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Anatomy
External carotid artery branches Some Anatomists like freaking out poor medical students
• Superior thyroid
• Ascending pharyngeal
• Lingual
• Facial
• Occipital
• Posterior auricular
• Maxillary
• Superificial temporal
• Muscular
• Infrahyoid
• Superior laryngeal
• Sternomastoid
• Cricothyroid
• Glandular
• Middle thyroid
• Superior thyroid
• Lingual
• Common facial
• Pharyngeal
• Inferior petrosal sinus
♦ Cranial Nerves
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Composition of cranial nerves (Motor, Sensory, or Both): Some Say Marry Money, But My
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Sensory, sensory motor, motor, both, motor, both, sensory, both, both, motor, motor in the order
of cranial nerves starting from the optic (cranial nerve I).
• Geniohyoid
• Thyrohyoid
• Superior Omohyoid
• Sternothyroid
• Sternohyoid
• Inferior omohyoid
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?4 compass points: clockwise from north on the right side of neck:
• Great auricular
• Lesser occipital
• Accessory nerve pops out between L and S
• Supraclavicular
• Transverse cervical
• Pharyngeal
• Palatine
• Lingual
Thyroid: isthmus location Rings 2,3,4 make the isthmus floor
• Vestibular fold
• Ventricle
• Vocal fold
Note: Vestibular and Vocal cord also known as false and true cords respectively.
Pterygoid muscles (function): Look at how your jaw ends up when saying first syllable of
'Lateral' or 'Medial'
• Palatoglossus
• Styloglossus
• Genioglossus
• Hyoglossus
Cricoarytenoids: abductor vs. adductor When aliens abduct you, they Probe you
• Skin
• Connective tissue
• Aponeurosis
• Loose areolar tissue
• Pericranium
• Longissimus capitis
• Splenius capitis
• Sternomastoid
Superior orbital fissure (structures passing through): Truly Lovely Friends Take Notes On
Absent Occasions
• Trigeminal nerve (V1)
• Lacrimal nerve
• Frontal nerve
• Trochlear nerve
• Nasociliary nerve
• Oculomotor (sup. & inf. Branches)
• Abducens nerve
• Sup. Ophthalmic vein
C5-6-7 raise your arms to heaven (nerve roots of long thoracic nerve innervate
serratus anterior)
♦ V3 innervated muscles
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Vessels
Maxillary artery branches
1st part:
Deep auricular
Anterior tympanic
Middle meningeal
Inferior alveolar
Accessory meningeal
2nd part:
Masseteric
Pterygoid
Deep temporal
Buccal
3rd part:
Sphenopalatine
Descending palatine
Infraorbital
Posterior superior alveolar
Pharyngeal
Artery of the pterygoid canal