ANATOMY

by Dr Anber Saleem

01. A patient has head injury. He has running nose with higher content of glucose. Which region
of nose is damaged?
a) Nasal
b) Cribriform plate
c) Palate
d) Vomer

02. Artery that passes between anterior and medial scalene muscles, which supply upper limb is
called
a) Subclavian artery
b) Brachiocephalic artery
c) Axillary artery
d) Brachial artery

03. A person has bleeding from superficial temporal artery. Which artery must be pinched to stop
bleeding?
a) Internal carotid artery
b) External carotid artery
c) Maxillary artery
d) Facial artery

04. Which of the following part of axis is not weight bearing?

a) Superior articular facets
b) Odontoid process
c) Lateral masses
d) Body

05. A muscular person has arterial insufficiency in his upper limb. Which vessel is blocked by
developed anterior and middle scalene muscles?
a) Brachiocephalic artery
b) Brachiocephalic vein
c) Subclavian artery
d) Subclavian vein
06. Which foramen is present in anterior cranial fossa?
a) Foramen cecum
b) Foramen ovale
c) Foramen lacerum
d) Optic canal

07. A 45-year-old male construction worker slips and falls on a nail protruding from a board. The
nail penetrates the skin overlying the submental triangle lateral to the midline. Which of the
following muscles would be the first to be penetrated?
a) Platysma
b) Sternocleidomastoid
c) Mylohyoid
d) Omohyoid

08. Which of the following cervical vertebrae is designated as vertebrae prominence as it has the
longest spinous process?
a) C4
b) C5
c) C6
d) C7

09. Anterior tubercle of which of the following vertebrae is designated as the carotid tubercle?
a) C4
b) C5
c) C6
d) C7

10. Which structure of sphenoid bone is not visible from norma basalis?
a) Lesser wing
b) Greater wing
c) Body of sphenoid
d) Pterygoid process

11. Which of the following landmarks represent union of frontal, temporal, sphenoid and parietal
bone?
a) Lambda
b) Bregma
c) Pterion
d) Nasion
12. Damage to foramen rotundum damages which nerve?
a) Ophthalmic part of trigeminal nerve
b) Maxillary part of trigeminal nerve
c) Mandibular part of trigeminal nerve
d) Meningeal nerve

13. A 67-year-old man visits the outpatient clinic with hearing problems. During physical
examination a Rinne’s test for hearing is performed by placing a tuning fork on his head to
test for bone conduction. Upon what specific point should the tuning fork be placed to test
conduction?
a) Temporal bone
b) Frontal bone
c) Occipital bone
d) Parietal bone

14. Which nerve passes through foramen ovale?

a) Greater petrosal nerve
b) Mandibular nerve
c) Optic nerve
d) Facial nerve

15. Which artery arises from 1st part of maxillary artery?

a) Middle meningeal artery
b) Infra optic artery
c) Superficial temporal artery
d) Internal jugular artery

16. Blow to pterion damages

a) Superficial temporal artery
b) Ophthalmic nerve
c) Middle meningeal artery
d) Middle meningeal nerve

17. An anesthesiologist is planning regional anesthesia in neck for cervical plexus blockage. He
should apply anesthesia on the posterior border of which muscle?
a) Trapezius
b) Scalene anterior
c) Sternocleidomastoid
d) Inferior belly of omohyoid
18. A person is hit by hammer at pterion, which structure is damaged?
a) Greater wing of sphenoid bone
b) Zygomatic process of temporal bone
c) Mastoid process of temporal bone
d) Pterygoid process of sphenoid bone

19. An anesthesiologist at the head of operating table often takes impulse anterior to auricle as
the artery crosses zygomatic trunk to supply scalp. Pulsations of which artery can be felt
there?
a) Superficial temporal artery
b) Maxillary artery
c) Facial artery
d) Infra orbital artery

20. Which type of movement is not possible at the cervical part of vertebral column?
a) Flexion
b) Extension
c) Lateral flexion
d) Rotation

21. A 20 year old boy was brought to emergency with stab wound to upper part of neck. Sensory
innervation was lost at angle of mandible. Which structure is most likely to be damaged?
a) Transverse cervical nerve
b) Greater occipital nerve
c) Lesser occipital nerve
d) Greater auricular nerve

22. A patient has injury in omoclavicular triangle, which structure may be damaged?
a) Ansa cervicalis
b) Hypoglossal nerve
c) Vagus nerve
d) Common carotid artery

23. Superior root of ansa cervicalis separates from hypoglossal nerve in which of the following
triangles?
a) Subclavian triangle
b) Muscular triangle
c) Carotid triangle
d) Digastric triangle
24. Pulsations of which artery can be felt at inferior margin of mandible?
a) Maxillary artery
b) Facial artery
c) Superficial temporal artery
d) Transverse cervical artery

25. The right subclavian artery arises from brachiocephalic artery behind which of the following
structure?
a) Sternoclavicular joint
b) Acromioclavicular joint
c) Arch of aorta
d) 1st rib

26. A person comes in OPD with inflamed posterior cervical lymph nodes, biopsy may damage
which nerve?
a) Vagus nerve
b) Hypoglossal nerve
c) Glossopharyngeal nerve
d) Spinal accessory nerve

27. A female had oral surgery for mandibular third molar tooth. Inferior alveolar nerve is
damaged. Which of the following muscles is paralyzed?
a) Mylohyoid
b) Stylohyoid
c) Geniohyoid
d) Platysma

28. A doctor asks the patient to clench his teeth. He is examining which of the following muscles?
a) Sternocleidomastoid
b) Trapezius
c) Infrahyoid muscles
d) Platysma

29. Which of the following hyoid muscles is an important surface landmark for both anterior and
posterior triangles of neck?
a) Omohyoid
b) Stylohyoid
c) Geniohyoid
d) Mylohyoid
30. Pulsation of common carotid artery can be felt at which site?
a) Posterior border of sternocleidomastoid at upper border of thyroid cartilage.
b) Posterior border of sternocleidomastoid at lower border of thyroid cartilage.
c) Anterior border of sternocleidomastoid at upper border of thyroid cartilage.
d) Anterior border of sternocleidomastoid at lower border of thyroid cartilage.

31. External Jugular vein is formed by

a) Internal Jugular vein and anterior division of retromandibular vein
b) Posterior auricular vein and posterior division of retromandibular vein
c) Superficial temporal vein and maxillary vein
d) Anterior jugular vein and posterior jugular vein

32. A 6 months old baby was brought to the surgical OPD with his head tilted to the right side.
The child suffered traumatic birth injury in the past. Through examination shortening of
muscle and chin angled slightly to the left was observed. Which muscle is likely to be
damaged?
a) Right trapezius
b) Left trapezius
c) Left sternocleidomastoid
d) Right sternocleidomastoid

33. Which muscle divides the anterior and posterior triangles of neck into smaller triangles?
a) Omohyoid
b) Mylohyoid
c) Sternohyoid
d) Digastric

34. A surgeon is going to perform surgery of a lung, he wants to anaesthetize one side of
diaphragm. He will apply anesthetic to anterior surface of which muscle?
a) Scalene anterior
b) Scalene medius
c) Scalene posterior
d) Sternocleidomastoid

35. The coronal suture and sagittal suture meet at

a) Lambda
b) Bregma
c) Pterion
d) Asterion
36. Which of the following muscles forms the floor of submental triangle?
a) Anterior belly of digastric
b) Posterior belly of digastric
c) Mylohyoid
d) Omohyoid

37. Which triangle separates hyoid bone from symphysis menti

a) Carotid triangle
b) Muscular triangle
c) Submental triangle
d) Subclavian triangle

38. The indicated injury of sella turcica is in which bone?

a) Temporal bone
b) Sphenoid bone
c) Zygomatic bone
d) Occipital bone

39. Injury of optic canal damages

a) Optic nerve
b) Ophthalmic artery
c) Inferior ophthalmic vein
d) Olfactory bulb

40. A surgeon has to take central venous pressure through the internal jugular vein. What is the
best landmark to locate internal jugular vein?
a) Between two heads of sternocleidomastoid
b) Sternal angle
c) Posterior border of sternocleidomastoid
d) Subclavian triangle

41. The inferior end of medial pterygoid plate is prolonged as a curved spike of bone called as
a) Spine
b) Hamulus
c) Styloid process
d) Supra meatal crest
42. Which structure separates medial and lateral pterygoid plates?
a) Scaphoid fossa
b) Pterygoid fossa
c) Hamulus of medial pterygoid plate
d) Hamulus of lateral pterygoid plate

43. Which of the following nerve is derived from dorsal primary rami of spinal cervical nerves?
a) Greater occipital nerve
b) Lesser occipital nerve
c) Great auricular nerve
d) Transverse cervical nerve

44. Damage to superior orbital fissure damages which structure?

a) Ophthalmic nerve
b) Inferior ophthalmic vein
c) Ophthalmic artery
d) Optic nerve

45. Costocervical trunk originates from

a) 1st part of subclavian artery
b) 2nd part of subclavian artery
c) 3rd part of subclavian artery
d) None of these

46. Which structure passes through foramina in cribriform plate?

a) Olfactory nerves
b) Optic nerves
c) Trochlear nerves
d) Nasal nerves

47. During surgery if carotid sheath is distorted then which structure stays at the same place?
a) Common carotid artery
b) Internal jugular vein
c) Vagus nerve
d) Cervical sympathetic trunk

48. Joint between horizontal plates of palatine bones is called

Interpalatine suture