Exam 7: The Head by Region

The largest, and perhaps most troublesome, of the paranasal air sinuses are the _____ sinuses.

Articulation of the temporomandibular joint takes place in which of the following two areas?

__________ is a rupture of cerebral veins as they enter the superior sagittal sinus that results in a separation of the dura and arachnoid layers and forms a hematoma.

The trigeminal nerve is cranial nerve V (CN V). The maxillary and mandibular nerves are branches of cranial nerve V, such that ______________.

Trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux), in which pain may be triggered by a light touch to the face, is a disorder of the _________________________.

The floor of the mouth is innervated by which three nerves?

The soft palate is the movable posterior third of the palate. It ends posteriorly as a free edge with a pendulous projection called the _______.

Depression of the mandible is accomplished by bilateral contractions of the _____ muscles(s).

The primary muscle of the lips is the ______________ muscle, which also is the sphincter of the mouth.

The usual cause of myofascial pain syndrome (fibromyalgia), which involves pain emanating from fibrous muscle sheaths, muscle, tendons, and ligaments, in the masticator region is ________________.

Damage to the upper motor neurons of the facial nerve results in ___________________.

When a tooth becomes nonvital, the pulpal tissues die and the remaining necrotic debris usually becomes infected. What causes a tooth to become nonvital?

Cavernous sinus thrombosis is a ___________________________.

Which of the following is an accurate description of how the eye focuses?

The entire blood supply of the face is derived from either the internal or external _______ arteries.

Saliva contains high levels of ___________, which can precipitate spontaneously as supragingival calculus, particularly on the lingual surfaces of the mandibular anterior teeth.

The cricothyroid, transverse arytenoid, posterior cricoarytenoid, aryepiglottic, and vocalis are all muscles of the __________________.

All of the following are muscles of the tongue except the ___________.

The ___________ is the only muscle that does not originate from the tendinous ring. It turns the eyeball superiorly and laterally and is supplied by a branch of the oculomotor nerve.

The _______ nerve passes into the parotid gland and becomes plexiform and forms five sets of branches-temporal, zygomatic, buccal, mandibular, and cervical-that supply the superficial muscles of facial expression and the platysma muscle.