HA: Head and Neck

• What is the framework of the head?


  skull
• Skull is can be divided into 2 subsections? ___ and ___


  cranium and face
• It houses and protect the brain and major sensory organs.


  cranium
• The cranial bones are joined together by immovable? ___


  sutures
• It gives shape to the face.


  facial bones
• All of the facial bones are immovable except for the? 


  mandible
• a major artery located between the eye and top of the ear.


  temporal artery
• what are the glands that are located on each side of the face, anterior and inferior to the ears, and behind the mandible?


  parotid gland
• What are the glands located inferior to the mandible, underneath the base of the tongue.


  submandibular glands
• Are two paired muscles that allows movement and provide support to the head and neck.


  sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles
• This mucle allows the head to rotate and flex.


  sternocleidomastoid muscles
• This muscle extends the head and moves the shoulder.


  Trapezius muscles
• The ___ cranial nerve is responsible for muscle movement that permits shrugging of the shoulders by the trapezius and turning the head against resistance by the sternocleidomastoid.


  eleventh
• the anterior triangle is located?


  under the mandible, anterior to the sternomastoid muscles.
• your posterior triangle is located between the?


  trapezius and sternomastoid muscles
• Are located in the posterior neck and support the cranium.

  C1 through C7 or your cervical vertebrae
• C7 is also known as?


  vertebra prominens
• C1 aka? C2 aka?

  C1 refers to the first cervical vertebra, also known as the atlas. C2 refers to the second cervical vertebra, also known as the axis.
• blood vessels in the head that are located bilaterally, parallel and anterior to the sternomastoid muscles.

  Internal jugular veins and carotid arteries
• It is important to avoid bilaterally compressing the carotid arteries because bilateral compression can?

  reduce the blood supply to the brain
• what is the largest endocrine gland?and consist of two lateral lobes that curve posteriorly on both sides of the trachea and esophagus

  thyroid gland?
• The fist upper tracheal ring, called the ___ has a small notch in it.

  cricoid cartilage
• Thyroid cartilage is also known as the?

  adam's apple
• arch shaped bone that does not articulate directly with any other bone.

  hyoid bone
• A clear substance composed mostly of excess tissue fluid?


  lymph
• They filter lymph/ filters and remove bacteria and tumor cells from lymph.


  Lymph nodes
• Enumerate the 10 lymph nodes that can be seen in your head and neck.


  preauricular

  postauricular

  tonsillar

  submandibular

  submental

  occipital

  superficial cervical

  deep cervical

  posterior cervical

  supraclavicular
• What is the meaning of COLDSPA?

  character, onset, location. duration, severity, pattern, and associated factors
• What is the best position during physical examination of the head and neck of the patient?


  sitting in upright position
• What is the term that you can use if the patient head is proportional to his/her body?(The head is symmetric, round, erect, and in midline and appropriately related to body size)


  normocephalic
• what do you call when your patient has a abnormally small head?


  microcephaly
• what do you call when the skull and facial bones are larger and thicker?


  acromegaly
• what do you call the enlarged skull bones seen in "paget disease" of the bone?


  acorn shaped
• what cause the involuntary movement of the head that cause horizontal jerking movement of the head?


  neurologic disorder
• what cause the involuntary nodding of the head?


  aortic insufficiency
• what is the normal findings when palpating the head?

  normally hard and smooth withouth lesions
• what are the abnormal findings when palpating the head

  lesion or lumps may indicate recent trauma or a sign of cancer
• inspect the face; normal findings

  face is symmetric
• asymmetry anterior to the earlobes occur with ___ enlargement from an abscess or tumor

  parotid gland
• drooping, weakness, or paralysis on one side of the face may result from a ___ and usually is seen with paralysis or weakness of other parts on that side of the body

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