2 A&P II Cerebral Arterial Circulation

Question 1

1

Answer 1

Aortic arch

Question 2

2

Answer 2

Brachiocephalic trunk

Question 3

3

Answer 3

Right subclavian artery

Question 4

4

Answer 4

Right common carotid artery

Question 5

5

Answer 5

Right external carotid artery

Question 6

6

Answer 6

Right internal carotid artery

Question 7

7

Answer 7

Superior thyroid artery

Question 8

8

Answer 8

Lingual artery

Question 9

9

Answer 9

Facial artery

Question 10

10

Answer 10

Occipital artery

Question 11

11a/b

Answer 11

Maxillary artery/Superficial temporal artery

Question 12

12

Answer 12

Right vertebral artery

Question 13

13

Answer 13

Left vertebral artery

Question 14

14

Answer 14

Left internal carotid artery

Question 15

15

Answer 15

Left external carotid artery

Question 16

16

Answer 16

Left common carotid artery

Question 17

17

Answer 17

Left subclavian artery

Question 18

18

Answer 18

Opthalmic artery

Question 19

19

Answer 19

Right middle cerebral artery

Question 20

20

Answer 20

Right anterior cerebral artery

Question 21

21

Answer 21

Left anterior cerebral artery

Question 22

22

Answer 22

Anterior communicating artery

Question 23

23

Answer 23

Basilar artery

Question 24

24

Answer 24

Right posterior communicating artery

Question 25

25

Answer 25

Left posterior communicating artery

Question 26

26

Answer 26

Right posterior cerebral artery

Question 27

27

Answer 27

Left posterior cerebral artery

Question 28

28

Answer 28

Cerebral arterial circle/Circle of Willis

Question 29

29

Answer 29

Left middle cerebral artery

Question 30

30

Answer 30

Opthalmic artery

Question 31

How many brachiocephalic arteries are there? Brachiocephalic veins?

Answer 31

One artery on the right, two veins

Question 32

Which jugular vein is larger, internal or external?

Answer 32

Internal

Question 33

What is the dural venous sinus?

Answer 33

Thin walled vessel that drains deoxygenated blood from the veins

Question 34

What arteries branch off of the brachiocephalic artery?

Answer 34

Right common carotid and right subclavian

Question 35

What are the branches off of the external carotid?

Answer 35

Superior thyroid
Lingual
Facial
Occipital
Maxillary 
Superficial temporal

Question 36

What are the branches off of the internal carotid artery?

Answer 36

Ophthalmic
Middle cerebral
Anterior cerebral

Question 37

What branches off the subclavian arteries?

Answer 37

Vertebral arteries

Question 38

Where do the vertebral arteries travel?

Answer 38

Through the transverse foramen in the spinal column

Question 39

What do the vertebral arteries merge to make?

Answer 39

Basilar artery

Question 40

Where do the left subclavian and common carotid branch from?

Answer 40

Aortic arch