Nerves of the Neck

Question 1

What does the tympanic nerve supply and what is it associated with?

Answer 1

Sensory to tympanic cavity
Secretomotor to parotid gland
Ear infection

Question 2

What is the branch to the carotid sinus supply?

Answer 2

sensory to carotid sinus and carotid body

Question 3

What does the pharyngeal branch supply and what is it associated with?

Answer 3

Sensory to pharynx

Sore throat and (Afferent) GAG reflexes

Question 4

What does the branch to the stylopharyngeus supply?

Answer 4

Motor to stylopharyngeus muscle

Question 5

What does the tonsillary branch supply and what is it associated with?

Answer 5

Sensory to mucous membrane over tonsil and soft palate

Tonsillitis

Question 6

What does the lingual branch supply?

Answer 6

taste (sensory) to posterior third of tongue

Question 7

What is the only motor branch of the Glossoharyngeal nerve?

Answer 7

Branch to the stylopharyngeus

Question 8

What is the longest cranial nerve in the body?

Answer 8

Vagus Nerve

Question 9

What are the two ganglion associated with the vagus and are they sensory or motor?

Answer 9

Superior and Inferior Ganglion and Sensory

Question 10

Which of the following is not a branch of the vagus nerve?
A. Meningeal Branch
B. Auricular Branch
C. Facial Branch
D. Pharyngeal Branch
E. Superior Laryngeal Nerve
F. Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Answer 10

C. Facial Branch

Question 11

What two branches arise from the superior ganglion of the vagus nerve?

Answer 11

Meningeal branch and Auricular branch

Question 12

What two branches arise from the inferior ganglion of the vagus nerve?

Answer 12

Pharyngeal branch and Superior laryngeal nerve

Question 13

What does the meningeal branch supply? and what kind of headache is associated with this branch?

Answer 13

dura mater (sensory)
Cervicosenic Headache

Question 14

What does the auricular branch supply? and what is it associated with?

Answer 14

Sensory to auricle, auditory meatus, tympanic membrane

Swimmers Ear

Question 15

What does the pharyngeal branch supply?

Answer 15

Motor to the muscles of the pharynx and soft palate

Question 16

What nerve does not make up part of the pharyngeal plexus?
A. pharyngeal branch of vagus
B. Glossopharyngeal nerve
C. Lingual nerve
D. Sympathetic trunk

Answer 16

C. lingual nerve

Question 17

The pharyngeal plexus is motor to all the muscles of the pharynx except ______ and to all the muscles of the soft palate except for _____?

Answer 17

Stylopharyngeus (glossopharyngeal nerve)

Tensor veli palatini (trigeminal nerve)

Question 18

Which of the following is not a branch of the Glossopharyngeal Nerve?
A. Tympanic nerve
B. Branch of the Carotid Sinus
C. Paryngeal Branch
D. Branch to the stylopharyngeus
E. Facial nerve
F. Tonsillar Branch
G. Lingual Branch

Answer 18

E. facial nerve

Question 19

The superior laryngeal nerve has two parts the internal and external laryngeal nerve, what do they supply?

Answer 19

Internal supplies sensory to larynx

External supplies motor to cricothyroid and inferior constrictor muscles

Question 20

What does the recurrent laryngeal supply?

Answer 20

Sensory to larynx and trachea

Motor to all muscles of the larynx except the cricothyroid

Question 21

What is the only muscle of the larynx that isn’t supplies by the recurrent laryngeal nerve?

Answer 21

Cricothyroid

Question 22

What happens with unilateral damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve?

Answer 22

Hoarseness

Question 23

What happens with bilateral damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve?

Answer 23

suffocation

Question 24

What causes damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve?

Answer 24

trauma during thyroid surgery
goiter
lung tumor
aortic anerysm (left side only)

Question 25

The accesssory nerve is formed by two parts, cranial part and spinal part, what do they supply?

Answer 25

cranial supplies the vagus with motor fibers | spinal supplies motor to sternocleiodmastoid and trapezius muscles

Question 26

What does the hypoglossal nerve supply?

Answer 26

motor to the tongue

Question 27

``` Which of the following is not a branch of the hypoglossal nerve? A. Meningeal branch B. Recurrent branch C. Superior root of the ansa cervicalis D. Nerves to thyroid and geniohyoid E. Lingual branches ```

Answer 27

B. recurrent branch

Question 28

What does the meningeal branch supply?

Answer 28

dura mater

Question 29

What does the superior root of the ansa cervicalis supply?

Answer 29

motor to infrahyoid muscles (sternohyoid, sternothyroid, omohyoid)

Question 30

What does the nerves to thyrohyoid and geniohyoid supply?

Answer 30

motor to thryohyoid and geniohyoid muscles

Question 31

What does the lingual branch supply?

Answer 31

motor to extrinsic and intrinsic muscles of the tongue

Question 32

``` Which of the following is not part of the cervical sympathetic ganglia? A. Superior Cervical Ganglion B. Middle Cervical Ganglion C. Inferior Cervical Ganglion D. Vertebral Ganglion E. Cervicothoracic (stellate) Ganglion ```

Answer 32

C. Inferior Cervical Ganglion

Question 33

What are the branches of the superior cervical ganglion?

Answer 33

Internal carotid nerve - sympathetic supply to head Superior cervical cardiac - to cardiac plexus Branches to pharyngeal plexus

Question 34

The middle cervical ganglion has 1 branch called the middle cervical cardiac nerve and it goes to the?

Answer 34

cardiac plexus

Question 35

What does the vertebral ganglion usually fuse with?

Answer 35

middle or inferior cervical ganglion

Question 36

The cervicothoracic ganglion has one branch called the inferior cervical cardiac nerve, where does it go to?

Answer 36

Cardiac plexus

Question 37

Where is the superior cervical ganglion?

Answer 37

C1-C3

Question 38

Where is the Middle cervical ganglion?

Answer 38

C6

Question 39

Where is the vertebral ganglion located?

Answer 39

C7

Question 40

Where is the cervicothoracic ganglion located?

Answer 40

C7-T1

Question 41

What does the ansa subclavia connect?

Answer 41

vertebral ganglion to the cervicothoracic ganglion