Chapter 6

Question 1

• True or False? Rectus capitis anterior is easy to palpate

Answer 1

False

Question 2

• Which muscle name means “temple”?

Answer 2

Temporalis

Question 3

• Which of the following muscles is one of the largest and most superficial muscles in the neck?

Answer 3

Sternocleidomastoid

Question 4

• True or False? The rectus capitis posterior major is one of the four muscles that make up the suboccipital group

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or False? Obliquus capitis inferior is one of four muscles that make up the suboccipital group

Answer 5

True

Question 6

• Which muscles work together to laterally flex and stabilize the head and neck?

Answer 6

Scalenes

Question 7

Medial pterygoid attached to which bone?

Answer 7

Mandible

Question 8

Which of the following actions is performed by the semispinalis?

Answer 8

Holds the head upright against gravity

Question 9

True or False? Obliquus capitis superior retracts the mandible

Answer 9

False

Question 10

True or False? Rectus capitis postior minor extends the head

Answer 10

True

Question 11

• Which of the following muscles is very small and deep in the anterior neck?

Answer 11

Rectus capitis anterior

Question 12

Which of the following muscles is part of the paravertebral group, which helps stabilize the anterior neck and keep the head from falling back?

Answer 12

Longus capitis

Question 13

• which of the following muscle names may be roughly translated as “long neck”?

Answer 13

Longus colli

Question 14

• the suprahyoid muscles perform which of the following functions?

Answer 14

Elevate the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage during swallowing

Question 15

Which of the following muscles depresses the mandible and descends from the mastoid process of the temporal bone to the hyoid bone posteriorly?

Answer 15

Digastric

Question 16

• Platysma functions primarily in which of the following ways?

Answer 16

Facial expressions of stress or anger

Question 17

Which muscle depresses and protracts the mandible and moves it laterally, assisting in chewing?

Answer 17

Lateral pterygoid

Question 18

• Which of the following muscles is large and broad, making it more effective prime mover for extension, lateral flexion, and rotation of the head and neck?

Answer 18

Splenius capitis

Question 19

Which four muscles are the infrhyoid muscles?

Answer 19

Sternohyoid, thyrohyoid, omohyoid, sternothyroid

Question 20

• Which muscle , pound for pound, is the strongest muscle in the body and generates most of the force for biting and chewing?

Answer 20

Masseter