions in gross lab and you walk up to someone's donor who has been smelling stronger each day, you scrunch your nose at the scent and snarl your lip in digust, this muscle is?
What is Levator Labii superioris alaeque nasi?