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Name the layers of the scalp:

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Skin

Connective Tissue

Aponeurosis

Loose Connective Tissue

Periosteum

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Auriculotemporal Nerve is motor or sensory?

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SENSORY!

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MIddle menigeal artery enters skull through what foramen?

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Foramen spinosum

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How does CSF return back to the venous system?

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Through the arachnoid granulations

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Blackeyes caused by:

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injury to supercililary arches

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Main sinuses that come together in the confluence of sinuses and where do they go?

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Straight sinus, occipital sinus, and trasnverse snius come together to form confluence and then cut down to the jugular formamen where they exit the skull

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What are sinuses in brain formed by?

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The division of the dura mater

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What sinus surrounds the pituitary gland?

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The cavernous sinus

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What vein ysstem lies betwen the inner and outer cortical layer sof the skull bone?

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The dploic venous system

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What covers the inner and outer layers of the skull?

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Periosteum (2 types)

  • Pericranium covers the outer surface
  • Endocranium covers the inner surface
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The vestibulocochlear nerve exits the skull where?

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The internal audiotry meatus

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The stylomastoid foramen has what nerve passing through it?

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Facial nerve 7

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The maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve (V2) passes through what foramen?

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The foramen rotundum

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What is a fonatanelle?

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“soft spots”

most close by 2 years

fibrous tissue and cartilage connection in areas where parietal bones aren’t developed

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What is the covering over the pituitary gland through which the infundibulum must penetrate?

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the diaphragma sella