Neck Crossword Puzzle

Improve your neck vocabulary

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1. cranial nerve found in the carotid sheath

2. "strap muscles" is another name for the
______-hyoid muscle group
8. muscle innervated by the ventral ramus of C1
10. sling-like suprahyoid muscle
12. Abbreviation for triangle-defining muscle
15. nerve that pierces the middle scalene
muscle
16. ______ cervicalis
17. The carotid _______ responds to changes
CO2 concentration
18. Cervical plexus nerve formed by ventral
rami of C3 and C4; _____clavicular

1. which is most anterior? Subclavian vein or

artery?
3. artery with a 'tortuous' course
4. Artery involved in Subclavian Steal Syndrome
5. another word for neck
6. extra lobe sometimes found in the thyroid
gland
7. bone at the level of C3
9. ventral root of C1 travels with this cranial
nerve
11. artery to the scalenes; ________ cervical
13. Number of branches from the thyrocervical
trunk
14. _____'s Point

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23. Rib for insertion of the middle scalene

muscle
24. travels with the external jugular vein;
great _______ nerve
26. the basilar artery is formed by the
junction of the two ______ arteries
27. first branch of the external carotid artery
supplies this gland
28. 2-bellied muscle
29. The only unpaired subdivision of the
anterior triangle

19. thin muscle under the skin; tenses neck

20. this muscle helps form the floor of the
posterior triangle; ______ scapulae
21. number of branches of the internal carotid
artery in the neck
22. nerve found on anterior surface of anterior
scalene
23. another word for shoulder
25. The ______ recurrent laryngeal nerve
loops around the subclavian artery.