Head Anatomy

Question 1

What kind of joints are skull sutures?

Answer 1

Fibrous Joints

Question 2

What form of ossification forms the bones of the skull

Answer 2

Intramembranous Ossification

Question 3

What is the function of the skull?

Answer 3

To protect the brain, meninges and cerebral vasculature

Question 4

What is the calvarium made up of?

Answer 4

Frontal, occipital and two parietal bones

Question 5

What makes up the cranial base?

Answer 5

Frontal, sphenoid, ethmoid, occipital, parietal and temporal bones.

Question 6

What part of the bone houses red marrow?

Answer 6

Diploe

Question 7

What does the sagittal suture fuse?

Answer 7

right and left parietal bones

Question 8

What does the coronal suture fuse?

Answer 8

Frontal and parietal bones

Question 9

What does the lambdoid suture fuse?

Answer 9

occipital, left and right parietal, temporal bones

Question 10

What bone is the occipital protuberance part of?

Answer 10

Occipital bone

Question 11

What bone is the mastoid process a part of?

Answer 11

Temporal bone

Question 12

What bones is the zygomatic arch made up of?

Answer 12

Zygomatic and temporal

Question 13

The styloid process is a part of which bone?

Answer 13

Temporal bone

Question 14

The occipital condyles are a part of which bone?

Answer 14

Occipital bone

Question 15

Identify the largest foramen within the posterior cranial fossa?

Answer 15

The foramen magnum

Question 16

What passes through the foramen magnum?

Answer 16

Meninges and spinal cord, the right and left vertebral arteries

Question 17

Where are ear ossicles found?

Answer 17

The petrous part of the temporal bone

Question 18

The base of the cranium is articulated at the TMJ by which bone?

Answer 18

The Mandible

Question 19

The upper bone and hard palate are made up of which bones?

Answer 19

The palatine and maxillary bones

Question 20

Which bone forms the posterior aspect of the nasal septum?

Answer 20

The vomer

Question 21

Name the 5 layers of the scalp

Answer 21

Skin, Connective Tissue (dense), Aponeurosis, Loose Connective Tissue, Pericranium

Question 22

What muscle does the aponeurosis of the scalp connect?

Answer 22

The anterior and posterior bellies of the occipitalfrontalis

Question 23

The branches of what nerves supply the anterior part of the scalp?

Answer 23

Trigeminal nerve (opthalmic, maxillary and mandibular branches of this nerve supply the scalp)

Question 24

What nerves supply the posterior half of the scalp?

Answer 24

Posterior rami of the cutaneous branches of C2 and C3

Question 25

What branches of the ECA supply the scalp?

Answer 25

Superficial temporal, posterior auricular and occipital

Question 26

What arteries supply the scalp?

Answer 26

The opthalmic artery, the ECA and branches of the ECA

Question 27

What veins drain the scalp?

Answer 27

Supra-orbital, supratrochlear, angular vein, facial, superficial temporal vein, anterior jugular, internal jugular, external jugular

Question 28

What nerve innervates all the muscles of facial expression?

Answer 28

The facial nerve and all its terminal branches

Question 29

Where does the facial nerve emerge from to innervate the side of the face?

Answer 29

The stylomastoid foramen

Question 30

Which nerve emerges from the anterior border of the parotid gland?

Answer 30

Facial nerve

Question 31

What muscle does the parotid gland pierce to open into the oral cavity?

Answer 31

The buccinator

Question 32

Which artery passes through the parotid gland?

Answer 32

The ECA

Question 33

Which vein passes through the parotid gland?

Answer 33

The retromandibular

Question 34

Which cranial nerve provides parasympathetic innervation to the parotid gland?

Answer 34

Glossopharyngeal

Question 35

Which nerve provides sympathetic innervation to the parotid gland?

Answer 35

The superior cervical region