Head and neck anatomy Board
Review Exam Questions and Answers
Bones of the neurocranium - -- frontal
- Parietal
- occipital
- Temporal
- Sphenoid
- Ethmoid
- Temporal bone landmarks. - -- the mastoid process
- styloid process
- the articular Fossa and eminence
- they stylomastoid Foramen (VII) facial nerve
- the petrous portion (housing hearing components)
- Bones of the face. - -- Maxillae (medial floor of the orbit)
- Mandible
- Zygomatic (lateral wall of floor of the orbit)
- Palatine
- nasal
- Vomer
- Inferior nasal conchae
- lacrima (the most medial bone of the orbit)
- this is a non articulated horseshoe shaped bone in the mandible, inferior to
the mandible. - -hyoid bone
- landmarks of sphenoid bone - -- greater and lesser wings
- medial and lateral pterygoid plates (origin of median and lateral pterygoid
muscles, lateral ptergoid plate)
- hamulus (projects from the medial pterygoid plat)
- Mandibular landmarks - -- body
- angle
- ramus
- condyle
- coronoid process
- retro-molar triangle
- alveolar process
- mental foramen
- external oblique ridge
- mandibular foramen
- internal oblique ridge
, - genial tubercle.
- maxillary landmarks (see these radiographically) - -- frontal process
- zygomatic process
- alveolar process
- palatine process
- anterior nasal spine
- maxillary tuberosity
- intermaxillary suture
- canine eminence
- maxillary sinus
- what nerve is the olfactory nerve - -I
Sensory
sense of smell
- what nerve is the optic nerve - -II
sensory
sense of sight
- what nerve # is the oculomotor - -III
motor
Eye muscles, pupils, lens
- what nerve # is the trochlear - -IV
Motor
eye muslces
- what nerve # is the trigeminal - -V
Both sensory and motor
ophthalmic, maxillary and mandibular divison
- what nerve # is the abducens - -VI
Motor
eye muscles
- what nerve # is the facial - -VII
both motor and sensory
muscle of facial expression.
taste (anterior 2/3 of tongue via chords tympani)
Sublingual and submandibular salivary glands (parasympathetic)
- what nerve # is the vestibulocochlear - -VIII
sensory
sense of balance and hearing (articulotemporal)
Review Exam Questions and Answers
Bones of the neurocranium - -- frontal
- Parietal
- occipital
- Temporal
- Sphenoid
- Ethmoid
- Temporal bone landmarks. - -- the mastoid process
- styloid process
- the articular Fossa and eminence
- they stylomastoid Foramen (VII) facial nerve
- the petrous portion (housing hearing components)
- Bones of the face. - -- Maxillae (medial floor of the orbit)
- Mandible
- Zygomatic (lateral wall of floor of the orbit)
- Palatine
- nasal
- Vomer
- Inferior nasal conchae
- lacrima (the most medial bone of the orbit)
- this is a non articulated horseshoe shaped bone in the mandible, inferior to
the mandible. - -hyoid bone
- landmarks of sphenoid bone - -- greater and lesser wings
- medial and lateral pterygoid plates (origin of median and lateral pterygoid
muscles, lateral ptergoid plate)
- hamulus (projects from the medial pterygoid plat)
- Mandibular landmarks - -- body
- angle
- ramus
- condyle
- coronoid process
- retro-molar triangle
- alveolar process
- mental foramen
- external oblique ridge
- mandibular foramen
- internal oblique ridge
, - genial tubercle.
- maxillary landmarks (see these radiographically) - -- frontal process
- zygomatic process
- alveolar process
- palatine process
- anterior nasal spine
- maxillary tuberosity
- intermaxillary suture
- canine eminence
- maxillary sinus
- what nerve is the olfactory nerve - -I
Sensory
sense of smell
- what nerve is the optic nerve - -II
sensory
sense of sight
- what nerve # is the oculomotor - -III
motor
Eye muscles, pupils, lens
- what nerve # is the trochlear - -IV
Motor
eye muslces
- what nerve # is the trigeminal - -V
Both sensory and motor
ophthalmic, maxillary and mandibular divison
- what nerve # is the abducens - -VI
Motor
eye muscles
- what nerve # is the facial - -VII
both motor and sensory
muscle of facial expression.
taste (anterior 2/3 of tongue via chords tympani)
Sublingual and submandibular salivary glands (parasympathetic)
- what nerve # is the vestibulocochlear - -VIII
sensory
sense of balance and hearing (articulotemporal)
