Anatomy 2 Flashcards
What is the function of the nose?
- Traps dirt
- Respiration
- Humidification of inspired air
- Olfaction (smell)
What is the nose made up of?
- External nose has a bony framework from which the nasal and septal cartilages extends
- Nasal cavity
- Palate forms the floor
- Nasal bone forms roof
What is the function of the larynx?
- Open valve in respiration
- Partially closed valve whose orifice can be modulated in phonation
- Closed valve, protecting the trachea and bronchial tree during deglutition
What are the three parts of the pharynx?
- Nasopharynx
- Oropharynx
- Laryngopharynx
Where does the trachea begins?
Lower border of the larynx (cricoid cartilage at C6)
Which to bones form the nasal septum?
Vomer and ethmoid
What is the clinical significance of a nasal septum deviation with regards to drainage of paranasal air sinuses?
Sinuses open into meatus (under turbinates), so an obstruction would cause blockage of drainage. This would result in a build up of mucus and fluid in sinuses -> congested and painful
Name five parts to the ethmoid bone
- Cribriform plate
- Crista gali (falx cerebri attachment)
- Central plate
- Superior and inferior turbinates
- Ethmoid air cells
What kind of epithelium forms the respiratory mucosa which Iines most of the nasal cavity?
Ciliated pseudostratified columnar
What epithelium is the roof of the nasal cavity lined by?
Olfactory mucosa
Which cranial nerve, responsible for sense of smell, innervates the olfactory mucosa?
Olfactory nerve (CN I)
What are the projections from the ethmoid bone called?
Turbinates (or concha) and the space beneath them is called a meatus
What is the name given to the space above the superior concha in the nasal cavity?
Sphenoethmoidal recess
What arteries supply the nose?
Branches from ophthalmic artery and branches from ECA
What is the venous drainage of the nose?
Venous plexus
What implications does the rich vascular supply of the nose have?
Make epistaxis more common
What are paranasal sinuses?
Group of airfield spaces that surround the nasal cavity
What are the functions of the paranasal sinuses?
- Lighten skull
* Humidify inspired air
What epithelium lines the paranasal sinuses and why is it important?
Respiratory mucosa
This is significant as can lead to URT infections spreading to them –> sinusitis
What opens into the superior meatus?
Posterior ethmoid air cells
What opens into the sphenoethmoidal recess?
Sphenoid sinus
What opens into the middle meatus?
- Maxillary sinus
- Frontal sinus
- Anterior ethmoidal air cells
- Middle ethmoidal air cells
What opens into the inferior meatus?
Nasolacrimal duct
Name with CN V nerve innervated the frontal, maxillary and the sphenoid air sinuses
- Frontal - V1
- Maxillary - V2
- Ethmoidal - V1
- Sphenoid - V1 + 2
What two important structures lie in the nasopharynx?
- Collection of lymphoid tissue in roof and posterior walls - adenoids or nasopharyngeal tonsils
- Orifice of the Eustachian tube (level with floor of nose) - the posterior lip is prominent sue to underlying cartilage and the salpingopharyngeus muscle
What are the features on the mandible?
- Condyloid process
- Coronoid process
- Mandibular foramen
- Mandibular angle
- Mental foramen
- Mylohyoid line
- Mental tubercle
What anatomical changes have occurs to edentulous mandibles due to bone resorption?
- Loss of alveolar sockets
- Mental foramen lies closer to superior edge
- Absence of teeth
- Thinning of ramps and body of mandible
Name the number of different types of deciduous teeth
- Incisor - 8
- Molar - 8
- Canines - 4
Name the number of different types of permanent teeth
- Incisor - 8
- Canines - 4
- Molar - 8
- Premolar - 12
What type of joint is the temporomandibular joint?
Modified hinge joint - bicondylar articulation
What are the two articular processes that form the temporomandibular joint?
Mandibular fossa of the temporal bone and the condyloid process of the mandible
Name 5 movements that occur at the temperomandibular joint
- Elevation
- Depression
- Protrusion
- Retraction
- Side to side
Name the muscles of mastication
- Masseter
- Medial pterygoid
- Lateral pterygoid
- Temporalis
What are the bony attachments of the temporalis muscle?
- Temporal fossa
* Ramus and coronoid process of mandible