Anatomy Flashcards
What is the somatic sensory nerve supply to the nasal cavities?
Trigeminal nerve CNV
Anterosuperiorly - opthalmic CNV1
Posteroinferiorly - maxillary CNV2
What is the blood supply of the nasal cavities?
Opthalmic
Facial
Maxillary arteries
What does the opthalmic artery branch into?
Anterior and posterior ethmoidal
What does the facial artery branch into?
Labial artery
What does the labial artery branch into?
On lateral side of nose - lateral nasal branch
On medial side (septum) - septal branch of superior labial
What does the maxillary artery branch into?
Sphenopalantine and greater palantine arteries
What arteries make up kiesselbach’s area?
Labial
Ethmoidal
Greater palantine
Sphenopalatine
Name the paranasal sinuses
2x frontal
2x maxillary
2x ethmoidal air cells
1/2x sphenoid
Where do the frontal sinuses drain?
Middle meatus
Where do the maxillary sinuses drain?
Middle meatus
Where do the ethmoidal air cells drain?
Superior and middle meatus
Where do the sphenoidal sinuses drain?
Sphenoethmoidal recess
Where does the nasolacrimal duct drain?
Inferior meatus
What foraminae does CNI go through?
Cribiform plate of ethmoid
What foraminae does CNII go through?
Optic canal
What foraminae does CNIII go through?
Superior orbital fissure
What foraminae does CNIV go through?
Superior orbital fissure
What foraminae does CNV1 go through?
Superior orbital fissure
What foraminae does CNV2 go through?
Foramen rotundum
What foraminae does CNV3 go through?
Foramen ovale
What foraminae does CNVI go through?
Superior orbital fissure
What foraminae does CNVII go through?
Internal acoustic meatus (then stylomastoid foramen)
What foraminae does CNVIII go through?
Internal acoustic meatus
What foraminae does CNIX go through?
Jugular foramen
What foraminae does CNX go through?
Jugular foramen