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21 Cards in this Set
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What muscle is indicated by the blue arrow?
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Orbicularis Oculi
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What muscle is indicated by the blue arrow?
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The Orbicularis Oris
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What muscle is indicated by the blue arrow?
What action does it perform? |
Levator Anguli Oris
Elevates the angle (corner) of mouth. |
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What muscle is indicated by the blue arrow?
What action does it perform? |
Levator Labii Superioris
Elevates the upper lip. |
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What muscle is indicated by the blue arrow?
What is it important? |
The Buccinator muscle.
It forms the muscular component of the cheek and is used when forcefully expelling air expanding the cheeks. |
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What gland is indicated by the blue arrow?
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The Parotid Salivary Gland
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What muscle is indicated by the blue arrow?
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The Masseter muscle
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What artery is indicated by the blue arrow?
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The External Carotid artery.
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What is the foramen indicated by the red arrow?
What Cranial Nerve passes through it? |
The Stylomastoid Foramen
The Facial Nerve (CN VII). |
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What branch of the Facial Nerve is indicated by the blue arrow?
What muscles does it innervate? |
The Temporal branch
Frontalis and Orbicularis Oculi. |
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What branches of the Facial Nerve are indicated by the blue arrow?
What muscles do they innervate? |
The Zygomatic Branches.
Orbicularis Oculi |
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What branches of the Facial Nerve are indicated by the blue arrow?
What muscles do they innervate? |
The Buccal Branches
The Buccinator and Levators Anguli Oris |
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What branches of the Facial Nerve are indicated by the blue arrow?
What muscles do they innervate? |
The Marginal Mandibular Branches
Depressors of lower lip |
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What branches of the Facial Nerve are indicated by the blue arrow?
What muscles do they innervate? |
The Cervical Branches
The Platysma (a muscle of facial expression that extends past the clavicle) |
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What branche of the Facial Nerve is indicated by the blue arrows?
What muscles does it innervate? |
The Postererior Auricular nerve
The Occipitalis. |
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What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
What muscle does it pierce? |
The Parotid Duct.
It crosses the Masseter muscle and pierces the Buccinator muscle. |
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What is the vessel indicated by the yellow arrow?
What does it branch from? |
The Facial Vein.
The Internal Jugular Vein. |
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What is the vessel indicated by the yellow arrow?
What muscle on the neck can it be seen to pass over? |
The External Jugular Vein.
The Sternocleidomastoid muscle. |
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What vessel is indicated by the yellow arrows?
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The Facial Artery.
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What artery is indicated by the yellow arrows?
What is it a terminal branch of? |
The Superficial Temporal Artery.
The External Carotid Artery. |
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What artery is indicated by the yellow arrows?
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The External Carotid Artery.
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