PLE Category: Anatomy

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A 26-year-old man is involved in an automobile accident and slams his head into a concrete wall of a bridge. His computed tomography (CT) scan reveals that the middle meningeal artery has ruptured but the meninges remain intact. Blood leaking from this artery enters which of the following spaces?

PLE-646

A 25-year-old guard at the gate of the Royal King’s palace blinks his eyes when a strong wind hits the cornea of his eye. The afferent fibers of the corneal reflex arc are carried by which of the following nerves?

PLE-647

A 25-year-old man falls from his motorcycle and lands in a creek. Death may result from bilateral severance of which of the following nerves?

PLE-644

A 24-year-old woman who receives a deep cut to her ring finger by a kitchen knife is unable to move the metacarpophalangeal joint. Which of the following pairs of nerves was damaged?

PLE-645

A 25-year-old carpenter suffers a crush injury of his entire little finger. Which of the following muscles is most likely to be spared?

PLE-641

A 24-year-old man received a gunshot wound, and his greater splanchnic nerve was destroyed. Which of the following nerve fibers would be injured?

PLE-642

A 24-year-old massage therapist who specializes in women’s health attends a lecture at an annual conference on techniques of massage. She asks, What structure is drained by the lumbar (aortic) lymph nodes? Which of the following structures is the correct answer to this question?

PLE-643

A 24-year-old woman visits her obstetrician for an annual checkup. During vaginal examination, which of the following structures may be palpated?

PLE-640

A 24-year-old man falls from a ladder and injures his arm. On examination, he feels numbness and has no sweating on the lateral side of his forearm, indicating damage to the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve. The cell bodies of injured nerve fibers involved in sweating are located in which of the following structures?