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Practical EXAM notes - Skull, brain, arterial supply of neck and brain, pharynx, tongue, neck, cranial nerves, orbit, mastication

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This document covers EVERYTHING you need to know to ace your practical exam on the following sections of this course!! - Head - Skull, brain, arterial supply - Head - Cranial nerves, eye, muscles of mastication - Neck - Triangles - Pharynx - Tongue Very detailed and organized notes categorized in sections of content!

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ANATOMY FINAL PRACTICAL NOTES W26
-​ Greater wing and lesser wing of sphenoid bone (butterfly shape - lesser
wing is anterior to greater wing)
-​ Mastoid process
-​ Styloid process
-​ Zygomatic bone and arch
-​ Sphenoid bone
-​ Ethmoid bone (beside lacrimal bone)
-​ Temporal bone (2 parts)​
→ Petrus part (flat)​
→ Squamous part (higher up kind of on sides)
-​ Nasal bone
-​ Lacrimal bone
-​ Vomer
-​ Cribriform plate, crista galli (ethmoid bone)
-​ Maxilla
-​ Mandible
-​ Palatine bone
-​ Inferior nasal conchae + middle nasal conchae (nose)
-​ External and internal acoustic meatus (in temporal bone)
-​ Coronoid process (on mandible)
-​ Head and neck of mandible
Osteology of the brain -​ Ramus (vertical) and angle of mandible
-​ Mental protuberance (bulge on mandible)

FORAMEN
-​ Foramen rotundum, ovale, spinosum (ROS - anterior to posterior from
mouth) ​
→ maxillary nerve (branch of trigeminal nerve) goes through foramen
rotundum
→ mandibular nerve (branch of trigeminal nerve) goes through foramen
ovale ​
→ NOTHING goes through foramen spinosum
-​ Superior orbital fissure (oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens
nerve go through here)
-​ Optic canal (optic nerve goes through here)
-​ Foramen magnum (brain stem and spinal cord go through here)
-​ Styloid mastoid foramen (facial nerve goes through here)
-​ Jugular foramen (glossopharyngeal, vagus, spinal accessory nerve goes
through here)
-​ Hypoglossal canal (hypoglossal nerve goes through here)
-​ Mental foramen (in mandible)

LOBES
-​ Frontal (front)
-​ Occipital (back)
-​ Parietal (side)
-​ Temporal (side and sits below parietal bone)

, Oh - Olfactory nerve (CN I)
Oh - Optic nerve (CN II)
Oh - Oculomotor nerve (CN III)
To - Trochlear nerve (CN IV)
Touch - Trigeminal nerve (CN V) - 3 branches V1, V2, V3 ​
→ V1 - Ophthalmic nerve​
→ V2 - Maxillary nerve​
Cranial nerves (12) → V3 - Mandibular nerve
And - Abducens nerve (CN VI)
Feel - Facial nerve (CN VII)
Very - Vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII)
Good - Glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX)
Velvet - Vagus nerve (CN X)
Ah - Spinal accessory nerve (CN XI)
Ah - Hypoglossal nerve (CN XII)

SUPERFICIAL (2)
-​ Temporalis
-​ Masseter

DEEP (2)
-​ Medial pterygoid (superficial and deep)
-​ Lateral pterygoid (superior and inferior)

Muscles of mastication -​ Medial pterygoid plate
-​ Lateral pterygoid plate
**both plates are in sphenoid bone

​ -​ Submandibular gland
*find head and neck of
mandible and put probe
diagonally ​
½ way up - lateral pterygoid
muscles
½ way down - medial pterygoid
muscles

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