Face, Parotid, Temporal Region

Question 1

What cranial nerve supplies the masseter muscle?

Answer 1

Trigeminal (V3) nerve

Question 2

What nerve innervates the master muscle?

Answer 2

Trigeminal Nerve (V3)

Question 3

What muscle attaches to the coronoid process?

Answer 3

Lateral pterygoid muscle

Question 4

The nerve that enters the mandibular foramen exits the mandible as the?

Answer 4

Mental nerve

Question 5

What branches of the trigeminal nerve are motor and which are sensory?

Answer 5

Motor - Mandibular

Sensory - Mandibular, Maxillary & Opthalmic

Question 6

Motor neurons of the trigeminal nerve are found in the:

Answer 6

Mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve

Question 7

Sensory neurons of the trigeminal nerve are found in which nerves?

Answer 7

Auriculotemporal nerve, buccal nerve, mandibular, maxillary and ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve

Question 8

Where are nerve cell bodies of neurons that are sensory to the face?

Answer 8

Trigeminal ganglion

Question 9

Which of the following nerves innervates the muscles of mastication?

Answer 9

Mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve

Question 10

The mental nerve is the terminal branch of the:

Answer 10

Inferior alveolar nerve

Question 11

Which of the following arteries transverses the foramen spinosum?

Answer 11

Middle meningeal artery

Question 12

Where does the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve exit?

Answer 12

Foramen ovale