Free Head and Neck MCQs with Answers

• A. Masseter
• B. Medial pterygoid
• C. Temporalis
• D. Digastric

Explanation: The medial pterygoid elevates and assists protrusion of the mandible, while unilateral contraction produces rotation toward the opposite…

• A. Arises from hyoid bone
• B. developed from second pharyngeal arch
• C. Depresses the hyoid
• D. Elevates the hyoid

Explanation: Mylohyoid is a first-pharyngeal-arch muscle that elevates the hyoid and floor of the mouth; it arises from the mylohyoid line of the…

• A. Buccinator
• B. Masseter
• C. Temporalis
• D. Pterygoids

Explanation: The four muscles of mastication are masseter, temporalis, medial pterygoid and lateral pterygoid.

• A. Depression of mandible
• B. Protrusion of mandible
• C. Side- to- side movement of mandible
• D. Depressing the floor of the mouth

Explanation: When the hyoid is fixed, the digastric muscle depresses the mandible and helps open the mouth.

• A. Genioglossus
• B. Geniohyoid
• C. Mylohyoid
• D. Masseter

Explanation: The mylohyoid muscles form the muscular floor of the mouth, extending from the mylohyoid lines of the mandible to the hyoid and median…

• A. Mylohyoid muscle
• B. Genioglossus muscle
• C. Buccinator muscle
• D. Orbicularis oris muscle

Explanation: The paired mylohyoid muscles form the oral diaphragm, a muscular sling that supports the floor of the mouth and separates it from the…

• A. Hypoglossal nerve
• B. Lingual artery
• C. Stylohyoid muscle
• D. Geniohyoid muscle

Explanation: The lingual artery lies deep to hyoglossus, whereas the hypoglossal nerve passes superficially over its lateral surface.

• A. Levator palatine
• B. Palatopharyngeus
• C. Tensor palatine
• D. Stylopharyngeus

Explanation: Tensor veli palatini forms a tendon that turns around the pterygoid hamulus before spreading into the soft palate.

• A. Ansa cervicalis
• B. Hypoglossal nerve
• C. Tenth cranial nerve
• D. Ansa sublavia

Explanation: Ansa cervicalis supplies most infrahyoid muscles, including sternohyoid, sternothyroid and omohyoid.

• A. Digastric
• B. Lateral pterygoid
• C. Masseter
• D. Temporalis

Explanation: The digastric has two muscle bellies with different nerve supplies: the anterior belly is supplied by the mylohyoid nerve, while the…

• A. Sphenomandibular
• B. Stylomandibular
• C. Pterygomandibular
• D. All of the above

Explanation: The stylomandibular ligament becomes taut during certain mandibular movements and helps limit excessive protrusion and opening.

• A. Mobile
• B. Supple
• C. Immobile
• D. None of the above

Explanation: During wide opening of the mouth, the modiolus at the angle of the mouth is fixed by the coordinated pull of surrounding facial muscles.

• A. Tip of the tongue
• B. Base of the tongue
• C. Lateral part of the tongue
• D. Hyoid bone

Explanation: Hyoglossus arises from the hyoid bone and ascends to insert into the side of the tongue, extending toward its posterior part.

• A. Auriculotemporal nerve
• B. Facial nerve
• C. Massetric nerve
• D. Auricular nerve

Explanation: The auriculotemporal nerve, a branch of V3, provides the main sensory supply to the TMJ capsule.

• A. Levator palati
• B. Palat glossus
• C. Tensor palati
• D. Musculus uvulae

Explanation: Tensor veli palatini is the only soft-palate muscle supplied by the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve through the nerve to…

• A. Platysma
• B. Sternohyoid
• C. Sternocleidomastoid
• D. Omohyoid

Explanation: Wry neck, or torticollis, results from shortening or spasm of the sternocleidomastoid, producing lateral flexion and rotation of the neck.

• A. Body of hyoid bone
• B. Mandible
• C. Pterygomandibular raphae
• D. Cricoid cartilage

Explanation: The middle pharyngeal constrictor arises from the greater and lesser horns of the hyoid bone, including attachment near its body.

• A. Condyles move upwards
• B. Articular disc moves posteriorly
• C. Lateral pterygoids contract
• D. Condyles moves around vertical axis

Explanation: Wide opening of the jaw requires contraction of the lateral pterygoid, which pulls the mandibular condyle and articular disc forwards onto…

• A. Levator palpebrae superioris muscle
• B. Lateral rectus
• C. inferior oblique
• D. Superior oblique

Explanation: The lacrimal gland occupies the lacrimal fossa in the superolateral orbit, and its orbital and palpebral parts are separated by the…

• A. Condyle
• B. Stylo mandibular ligament
• C. Medial pterygoid muscle
• D. Lateral pterygoid muscle

Explanation: The lateral pterygoid pulls the articular disc and mandibular condyle forwards during protrusion and opening of the mouth.