01.2 Upper Respiratory Tract - Anatomy

Question 1

What is between the turbinates?

Answer 1

Meatus

Question 2

What is the job of the turbinates?

Answer 2

Slow and mix the flow of air.

Question 3

How is the air made more humid and warm?

Answer 3

Humidified by watery nasal secretions.

Warmed by vessels just below the pseudostratified epithelial layer.

Question 4

What are the four different paranasal sinuses?

Answer 4

Frontal sinuses
Ethmoid sinuses
Sphenoid sinus
Maxillary sinuses

Question 5

Which sinuses are located between the eyes?

Answer 5

Ethmoid sinuses

Question 6

What sinus is located just inferiorly to the pituitary gland?

Answer 6

Sphenoid sinus

Question 7

What sinuses are located superiorly to the eyes?

Answer 7

Frontal sinuses

Question 8

What sinuses are located inferiorly to the eyes?

Answer 8

Maxillary sinuses.

Question 9

What drains into the middle meatus?

Answer 9

Frontal, maxillary and ethmoid

Question 10

What drains into the superior meatus?

Answer 10

Sphenoid sinus.

Question 11

What are the divisions of the pharynx?

Answer 11

Nasopharynx
Oropharynx
Laryngopharynx

Question 12

What connects the middle ear to the nasopharynx?

Answer 12

Eustachian tube

Question 13

What protects the trachea during swallowing?

Answer 13

Epiglottis.

Vocal cords.

Question 14

What is the glottis?

Answer 14

2 vocal cords with an opening between.

Larynx muscles addict and abduct the vocal cords.

Question 15

Which nerve supplies most of the intrinsic laryngeal muscles?

Answer 15

Recurrent laryngeal nerve.

Question 16

What path does the recurrent laryngeal nerve take?

Answer 16

Curves around subclavian artery on right side.

Curves around aortic arch on the left side.

Question 17

What are the bony projections on the lateral sides of the nasal cavity known as?

Answer 17

Conchae/turbinates