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The entire skull is composed of two parts. They are:

The cranium and the mandible (lecture 1)

Where is the nose at in your skull?

In the Piriform recess (lecture 1)

Where do your eyeballs reside?

In the Orbits (lecture 1)

Cheekbones are really called the:

Zygomatic arches (lecture 1)

The cranium can be split into sections. What are they?

The Neurocranium, the viscerocranium, and the cavarium (lecture 1)

What is the purpose of the neurocranium?

To protect the brain. It is made of flat rounded arch bones (lecture 1)

Where is the Calvarium located?

It is the cap of the cranium (lecture 1)

The viscerocranium is also known as the:

Facial skeleton (facial skull) (lecture 1)

What does the viscerocranium do?

It protects the other organs of the head (besides the brain) (lecture 1)

The internal and external cranial base both have their own unique anatomy, true or false?

True (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve I (CN I) is which nerve?

The olfactory nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve II (CN II) is the:

Optic nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve III (CNIII) is the:

Oculomotor nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve IV (CN IV) is the:

Trochlear nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve V (CN V) is the:

Trigeminal nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve VI (CN VI) is the:

Abducens nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve VII (CN VII) is the:

Facial nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve VIII (CN VIII) is the:

Vestibulocochlear nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve IX (CN IX) is the

Glossopharyngeal nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve X (CN X) is the:

Vagus nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve XI (CN XI) is the:

Spinal accessory nerve (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve XII (CN XII) is the

Hypoglossal nerve

What does the oculomotor nerve do?

Provides motor function to the occulus - moves eyeball around (lecture 1)

The brain has a stair stepped profile from the lateral view and is composed of three fossae. What are they?

Anterior fossa, middle fossa, and posterior fossa (lecture 1)

The internal cranial base has three major divisions called the:

Cranial fossae (lecture 1)

Anterior, middle, and posterior

Which bones are found in the anterior cranial fossa?

-frontal bone
-ethmoid bone
-lesser wings of sphenoid bone (lecture 1)

What non-bony features does the anterior cranial fossa contain?

Frontal lobes of brain, olfactory tract, and olfactory bulb (lecture 1)

The anterior cranial fossa has one set of openings. What are they?

The foramina of the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone (lecture 1)

What goes through the foramina of the cribriform plate?

the olfactory nerve goes through into the nose (lecture 1)

What are the bones that are found in the Middle Cranial fossa?

-The greater wings of the Sphenoid bone
-The sella turcica,
-posterior clinoid processes of the sphenoid bone,
-The temporal bone (the squamous and petrous) (lecture 1)

What does Petrous mean?
What does Squamous mean?

Petrous- rock

Squamous- flat

(lecture 1)

What sits in the sella turcica?

The pituitary gland (lecture 1)

What are the openings found in the middle cranial fossa?

-Optic canal
-Superior orbital fissure
-Foramen rotundum
-Formamen Ovale
-Foramen Spinosum
-Carotid Canal
-Foramen Lacerum
(lecture 1)

The Optic canal takes you into the _________ from the cranium

Orbit (lecture 1)

The Carotid canal is located:

In the middle cranial fossa on the sides of the sella turcica (lecture 1)

What bones are found in the posterior cranial fossa?

-Occipital
-Temporal (Petrous and mastoid)
(lecture 1)

The middle and inner ear are found in what part of the temporal bone?

The petrous part (lecture 1)

The inner ear houses the ________ _________ system, which is important for balance

Vestibular system (lecture 1)

What part of the brain does the posterior cranial fossa contain?

The cerebellum and the brainstem (midbrain, pons, medulla) (lecture 1)

What part of the brain does the middle cranial fossa contain?

The temporal and occipital lobes, and the pituitary gland (lecture 1)

What are the openings found in the posterior cranial fossa?

Internal openings:
-Internal acoustic meatus
-Jugular foramen
-Hypoglossal canal
-Foramen Magnum

External openings:
-Stylomastoid foramen
-External acoustic meatus (lecture 1)

What is located on either side of the foramen magnum (on wall)

Hypoglossal canal (lecture 1)

The external cranial base is made up of what three bones?

The Sphenoid, the temporal, and the occipital bones (lecture 1)

What do you have entering and exiting the external cranial base?

Cranial nerves exit here and major cranial vessels enter here (lecture 1)

Does the external cranial base include the maxilla?

No, just all of the complex processes and foramena

What does Pterygoid mean?

Wings (lecture 1)

What is found on the external cranial base as part of the sphenoid bone?

-Medial and lateral pterygoid plates
-Foramen ovale
-Foramen Spinosum
(lecture 1)

What are the features that you find on the temporal bone of the external cranial base? (8)

-Articular eminence
-Mandibular Fossa
-External Acoustic Meatus
-Styloid process
-Mastoid Process
-Carotid Canal
-Stylomastoid Foramen
-Jugular fossa (lecture 1)

Where does your mandible articulate with your skull?

The mandibular fossa (lecture 1)

Just anterior to the mandibular fossa is the:

What does it look like?

Articular eminence

It is just a raised ridge (lecture 1)

What is the articular eminence for?

So that your jaw does not dislocate anteriorly, and it allows you to open your mouth wide (lecture 1)

When people dislocate their jaws, do they usually do so anteriorly or posteriorly?

Posteriorly (like if they get punched) (lecture 1)

What is the bony tube going to your middle ear?

The external acoustic meatus (lecture 1)

What is found between the styloid process and the mastoid process?

The stylomastoid foramen (lecture 1)

Where does the internal carotid artery travel?

through the carotid canal (lecture 1)

Why is the Jugular fossa called the Jugular fossa?

Because there are going to be structures in that little scooped out area like ganglia on the rim of the jugular foramen (lecture 1)

What are the features you find on the occipital bone of the external cranial base?

-Occipital condyle
-Hypoglossal canal
-Foramen Magnum
(lecture 1)

Where does the cranium articulate with the atlas (the first cervical vertebra)

The occipital condyles (lecture 1)

The Cranial nerves are in three different categories. they are:

Motor, sensory, and mixed (lecture 1)

Are cranial nerves part of the central nervous system (CNS) or the Peripheral nervous system (PNS)?

The PNS (lecture 1)

Different nerve fibers (functional components) can be found in different branches of the same cranial nerve, true or false

true (lecture 1)

What does it mean to say nerve fibers can hitchhike?

They can jump on and off cranial nerves (lecture 1)

There are __#___ cranial nerves and they are identified by:

12 CN
Roman numerals and by name (lecture 1)

In terms of the autonomic nervous system, parasympathetics comprise the _________ ________ in cranial nerves

Visceral motor (lecture 1)

Are the sympathetics found in a cranial nerve?

No (lecture 1)

Why are cranial nerves named as such?

Because they exit the cranium. Cranial nerves are nerves that are going to exit the cranium (lecture 1)

Nerves are comprised of all these different _______ ________ that are held inside a(n) ____________

-Nerve fibers
-Epineurium
(lecture 1)

What type of nerve fibers are found within the epineurium?

Somatic sensory, somatic motor, Visceral afferent (sensory) and visceral motor (efferent) (lecture 1)

Why do you have "hitchhiking" cranial nerves?

Because sometimes you have a nerve fibers from one cranial nerve that needs to go somewhere that it doesn't normally need to go, so it sends fibers that attaches onto another cranial nerve and goes to the place that that cranial nerve might want to go (like taking a bus) (lecture 1)

What are ganglia?

Collection of cell bodies outside of the central nervous system (CNS) (lecture 1)

The ANS (autonomic nervous system) is a ___#___ neuron system

two (lecture 1)

What occurs in the ANS 2 neuron system?

A neuron within the CNS is going to send out a neuron into the PNS and it will synapse on a ganglion outside in the PNS and will then send its post ganglionic fiber out to the structures such as smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, glands, etc (lecture 1)

What are the different types of functional components?

Two sensory and two motor:

Sensory:
-Somatic sensory (SA)
-Visceral afferent (VA)

Motor:
Somatic Motor (SM)
Visceral Motor (VM)

Parasympathetics turn the functions ______(on or off)

on (lecture 1)

What are the purely sensory nerves?

CN I- Olfactory N
CN II- Optic N
CN VIII- Vestibulocochlear N
(lecture 1)

What are the purely motor nerves?

CN III- Oculomotor
CN IV- Trochlear
CN VI- Abducens
CN XI- Accessory
CN XII- Hypoglossal
(lecture 1)

What are the mixed cranial nerves (both sensory and motor)?

CN V- Trigeminal
CN VII- Facial
CN IX- Glossopharyngeal
CN X- Vagus
(lecture 1)

Cranial nerves have parasympathetics in them and some of them are associated directly with ganglia. Which three are they?

CN III- oculomotor
CN VII- facial
CN IX- glossopharyngeal
(lecture 1)

The Vagus nerve have a parasympathetic ganglia, true or false?

False, the vagus nerve has no parasympathetic ganglia. (lecture 1)

The Oculomotor CN (CN III) is associated with which ganglion?

Ciliary (lecture 1)

The facial CN (CN VII) is associated with which ganglia?

Submandibular and pterygopalatine (lecture 1)

The Glossopharyngeal CN (CN IX) is associated with which ganglion?

Otic
(lecture 1)

What is the pneumonic to remember which cranial nerve is associated with which parasympathetic ganglia?

397-COPS
(lecture 1)

When you are talking about somatic motor you are talking about ___________ muscle

skeletal
(lecture 1)

Visceral motor goes to:

Glands (such is salivary glands), cardiac mm, mucosa of your nose (so when your nose gets stuffy and it becomes engorged) (lecture 1)

In CN VII (The facial nerve) you have _________1_ ___1______ to muscles of facial expression, but also ____2_____ ____2______ innervation to salivary glands under the tongue

1. Somatic Motor

2. Visceral Motor
(lecture 1)

Somatic Afferent does:

Touch, temperature, pain, and proprioception (lecture 1)

Visceral sensory in head and neck covers a lot. For instance:

Sensation from the salivary glands (for example, mumps), carotid body and sinus, pharynx, middle ear, larynx, bronchi, heart, esophagus, intestine.
(lecture 1)

What is mumps? What type of pain is this?

When your parotid gland becomes inflamed and hurts really badly. This is visceral afferent pain. (lecture 1)

What are the functions for Visceral afferent?

Smell and taste (lecture 1)

Taste and smell are:

chemoreception (lecture 1)

Skin of the head, nasal, sinus, and oral mucosa, cornea, teeth, sensation (not taste) to tongue, dura mater, and skin of ear are all _______________ Afferent (somatic or visceral)

somatic (lecture 1)

Vision, hearing, and balance are part of ___________ afferent.

Somatic
(lecture 1)

Pain = 1
Basic sensation = 2

Sympathetic or parasympathetic

1. Sympathetic

2. Parasympathetic
(lecture 1)

CN III (Oculomotor) has both __1_____ and ____1___ motor

1. Somatic and visceral (lecture 1)

The oculomotor nerve (CNIII) is going to bring ___1____ Motor innervation to the extraocular eye muscles (the muscles that move the eyeball around in the orbit)

1. somatic
(lecture 1)

The Oculomotor nerve (CN III) brings somatic motor innervation to which muscles?

-Superior rectus


-inferior rectus


-medial rectus


-inferior oblique


-levator palpebrae superioris
(lecture 1)

The oculomotor nerve (CN III) brings visceral motor innervation to:

- Pupillary sphincter
-Ciliary muscle (via ciliary ganglion) (lecture 1)

The muscles that close your pupil and stretch and shrink your lens for accommodation, for focus, are mediated by:

Visceral motor fibers of the oculomotor nerve (CN III) (lecture 1)

Which Cranial nerve(s) enter the orbit through the superior orbital fissure? Which bone is this part of?

CNs III,IV,V(1) and VI

-oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal (first part) and Abducens
(lecture 1)

Sphenoid

Trochlear nerve is a purely motor nerve. Does it have somatic motor, visceral motor, or both?

It only has somatic motor
(lecture 1)

the trochlear nerve is a single nerve that innervates the _________ ____________. The action of this muscle is to:

Superior oblique.

Depresses the eye when looking straight ahead or medially (lecture 1)

Why is it called a trochlear nerve?

Because it makes a little loop around the superior oblique and acts as a pulley (lecture 1)

CN VI, the ____________, enters through the __________________ into the orbit from the internal cranium

1. Abducens
2. Superior orbital fissure (lecture 1)

Where is the abducens nerve (CN VI) located?

On the pons (lecture 1)

Which cranial nerve has the longest intracranial course of any cranial nerve?

The abducens (CN VI) (lecture 1)

What does CN VI (abducens) innervate? What is the action of this muscle?

It innervates the lateral rectus, which is the muscle that moves the eyeball laterally
(lecture 1)

The abducens (CN VI) has the longest intracranial course of any cranial nerve.

Why is this important clinically?

Because it goes right across the floor of the cranial base as its getting to its target, and in the case of head trauma, (ex-car accident), you may see that this nerve is compromised and so they have an eyeball that floats towards their nose because their lateral rectus no longer functions without its innervation, and the lateral rectus moves the eyeball laterally. (lecture 1)

The spinal accessory nerve (CN XI) is a purely _______ motor nerve

Somatic



(lecture 1)

The CN XI (accessory nerve) somatically innervates which muscles?

The sternocleidomastoid and the trapezius (lecture 1)

Cervical spinal nerves C1-5 send a branch up through the __1______ ______1___ and they are going to exit the __2________ ______2____ in the case of the accessory nerve (CN XI)

1. Foramen magnum
2. Jugular foramen
(lecture 1)

If you were to have a lesion to the accessory nerve (CN XI), unilaterally what is the first thing you see? What occurs contralaterally?

Unilaterally the person is unable to shrug their shoulders, and contralaterally the person has difficulty in turning their head (to the contralateral side) (sternocleidomastoid)


(lecture 1)

CN XI (accessory nerve) exits with which other nerves through the _______ _________

Exits with X (vagus) and IX (glossopharyngeal) through the jugular foramen



(lecture 1)

If you have a tumor in the jugular foramen, this is called a ___________________________________.

What occurs?

Jugular foramen Syndrome

It can compromise CN IX (glossopharyngeal), X (vagus), and XI (accessory), because they all exit through the jugular foramen, and considering everything these nerves do, it is a very serious concern



(lecture 1)

Which bones comprise the jugular foramen?

The temporal and occipital bone
(lecture 1)

The hypoglossal nerve (CN XII) is a purely _________ nerve. Does it do somatic, visceral, or both?

Motor

Somatic

(lecture 1)

The hypoglossal nerve (CN XII) provides somatic motor innervation to:

All of the tongue muscles except for one (the palatoglossus)



(lecture 1)

The hypoglossal nerve (CN XII) goes through which foramen?
Where is that located?

It goes through the hypoglossal canal, which is in the occipital bone outside your jugular foramen.
(lecture 1)

We have nerves in the PNS and _______ in the CNS

Tracts
(lecture 1)

The olfactory nerve (CN I) go through the _________ _________

Cribriform plate
(lecture 1)

On the brain, the olfactory nerve is in the _________ ________

olfactory tracts
(lecture 1)

The olfactory nerve is a purely sensory nerve that does __________ (visceral or somatic) innervation

Visceral
(lecture 1)

If you have any sort of breakage in the cribriform plate, what won't function?

What does this cause?

The olfactory nerve

Anosmia- loss of olfaction (smell)

(lecture 1)

What is a loss of olfaction called?

Anosmia
(lecture 1)

The olfactory nerve is visceral afferent (innervations) because it is:

Chemoreception
(lecture 1)

CN II, the optic nerve, gives _________ _________ innervation

Somatic afferent
(lecture 1)

The optic nerve, CN II, is not chemoreception, it is _______ reception

light (for the retina)



(lecture 1)

There is a part where the optic nerves cross. What is this called?

The optic chiasm
(lecture 1)

Developmentally, the eyeball is just an outgrowth of:

your brain (lecture 1)

as the nerve fibers cross at the optic chiasm, they become the ________ __________, which means you are definitely within the:

Optic tract

CNS
(lecture 1)

Optic nerves enter the middle cranial fossa via the _______ ________. Which bone is this?

Optic canal

Sphenoid bone
(lecture 1)

What type of nerve is the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII)?

Somatic afferent
(lecture 1)

The vestibulocochlear nerve (CN XIII) exits the cranium via the:

internal acoustic meatus

(lecture 1)

If you have a lesion to the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII), you would lose:

hearing and balance on the same side
(lecture 1)

In the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII), the vestibular apparatus function is ___1_________ while the cochlea function is ______2______

1. Balance

2. Hearing

(lecture 1)

The vestibular N and Cochlear N are both parts of the _______________, which is CN _____

vestibulocochlear N

CN VIII

(lecture 1)

the Vestibular apparatus and the cochlea lie within the _______1_ _________ of the _____2_____ bone

petrous portion

temporal bone

(lecture 1)

The vestibularcochlear nerve enters the temporal bone through the _________1__________ along with the ____2_____ nerve.

1. Internal acoustic meatus

2. facial nerve- CN VII
(lecture 1)

The trigeminal nerve (CN V) does _______ innervation and has _________ branches

Mixed

Three

The trigeminal nerve is known as:

The great sensory nerve of the head, so if you are guessing on sensory to the head and neck, always guess trigeminal
(lecture 1)

What are the three major divisions of the trigeminal nerve called?

V1- Ophthalmic Division
V2- Maxillary Division
V3- Mandibular Division

(lecture 1)

Which divisions of the trigeminal nerve are somatic sensory, and which are mixed?

V1 and V2 are purely somatic sensory,
V3 is mixed.
(lecture 1)

What is the main function of the trigeminal nerve (CN V)

It is the great sensory nerve of the head
(lecture 1)

V3 of the trigeminal nerve is the __________ division. What type of innervation does it do?

-Mandibular division

Somatic motor and somatic afferent.

(lecture 1)

V3 of the trigeminal nerve does somatic motor innervation to which muscles?

Muscles of mastication



(lecture 1)

V3 of the trigeminal nerve does somatic afferent innervation to:

Touch sensations
from the anterior 2/3 of the tongue
mandibular teeth

(if you bite your tongue or pinch your lip)
(lecture 1)

Do all of the divisions of the trigeminal nerve exit through the same foramen?

No, V1, V2, and V3 all have their own foramen, their own entrance (sensory fibers) or exit (motor fibers).
(lecture 1)

V1 of the trigeminal nerve enters the cranium via the:

superior orbital fissure

(lecture 1)

V2 of the trigeminal nerve enters the cranium via the:

Which bone is this on?

Foramen rotundum

The sphenoid bone
(lecture 1)

V3 of the trigeminal nerve is going to enter/exit via the:

Foramen ovale
(lecture 1)

What type of innervation does the facial nerve (CN VII) do?

mixed

Somatic Motor
Visceral motor
Visceral afferent

(lecture 1)

The facial nerve (CN VII) gives somatic motor innervation which which muscles?

Muscles of facial expression (mimetic muscles)
-Stapedius
-Posterior digastric
-Stylohyoid

(lecture 1)

Mimetics refers to:

Mimes
(lecture 1)

What is the smallest muscle in the body?

What is its job?

The Stapedius

Its job is to dampen sound as it comes into your inner ear so that it isn't as incredibly loud
(lecture 1)

What is the real job of the Mimetic muscles (muscles of facial expression)

To protect --> sphincters to close off your face from the outside world- Close your eyes, mouth, etc.
(lecture 1)

Also facial expression

CN VII, the facial nerve, gives visceral motor innervation to:

lacrimal glands, submandibular glands and sublingual glands
(lecture 1)

The _____1______ nerve sends visceral motor innervation out to your lacrimal gland for _____2______

1. Facial

2. Tearing

How do you get taste to the anterior two thirds of the tongue?

Visceral afferent innervation from CN VII, the facial nerve. (lecture 1)

Cranial nerve VII (facial nerve) leaves the cranium through the ________________ with which nerve?

Which bone is this?

-Internal acoustic meatus

-with the vestibulcochlear nerve (CN VIII)

In the (Petrous) temporal bone

(lecture 1)

The external portion (the muscular branch) of the facial nerve (CN VII) exits the skull through the:

Stylomastoid foramen
(lecture 1)

How can the facial nerve of newborns be crushed during birth when using forceps for deliver?

Because newborns don't have the mastoid process (starts to develop as they lift their head) so the facial nerve isn't as protected (don't do forceps delivery anymore unless it is absolutely necessary)- people could be born with facial nerve paralysis


(lecture 1)

Are the effects of Bells Palsy ipsilateral or contralateral?

all effects are ipsilateral

(lecture 1)

Bells palsy is a __________ nerve lesion

Facial- CN VII

If the facial nerve is lesioned very close to where it exits the brainstem, what could occur?

-Sag, distortion (SM)
-absence of tears and saliva (VM)


-Impaired taste (VA)


-Ipsilateral loss of efferent limb of corneal reflex (SM)


-Hyperacusis (SM)
(lecture 1)

What is the single muscle that CN IX (glossopharyngeal nerve) innervates?

CN IX gives somatic motor innervation to the stylopharyngeus

What does hyperacusis mean? Why could this happen in the case of a facial nerve (CNVII) lesion?

It means you are very sensitive to loud noises, because the stapedius would no longer be innervated and that normally dampens the sound as it comes in
(lecture 1)

What type of nerve is CN IX (Glossopharyngeal)? What type of innervation(s) does it do?

Mixed

Somatic motor
Visceral motor
Somatic afferent
Visceral afferent



(lecture 1)

Which nerves are involved with the taste of the tongue?

CN VII (anterior 2/3) (facial) and CN IX (posterior 1/3) (glossopharyngeal)



(lecture 1)

The glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX) gives visceral motor innervation to:

The parotid (salivary) gland

(lecture 1)

What does the sensory afferent portion of CN IX (glossopharyngeal nerve) do?

general sensation from the posterior 1/3 of the tongue

CN IX (glossopharyngeal nerve) brings back visceral afferent information from:

-oropharynx
-middle ear
-auditory tube
-carotid sinus
-carotid body
-also does taste from posterior 1/3 of tongue
(lecture 1)

(baroreception, chemoreception) T

CN IX (glossopharyngeal nerve) enters the skull through the _________________ of which bone(s)?

Jugular foramen

Occipital bone and temporal bone

(lecture 1)

When people have a glossopharyngeal palsy, they tend to:

have a severe weight reduction because it is so painful to swallow that they won't eat and they will have a severe weight reduction (because CN IX does general sensation the the posterior 1/3 of tongue through SA innervation)

(lecture 1)

The glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX) exits the skull with which nerve and where?

With the vagus and accessory nerve through the jugular foramen



(lecture 1)

What is the number one cause of a cranial nerve palsy?

A root canal
(lecture 1)

The Vagus nerve brings somatic motor innervation to the muscles of the soft palate, except for _____1____________, and also brings SM innervation to:

1. Tensor veli Palatini

Also brings somatic motor innervation to:
-Palatoglossus
-pharynx
-larynx
(lecture 1)

What type of innervation does the Vagus nerve (CN X) do?

Mixed:
-Somatic motor
-Visceral motor
-Visceral afferent

The Vagus nerve (CN X) does visceral motor innervation and brings visceral afferent sensation to/from:

-Pharynx
-larynx
-cardiac muscle
-all of the viscera of the trunk up to left colic flexure
(VA- distention, bloat, etc. coming back from the GI tract)
(lecture 1)

The Vagus nerve (CN X) brings back visceral afferent sensation from:

-External acoustic meatus
-dura mater in posterior cranial fossa
-taste buds around epiglottis-Pharynx
-larynx
-cardiac muscle
-all of the viscera of the trunk up to left colic flexure


(lecture 1)

Which cranial nerve is one of the major causes of your basic headache (in back of your head)?

Vagus nerve (CN X)

(lecture 1)

When you have a headache on the front of your head, what is the cranial nerve that usually causes it?

Trigeminal nerve

(lecture 1)

What is the taste that you get around the epiglottis? from what nerve?

You have an after taste here (like from throwing up) and it is from visceral afferent information to the vagus nerve
(lecture 1)

The vagus nerve exits the skull through:

the jugular foramen
(lecture 1)