Anatomy
Question N1 The nasal cavities are separated from oral cavity with by the ___________________
Answer: Hard and soft palatete
Question N2 The aortic semilunar valve prevents blood from returning to the _____.
Answer: left ventricle
Question N3 The _____________ has the thickest wall because it pumps blood to the systemic circuit.
Answer: left ventricle
Question N4 The thoracic duct begins as a confluence of lymph trunks in the abdomen, sometimes forming a saccular dilation referred to as the ___________________________
Answer: cisternea chily
Question N5 Inferior vena cavae lies immediately to the right of the ____________________
Answer: Abdominal Aorta
Question N6 The inferior mesenteric artery originates at the _______ vertebra
Answer: L3
Question N7 The profunda brachii artery, the largest branch of the brachial artery
Answer: true
Question N8 The sciatic nerve innervates: all muscles in the posterior compartment of the thigh
Answer: true
Question N9 femoral vein becomes the external iliac vein when it passes under the inguinal ligament to enter the abdomen
Answer: true
Question N10 The axillary artery is separated into 3 parts by pectoralis major
Answer: false
Question N11 Inferior mesenteric artery: Its branches include the right colic artery, several sigmoid arteries, and the superior rectal artery.
Answer: true
Question N12 The major artery of the arm, the brachial artery, is found in the posterior compartment of the arm
Answer: false
Question N13 The ulnar artery and ulnar nerve enter the hand on the lateral side of the wrist
Answer: false
Question N14 The major artery of the pelvis and perineum is the external iliac artery on each side
Answer: false
Question N15 The internal iliac artery originates from the common iliac artery on each side, and lies anteromedial to the sacro-iliac joint
Answer: true
Question N16 The mental artery enters the face through the mental foramen and supplies the chin
Answer: true
Question N17 The inferior vena cava ascends on the left side of the vertebral bodies and to the left of the abdominal aorta.
Answer: false
Question N18 In men, the testicular arteries originate from the internal iliac artery and descend into the scrotum through the inguinal canal to supply the testes
Answer: false
Question N19 A 60-year-old man who had a history of a chronic duodenal ulcer was admitted to the ER exhibiting signs of a severe internal hemorrhage. He was quickly diagnosed with a perforation of the posterior wall of the first part of the duodenum and erosion of an artery behind it by the gastric expellant. The artery is most likely:
Answer: Gastroduodenal
Question N20 Which of the following artery supplies superior part of the abdominal wall at the deeper level?
Answer: Superior epigastric artery
Question N21 All of the following arteries are branches of the anterior trunk of internal iliac artery EXCEPT:
Answer: Lateral sacral artery
Question N22 What is the term for the abnormal dilation or ballooning of the abdominal aorta?
Answer: Abdominal Aneurysm
Question N23 Which of the following artery exits from pelvic cavity above the piriformis muscle?
Answer: superior gluteal artery
Question N24 From which artery arises superior vesicular artery
Answer: Internal iliac artery
Question N25 External pudendal artery arises from:
Answer: Femoral artery
Question N26 Internal pudendal artery participates in the blood supply of rectum by which artery?
Answer: None of them above
Question N27 Which of the following artery is present in men but not in women?
Answer: Inferior vesical
Question N28 All of the following arteries supply erectile tissue in men EXCEPT?
Answer: Uterine artery
Question N29 Adductor region of thigh is supplied by:
Answer: Obturator
Question N30 Which of the following artery passes between anterior rami of S1 and lumbosacral trunk?
Answer: Superior gluteal
Question N31 A 17-year-old boy suffered multiple stab wounds on the upper part of the arm and requires surgery. If the brachia! artery were ligated at its origin, which of the following arteries would supply blood to the profunda brachii artery?
Answer: Posterior humeral circumflex
Question N32 A patient complains if having pain with repetitive movement of his thumb. His physician performs Allen test and finds an insufficiency of the radial artery. Which of the following conditions would be a result of the radial artery stenosis.
Answer: A marked decrease in the blood flow in the princeps pollicis artery
Question N33 Which of the following is not a direct branch of the axillary artery?
Answer: Thoracodorsal
Question N34 If the second part of axillary artery was interrupted, collateral blood flow could pass from branches of the thyrocervical trunk into which artery?
Answer: Circumflex scapular
Question N35 In a fracture of surgical neck of the humerus, which artery may be injured
Answer: Posterior circumflex humeral
Question N36 In a fracture of the midshaft of the humerus, which artery is most likely to be injured?
Answer: Profunda brachii
Question N19 Mediastinum contains all the following structures EXCEPT:
Answer: Lungs
Question N20 The ________ is tough connective tissue that defines the boundaries of the middle mediastinum.
Answer: pericardium
Question N21 Coronary sulcus separates:
Answer: Atrial from ventricle
Question N22 Coronary sulcus contains:
Answer: right coronary artery
Question N23 Which posterior mediastinal structure is most closely applied to the posterior surface of the pericardial sac
Answer: esophagus
Question N24 A hand slipped behind the heart at its apex can be extended upwards until stopped by a line of pericardial reflection that forms the:
Answer: oblique pericardial sinus
Question N25 Fibrous pericardium is attached to the diaphragm by:
Answer: Sternodiaphragmatic ligament
Question N26 Coronary sinus is located in the:
Answer: Coronary sulcus on the posterior surface of the heart
Question N27 The right coronary artery supplies all the following parts of the heart EXCEPT:
Answer: superior portion of the atrioventricular section
Question N28 “Left main stem vessel” is alternative name of which artery?
Answer: None of them above
Question N29 In which of the following structure drains the veins of Thabesius?
Answer: right ventricle
Question N30 A 54-year-old patient with amyloidosis and subsequent cardiac dysrhythmias undergoes implantation with the artificial cardiac pacemaker. Which of the following conductive tissues of the heart was defective in function that required pacemaker?
Answer: SA node
Question N31 An 8-year-old boy with an ASD presents to his pediatrician. This congenital heart defect shunts blood from the left atrium to the right atrium and causes hypertrophy of the right atrium, right ventricle and pulmonary trunk. Which of the following veins opens into the hypertrophied atrium?
Answer: Anterior cardiac vein
Question N32 Arch of Aorta starts after:
Answer: Aorta enters to superior mediastinum
Question N33 The most common congenital heart defect is:
Answer: ventricular septal defect
Question N34 A 19-year-old man was brought to the emergency department after a motor vehicle accident, and his angiogram exhibited that he was bleeding from the vein that is accompanied by the posterior interventricular artery. Which of the following veins is most likely to be ruptured?
Answer: Middle cardiac vein
Question N35 A 56-year-old patient recently suffered a myocardial infarction on the apex of the heart. The occlusion by atherosclerosis is in which of the following arteries?
Answer: Anterior interventricular artery
Question N36 Coronary angiogram of a 44-year-old man reveals an occlusion of the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery, which leads to myocardial infarction in which of the following areas?
Answer: Left atrium and ventricle
Question N22 A 64-year-old man with a history of liver cirrhosis has been examined for the hepatitis A, B and C. in an attempt to obtain a blood sample from the patient’s medial cubital vein, nurse misses the vein and gets arterial blood. The blood most likely comes from which of the following arteries?
Answer: radial
Question N23 Superficial palmar arch is mainly created by:
Answer: Ulnar artery
Question N24 In case of open injury of thumb, which of the following artery may be damaged?
Answer: Princeps pollicis artery
Question N25 _______ vein will become axillary vein at the lower border of teres major muscle.
Answer: Basilic
Question N26 Your patient complains of pain on her calf. Upon inspection, you find tortuous, dilated vessels lying subcutaneously on the posterior aspect of her leg. These vessels are most likely:
Answer: Tributaries to the lesser saphenous vein
Question N27 The pulse of the femoral artery is best felt in which superficial reference point?
Answer: Femoral triangle
Question N28 The femoral artery enters the popliteal fossa (becoming the popliteal artery) by passing through the:
Answer: Adductor hiatus
Question N29 During surgical repair of a popliteal artery aneurism, ligation of femoral artery at mid-thigh would not interrupt supply to the hamstring muscles because:
Answer: Cruciate anastomosis ensures blood supply to the posterior thigh
Question N30 Branch of internal iliac artery that exits through the greater sciatic foramen superior to the piriformis muscle:
Answer: Superior gluteal
Question N31 A construction worker lacerates the dorsum of his foot just below his ankle. Profuse bleeding that occurs would result from cutting which vessel?
Answer: Dorsalis pedis artery
Question N32 Arcuate artery is a branch of the:
Answer: Anterior tibial artery
Question N33 External iliac vein will be created after ______ vein passes beneath inguinal ligament
Answer: Femoral
Question N34 Which of the following lumbar veins usually drain into the inferior vena cava?
Answer: 3rd and 4th
Question N35 Which of the following statements about the abdominal aorta is correct?
Answer: The abdominal aorta is entirely retroperitoneal
Question N36 The left gonadal vein drains into the:
Answer: Left renal vein
Question N10 The axillary nerve originates from the posterior cord of the spacupar plexus
Answer: false
Question N11 The axillary nerve innervates the deltoid and teres minor muscles
Answer: true
Question N17 The right recurrent laryngeal nerve originates in the thorax, whereas the left recurrent laryngeal nerve originates in the root of the neck
Answer: false
Question N19 Suprapleural membrane attaches to the transverse process of vertebra:
Answer: CVII
Question N20 From The midclavicular line to the vertebral column the inferior boundary of the visceral pleura can be pproximated by a line that runs between:
Answer: Rib VI, Rib VIII, TX
Question N34 What is pneumothorax?
Answer: A condition where air enters the pleural cavity
Question N22 What is the ligament that attaches epiglottis to thyroid cartilage?
Answer: Thyro-epiglottic
Question N23 Trachea extends approximately between levels of:
Answer: C6-T4 \ CVI - TIV
Question N24 Which of the following is a function of the cartilaginous tracheal rings:
Answer: Support tracheal wall and prevent air passageway from collapsing
Question N25 The bronchi, that directly conduct air in and out of the lung's bronchopulmonary segments are called:
Answer: Tertiary bronchi
Question N26 A 31-year-old man was involved in a severe car accident and suffered laceration of the left primary bronchus. The damaged primary bronchus:
Answer: Is longer than the right primary bronchus
Question N27 The Carina is:
Answer: The lowest tracheal ring
Question N28 The medial surface of the right lung lies adjacent to a following structures in the mediastinum EXCEPT:
Answer: aorta
Question N29 Right bronchial artery arises from:
Answer: Descending thoracic aorta
Question N30 The lymph nodes found in the hilum of the lung are the:
Answer: hilar lymph nodes
Question N31 Which of the following describes characteristics of left lung.
Answer: Lingula of the lung
Question N32 The horizontal fissure separates:
Answer: right middle lobe from the right upper lobe
Question N33 A 37-year-old patient with chronic intermittent palpitation was examined by her physician, and one of the diagnostic studies included a posterior-anterior chest X-ray. Which of the following comprises the largest portion of the sternocostal surface of the heart seen on the radiograph?
Answer: Right ventricle (from google)
Question N35 A radiologist reviews the chest radiographs a 27-year-old victim of a car accident. Which of the following structures forms the right border of the cardiovascular silhouette?
Answer: SVC superior vena cava
Question N36 A 45-year-old woman presents with a tumor confined to the posterior mediastinum. This could result in compression of which of the following structures?
Answer: descending aorta
Question N34 A 5-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department because of difficulty breathing, palpitations and shortness of breath. Dopler study of the heart reveals and atrial septal defect. This malformation usually results from incomplete closure of which of the following embryonic structure?
Answer: Foramen ovale ( foramen secondum) - (from google)
Question N11 The axillary nerve innervates the deltoid and teres minor muscles
Answer: true
Question N19 …….the continuation of the anterior tibial artery and begins as the anterior tibial artery crosses the ankle joint
Answer: Dorsalis pedis artery
Question N20 From the third party of axillary artery originates all the branches, EXCEPT:
Answer: Superior thoracic artery
Question N21 Identify superficial vein that drains the lateral and posterior parts of the hand, the forearm, and the arm:
Answer: Cephalic vein
Question N22 At the apex of cubital fossa brachial artery divides into two major branches:
Answer: Radial and Ulnar artery
Question N23 Which of the following provides the principal blood supply to the lateral side of the little finger, both sides of the ring and middle fingers, and the medial side of the index finger
Answer: Common palmar digital arteries
Question N24 Which of the following supplies crus and corpus cavernosum of penis:
Answer: Deep artery of the penis
Question N25 External puidendal arteries originate from:
Answer: Femoral artery
Question N26 Bladder, ureter and seminal vesicle in men is supplied by:
Answer: inferior vesical artery
Question N27 The Pleura is a ________ membrane that surrounds the lungs.
Answer: Serous
Question N28 The space between the parietal and visceral pleura is called:
Answer: Plueral cavity
Question N29 Which of the following is true about arytenoid cartilage?
Answer: Vocal cords are attached to it
Question N30 Which cartilage of the larynx is located inferior to the cricoid cartilage?
Answer: None of the above
Question N31 The Choanae are:
Answer: Oval-shaped openings between the nasal cavity and nasopharynx.
Question N33 From The midclavicular line to the vertebral column the inferior boundary of the visceral pleura can be approximated by a line that runs between:
Answer: 6th,8th,10th,ribs
Question N19 Which of the following is correct about thoracic duct
Answer: Thoracic duct drains lymph to the junction of left subclavian and left internal jugular vein
Question N20 Which of the following is CORRECT?
Answer: The thoracic duct extends from vertebra LII to the root of the neck
Question N24 Which of the following is CORRECT?
Answer: Right and left gastric veins draining the lesser curva¬ture of the stomach and abdominal esophagus
Question N21 Middle colic, right colic and ileocolic arteries are the branches of:
Answer: superior mesenteric artery
Question N22 Mostly, descending colons is supplied by:
Answer: Left colic artery
Question N23 In most cases, Inferior mesenteric vein drains blood to:
Answer: splenic vein
Question N25 All of the cartilages are part of larynx, EXCEPT:
Answer: Nasal septal cartilage
Question N26 The Cricoid cartilage has two article facets on each side, one for thyroid cartilage and one for:
Answer: arytenoid cartilage
Question N27 Which of the following cartilage has muscular process and vocal process
Answer: Arytenoid cartilages
Question N28 All are true about larynx, EXCEPT
Answer: The angle between the two laminae ( Thyroid angle ) is more acute in women - 90 degree
Question N29 During quiet respiration, in midaxillary line, inferior margin of the lung crosses rib:
Answer: VIII
Question N30 Horizontal fissure seperates:
Answer: superior from the middle
Question N31 How many lobar bronchus have right lung?
Answer: 3
Question N32 Which of the following is true?
Answer: Right main bronchus is wider and has more vertical courser than left
Question N33 All of the following are the parts of hilum, EXCEPT:
Answer: Superior Vena Cava
Question N34 External iliac artery becomes ………. artery as the vessel passes under the inguinal ligament
Answer: Femoral
Question N35 ……………has lateral and medial circumflex femoral branches and three perforating branches
Answer: Deep artery of the thigh
Question N36 From the Originates anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Answer: popliteal artery
Question N32 A 47-year-old man with a known history of chronic atrial fibrillation returns to see his cardiologist for follow-up of his cardiac health. The right atrium is important in this case because it:
Answer: Contains the SA node
Question N33 The Superior mediastinum:
Answer: Left recurrent laryngeal nerve
Question N34 The superior mediastinum contains all of the following EXCEPT:
Answer: the coronary arteries
Question N35 Which statement is incorrect regarding left brachiocephalic vein?
Answer: Receives the accessory hemiazygos vein
Question N36 The ligamentum arteriosus:
Answer: Attach aorta to pulmonary artery