Orientation To The Face/parotid Gland/temporal Region Flashcards
(27 cards)
What are the 5 motor branches of the facial nerve from top to bottom?
Temporal Zygomatic Buccal Marginal mandibular Cervical
TZ BMC
What does the facial nerve (VII) supply?
Frontalis
Occipitalis
Orbicularis oculi - forcefully closing eyelids
Orbicularis oris - closing the mouth
Buccinator - primary cheek muscle
Platysma - a superficial muscle found in the neck
What does the facial nerve leave the skull through?
The Stylomastoid foramen
What does the parotid duct penetrate?
The buccinator
What is the masseter supplied by?
The mandibular V3 division of the trigeminal nerve
What are the branches of the trigeminal nerve named after?
Supraorbital foramen/nerve from the ophthalmic V1
Infraorbital foramen/nerve from the maxillary V2
Mental foramen/nerve from the mandibular V3
Where does the auriculartemporal nerve come from?
A branch of V3 (maxillary)
Purely sensory
What is unique about the facial arteries and veins?
They are valveless
Where is the facial artery and vein from?
The external carotid
And the internal jugular
Where does the parotid gland open up?
Near the 2nd upper molar
What is the sensory nerve in the area of the facial nerve?
The auriculartemporal nerve
What can happen to wind instrument players in the parotid gland?
Pneumoparotid
When air is forced in the parotid duct
Where does the lateral pterygoid muscle take origin and insert?
Inferior surface of the greater wing of the sphenoid
Inserts into the TMJ
What does the inferior alveolar nerve (a branch of V3)pass through?
The mandibular foramen
What branches off the inferior alveolar nerve before it enters the mandibular foramen?
The mylohyoid nerve
What muscle attaches to the coronoid process?
The lateral pterygoid muscle
What nerve innervates the masseter?
The mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve (V3)
What muscle attaches to the condylar process of the mandible?
The masseter
The inferior alveolar nerve enters the mandibular foramen and leaves as what?
The mental nerve
What does the trigeminal motor nucleus do?
Innervates the muscles of mastication
Where is the motor nucleus of CN V located?
The pons
What exits through the foramen ovale?
Motor fibers of CN V
What divisions of CN V have motor fibers?
Only the mandibular division
Opthalmic and maxillary divisions are purely sensory
What passes through the three of these respectively?
Superior orbital fissure
Foramen rotundum
Foramen ovale?
Ophthalmic V1
Maxillary V2
Mandibular V3
