Xirius-THIGH22-ANA201.pdf

Course: ANA201 • Xirius AI

1. The anterior division of the femoral nerve provides motor branches to which muscle?

2. Which of the following arteries does NOT directly branch from the femoral artery?

3. Which nerve is responsible for innervating the short head of the biceps femoris muscle?

4. A fracture of the femoral neck is likely to damage which artery, leading to avascular necrosis?

5. Which of the following arteries is especially at risk during a femoral neck fracture?

6. Which nerve innervates the muscles in the anterior compartment of the thigh?

7. Which nerve roots contribute to the formation of the femoral nerve?

8. Which artery is the major source of blood supply to the thigh?

9. Which muscle crosses both the hip and knee joints and is innervated by the femoral nerve?

10. Which nerve travels with the femoral artery through the adductor canal?

11. Which muscle forms the floor of the femoral triangle and is innervated by the obturator nerve (anterior division)?

12. The sciatic nerve terminates into which two major branches before entering the popliteal fossa?

13. The femoral artery gives off small branches that supply the skin of the upper thigh and lower abdomen. Which is NOT one of these branches?

14. The sartorius muscle is supplied by which nerve?

15. The perforating branches of the profunda femoris artery supply which compartments of the thigh?

16. The adductor magnus muscle is innervated by which nerves?

17. The obturator nerve exits the pelvis through which structure?

18. The femoral nerve terminates as which nerve that accompanies the femoral artery?

19. Which artery wraps around the posterior side of the femur?

20. Which artery supplies the pectineus, obturator externus, adductor muscles, and gracilis within the medial thigh?

21. The pectineus muscle is innervated mainly by which nerve?

22. Injury to the obturator nerve would most likely impair which action?

23. The femoral nerve terminates as which nerve that accompanies the femoral artery through the adductor canal?

24. The largest superficial vein of the thigh, which ascends along the medial side of the limb, is the:

25. Which of the following muscles is part of the hamstring group?

26. Which of the following best describes the action of the hamstring muscles in the posterior compartment?

27. The largest branch of the femoral artery that supplies most of the thigh is called:

28. Which muscle is innervated by the tibial division of the sciatic nerve rather than the obturator nerve, despite being part of the medial compartment?

29. Which of the following muscles is innervated by the obturator nerve?

30. The obturator nerve provides motor supply to which group of thigh muscles?

31. What is the major action of the muscles in the medial compartment of the thigh?

32. Damage to the medial femoral circumflex artery in a femoral neck fracture most likely results in:

33. The sciatic nerve originates from which spinal nerve roots?

34. The lateral femoral circumflex artery supplies which region?

35. Which muscle(s) is/are innervated by the tibial part of the sciatic nerve?

36. The sciatic nerve leaves the pelvis through which foramen?

37. Which muscle acts to flex the leg at the knee joint and medially rotate both the thigh and leg?

38. The obturator nerve primarily supplies muscles in which compartment of the thigh?

39. Which nerve is primarily responsible for the sensory supply to the medial thigh?

40. The deep artery of the thigh arises from which artery?

41. The short head of the biceps femoris is innervated by which nerve?

42. Which muscle originates from the anterior inferior iliac spine and acts to flex the hip and extend the knee?

43. Structures entering the upper thigh anteriorly include all EXCEPT:

44. Damage to which nerve would most likely cause loss of extension at the knee joint?

45. The posterior division of the femoral nerve primarily innervates which muscle group?

46. Which branch of the deep artery of thigh supplies the head and neck of the femur?

47. The medial compartment of the thigh contains all of the following muscles EXCEPT:

48. What is the main action of the adductor longus muscle?

49. The biceps femoris muscle has two heads with different innervations; the long head is innervated by which nerve?

50. Which nerve innervates the muscles of the anterior compartment of the thigh?