CMM 401

Question 1

Main bone that creates the cheekbone.

Answer 1

Zigomatic bone

Question 2

Gland that produces tears.

Answer 2

Lacrimal gland

Question 3

Part of the eye that contains aqueous humor.

Answer 3

Anterior chamber

Question 4

Thin muscle that tenses skin of inferior face and neck.

Answer 4

Platysma

Question 5

Opening in the floor of skull.

Answer 5

Foramen magnum

Question 6

Which nerve innervates the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles.

Answer 6

CN XI, accessory spinal nerve

Question 7

Two process of the mandible.

Answer 7

Coronoid and condylar

Question 8

Three ear ossicles within petrous temporal.

Answer 8

Malleus, incus, stapes

Question 9

Two glands that produce saliva.

Answer 9

Parotid and submandibular gland

Question 10

Artery at risk of bleeding if pterion is fractured.

Answer 10

Middle meningeal artery

Question 11

Which artery is vulnerable to bleeding from a fracture of the pterion?

Answer 11

Middle meningeal artery

Question 12

The vertebral arteries drain into what artery.

Answer 12

Basilar artery

Question 13

The muscle that depresses the tongue and is innervated by CN XII.

Answer 13

Hypoglossus

Question 14

What muscle is responsible for elevating and furrowing the eyebrows?

Answer 14

Frontalis

Question 15

Muscle responsible for elevating superior eyelid.

Answer 15

Levator palpabrea superioris

Question 16

Eye movement muscle that is innervated by CN VI.

Answer 16

Lateral rectus

Question 17

The space between the arachnoid and pia mater containing cerebrospinal fluid.

Answer 17

Subarachnoid space

Question 18

Eye muscle responsible for abducting, elevating, and laterally rotating eye eyeball.

Answer 18

Inferior oblique

Question 19

The thin middle layer of connective tissue covering the CNS.

Answer 19

Arachnoid mater

Question 20

Artery that branches from the ophthalmic artery and supplies the superior face.

Answer 20

Supraorbital artery

Question 21

Which structure is vulnerable to infection due to venous connection to external face.

Answer 21

Cavernous sinus

Question 22

What nerve innervates the platysma muscle?

Answer 22

CN VII- facial

Question 23

Muscle that protracts mandible and depresses chin to open jaw.

Answer 23

Lateral pterygoid

Question 24

Which nerve provides parasympathetic innervation to the eye.

Answer 24

CN III- oculomotor

Question 25

What is the opening on the medial side of the mandibular ramus?

Answer 25

Mandibular foramen

Question 26

What structure assists in refraction for visual focus.

Answer 26

Lens

Question 27

Tears drain from orbit to nasal cavity via which structure.

Answer 27

Nasolacrimal duct

Question 28

What is the air pocket in the maxillary bone?

Answer 28

Maxillary sinus

Question 29

What three structures transmit vibrations to inner ear to detect sound.

Answer 29

Malleus, incus, and stapes

Question 30

Flat portion of the temporal bone.

Answer 30

Squamous part of temporal bone

Question 31

What structure branches off of CN VII, then "hitchhikes" on the lingual nerve.

Answer 31

Chorda tympani

Question 32

Which cranial nerve originates in the superior spinal cord.

Answer 32

CN XI- spinal accessory

Question 33

Tough outer layer of connective tissue covering the CNS.

Answer 33

Dura mater

Question 34

The pituitary gland rests above what structure in the skull.

Answer 34

Sella turcica

Question 35

The foramen spinosum is associated with which vessel.

Answer 35

Middle meningeal artery

Question 36

What artery supplies blood to the deep neck and brain via the circle of willis?

Answer 36

Vertebral artery

Question 37

What muscle closes, protrudes, and moves lips.

Answer 37

Orbicularis oris

Question 38

Isolated bone in the neck above the thyroid cartilage.

Answer 38

Hyoid

Question 39

The deepest very thin layer of connective tussue covering the CNS.

Answer 39

Pia mater

Question 40

This muscle passes deep to the zygomatic bone and assists with mastication.

Answer 40

Temporalis muscle