Note that what I have written here is just an overview based on what you had or will dissect
during this whole dissection course, so I might neglect something or forgot to write
something that are required in your credit test. Examiners might, of course, expect more
than what I have listed.
Head
Muscles: Mimic muscles(CN VII), mastifactory muscles(CN V3, origin, insertion and
innervations are typical questions)
Organs: Parotid gland, sympathetic and parasympathetic innervations, parotid duct(Which
muscle it pierces? Buccinator)
Topography: infratemporal fossa, mandibular canal, Orbit-frontal artery and nerve, muscles,
lacrimal artery, supratrochlear and infratrochlear nerve, lacrimal gland, CNIII, IV, VI,
nasocilliary nerve, anterior and posterior ethmoidal nerve, long and short cilliary nerve,
cilliary ganglion
Artery and Veins: Superficial temporal artery and vein, auriculotemporal nerve (these three
are always together), Facial artery and vein, maxillary artery and branches
Nerves: Supraorbital nerve, infraorbital nerve, facial nerve, parotid plexus(5 main branches),
Buccal nerve, lingual nerve, inferior alveolar nerve
Neck
Muscle: Platysma, infrahyoid muscles, sternocleidomastoid(CNXI together with trapezius;
lesser supraclavicular triangle: border-two heads of SCM and clavicle, cupula is found here),
hyoglossus, mylohyoid, digastrics, suboccipital triangle
Organs: Submandibular gland and duct
Topography: Submental triangle, submandibular triangle, carotid triangle, Pirogoff’s triangle
and Beclard angle (where you can find lingual artery), lateral cervical triangle, scalenic
fissure, scalenovertebral triangle
Artery and Veins: Lingual artery and vein, submental artery and vein, external and internal
jugular vein, retromandibular vein, superior and inferior thyroid arteries(note their different
origin!), superior laryngeal artery, carotid arteries and their branches(Which arteries supply
brain? Internal carotid artery and vertebral artery), thyrocervical trunk, vertebral artery,
occipital artery
Nerve: Punctum Nervosum, cutaneous nerves of cervical plexus, phrenic nerve, hypoglossal
nerve, superior, inferior and recurrent laryngeal nerve, deep ansa cervicalis, vagus nerve,
brachial plexus(pars supraclavicularis),
Thorax
Point of auscultation(All Physicians Take Money)
Muscles: Pectoralis major and minor, transverse thoracic muscle, external intercostal
muscle(function: inspiration), internal intercostals muscle
Organs: Diaphragm, Lung(topography, note differences in both left and right lungs;
difference between left and right main brochi), Heart(coronary arteries and branches, 3
systems of veins(coronary sinus, anterior cardiac veins and Thebesian veins, structures)
Topography: Deltoideopectoral triangle and groove
Artery and Vein: Cephalic vein, azygos vein, thoracoacromial artrery, internal thoracic
vessels, arch of aorta and branches
Nerve: Supraclavicular nerve, phrenic nerve
Abdomen /Pelvis
Lanz, McBurney, Murphy, Desjardin Points
Muscles: Muscles of abdominal wall, sheath of rectus abdominis
Topography: Supra- and infrapiriform foramen, Inguinal Canal, hernias
Organ: Liver (Topography, vessels), kidney, suprarenal gland(3 arteries with different
origins!), rectum(3 arteries with different origins!), Round ligament of uterus, vas deferens,
ureters
Artery and Vein: Superficial epigastric vessels, inferior epigastric vessels, vessels supplying
GIT and their branches, arcades of jejuna and ileal vessels, iliac vessels and their branches
Nerve: Lumbar plexus, sacral plexus, hypogastric plexus
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Muscles
Vertebral canal