Intermediate Mandibular Nerve Quiz
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Q1. Where do the sensory and motor components of V3 unite?
- Just inferior to the foramen ovale in the infratemporal fossa
- Inside the internal acoustic meatus
- Within the optic canal
- Within the jugular foramen
Q2. Which branch of V3 re-enters the cranial cavity through the foramen spinosum?
- Mental nerve
- Buccal nerve
- Meningeal branch
- Lingual nerve
Q3. Which branch arises from the main trunk of V3 and supplies tensor veli palatini and tensor tympani?
- Inferior alveolar nerve
- Masseteric nerve
- Auriculotemporal nerve
- Nerve to medial pterygoid
Q4. Which division of V3 is predominantly motor?
- Anterior division
- Both divisions are purely sensory
- Neither division carries motor fibers
- Posterior division
Q5. Which division of V3 is predominantly sensory?
- Anterior division
- Both divisions are purely motor
- Main trunk only
- Posterior division
Q6. Which V3 branch typically forms two roots around the middle meningeal artery?
- Buccal nerve
- Inferior alveolar nerve
- Auriculotemporal nerve
- Lingual nerve
Q7. Which nerve joins the lingual nerve in the infratemporal fossa and carries taste and preganglionic parasympathetic fibers?
- Chorda tympani
- Tympanic nerve
- Greater petrosal nerve
- Lesser petrosal nerve
Q8. Which motor branch leaves the inferior alveolar nerve before it enters the mandibular foramen?
- Incisive nerve
- Auriculotemporal nerve
- Nerve to mylohyoid
- Mental nerve
Q9. Which muscles are supplied by the nerve to mylohyoid?
- Buccinator and orbicularis oris
- Stylohyoid and posterior belly of digastric
- Genioglossus and hyoglossus
- Mylohyoid and anterior belly of digastric
Q10. Which V3 branch carries postganglionic parasympathetic fibers from the otic ganglion to the parotid gland?
- Buccal nerve
- Inferior alveolar nerve
- Lingual nerve
- Auriculotemporal nerve