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NUR 3121 (Health Assessment) Week 2
Practice Questions and Answers
What is the skull? - Ans:✔✔-- A rigid box that protects brain
- It includes bones of cranium and face
- It is supported by cervical vertebra
Cranial Bones - Ans:✔✔-- Frontal
- Parietal
- Occipital
- Temporal
Sutures - Ans:✔✔-- The adjacent cranial bones unite at meshed immovable joints called the sutures
- Coronal
- Sagittal
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- Lambdoid
When you are born, cranial bones are? - Ans:✔✔-- Not fused together
- Brain needs time to grow
- Birthing process
How many facial bones also articulate at sutures? - Ans:✔✔-14
How are facial expressions formed? - Ans:✔✔-Facial expressions are formed by facial muscles, which are
mediated by cranial nerve VII, the facial nerve
Two pairs of salivary glands accessible to examination on the face: - Ans:✔✔-- Parotid glands are in
cheeks over mandible, anterior to and below ear; the largest of salivary glands, they are not normally
palpable
- Submandibular glands beneath mandible at angle of jaw
What is the third pair of salivary glands? - Ans:✔✔-- Third pair, sublingual gland, lies in floor of mouth
Parotid gland picture - Ans:✔✔-
Submandibular gland picture - Ans:✔✔-
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Sublingual gland picture - Ans:✔✔-
Where does the temporal artery lie? - Ans:✔✔-- Temporal artery lies superior to temporalis muscle, and
pulsation is palpable anterior to ear
The neck is delimited by... - Ans:✔✔-the base of the skull and inferior border of mandible above, and by
manubrium sterni, clavicle, first rib, and first thoracic vertebra below
What structures are in the neck? - Ans:✔✔-- Vessels, muscles, nerves, lymphatics, and viscera of
respiratory and digestive systems
Internal carotid artery branches off.... - Ans:✔✔-the common carotid and runs inward and upward to
supply brain
External carotid artery supplies the..... - Ans:✔✔-face, salivary glands, and superficial temporal area
Hyoid Bone - Ans:✔✔-a U-shaped bone in the neck that supports the tongue.
Thyroid Cartilage - Ans:✔✔-A firm prominence of cartilage that forms the upper part of the larynx; the
Adam's apple.
Trachea - Ans:✔✔-A large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx
to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs; the windpipe.
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Sternomastoid Muscle - Ans:✔✔-arises from the sternum and the clavicle and extends diagonally across
the neck to the mastoid process behind the ear
Major Neck Muscles - Ans:✔✔-Sternomastoid and trapezius are innervated by cranial nerve XI
Sternomastoid enables - Ans:✔✔-- Head rotation and flexion
- Divides each side of neck into two triangles: anterior and posterior triangles
Two trapezius muscles do what? - Ans:✔✔-move shoulders and extend and turn head
Where is the thyroid gland? - Ans:✔✔-- Straddles trachea in middle of the neck
The thyroid gland synthesizes and secretes: - Ans:✔✔-- Thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), which
are hormones that stimulate the rate of cellular metabolism
The thyroid gland has two lobes: - Ans:✔✔-- Both conical in shape, each curving posteriorly between the
trachea and the sternomastoid muscle
- The lobes are connected by a thin isthmus
Thyroid cartilage - Ans:✔✔-- Has a small, palpable V in upper edge ("Adam's apple" in males)
Cricoid cartilage - Ans:✔✔-- AKA upper tracheal ring
- Beneath the thyroid cartilage
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NUR 3121 (Health Assessment) Week 2
Practice Questions and Answers
What is the skull? - Ans:✔✔-- A rigid box that protects brain
- It includes bones of cranium and face
- It is supported by cervical vertebra
Cranial Bones - Ans:✔✔-- Frontal
- Parietal
- Occipital
- Temporal
Sutures - Ans:✔✔-- The adjacent cranial bones unite at meshed immovable joints called the sutures
- Coronal
- Sagittal
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- Lambdoid
When you are born, cranial bones are? - Ans:✔✔-- Not fused together
- Brain needs time to grow
- Birthing process
How many facial bones also articulate at sutures? - Ans:✔✔-14
How are facial expressions formed? - Ans:✔✔-Facial expressions are formed by facial muscles, which are
mediated by cranial nerve VII, the facial nerve
Two pairs of salivary glands accessible to examination on the face: - Ans:✔✔-- Parotid glands are in
cheeks over mandible, anterior to and below ear; the largest of salivary glands, they are not normally
palpable
- Submandibular glands beneath mandible at angle of jaw
What is the third pair of salivary glands? - Ans:✔✔-- Third pair, sublingual gland, lies in floor of mouth
Parotid gland picture - Ans:✔✔-
Submandibular gland picture - Ans:✔✔-
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Sublingual gland picture - Ans:✔✔-
Where does the temporal artery lie? - Ans:✔✔-- Temporal artery lies superior to temporalis muscle, and
pulsation is palpable anterior to ear
The neck is delimited by... - Ans:✔✔-the base of the skull and inferior border of mandible above, and by
manubrium sterni, clavicle, first rib, and first thoracic vertebra below
What structures are in the neck? - Ans:✔✔-- Vessels, muscles, nerves, lymphatics, and viscera of
respiratory and digestive systems
Internal carotid artery branches off.... - Ans:✔✔-the common carotid and runs inward and upward to
supply brain
External carotid artery supplies the..... - Ans:✔✔-face, salivary glands, and superficial temporal area
Hyoid Bone - Ans:✔✔-a U-shaped bone in the neck that supports the tongue.
Thyroid Cartilage - Ans:✔✔-A firm prominence of cartilage that forms the upper part of the larynx; the
Adam's apple.
Trachea - Ans:✔✔-A large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx
to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs; the windpipe.
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Sternomastoid Muscle - Ans:✔✔-arises from the sternum and the clavicle and extends diagonally across
the neck to the mastoid process behind the ear
Major Neck Muscles - Ans:✔✔-Sternomastoid and trapezius are innervated by cranial nerve XI
Sternomastoid enables - Ans:✔✔-- Head rotation and flexion
- Divides each side of neck into two triangles: anterior and posterior triangles
Two trapezius muscles do what? - Ans:✔✔-move shoulders and extend and turn head
Where is the thyroid gland? - Ans:✔✔-- Straddles trachea in middle of the neck
The thyroid gland synthesizes and secretes: - Ans:✔✔-- Thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), which
are hormones that stimulate the rate of cellular metabolism
The thyroid gland has two lobes: - Ans:✔✔-- Both conical in shape, each curving posteriorly between the
trachea and the sternomastoid muscle
- The lobes are connected by a thin isthmus
Thyroid cartilage - Ans:✔✔-- Has a small, palpable V in upper edge ("Adam's apple" in males)
Cricoid cartilage - Ans:✔✔-- AKA upper tracheal ring
- Beneath the thyroid cartilage
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