Anatomy: The Nose

Question 1

What type of cartilage is in the nose

Answer 1

hyaline

Question 2

What can result from disruption of the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone

Answer 2

infection spreading from the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses into the anterior cranial fossa

Question 3

What time of cartilage is the nasal septum

Answer 3

hyaline

Question 4

Which wall of the nasal cavity are the concha located

Answer 4

lateral wall

Question 5

Why must adrenaline containing anaesthetics not be used near the nasal cartilages

Answer 5

they are hyaline cartilages which is avascular- depends on diffusion of nutrients

Question 6

What supplies special sensory to the nasal cavity

Answer 6

CN1

Question 7

What supplies somatic sensory to the nasal cavity

Answer 7

CN v1 and V2

Question 8

Name the artery that supplies the tonguw

Answer 8

the lingual artery

Question 9

What artery supplies the face from its deep aspect

Answer 9

the maxillary

Question 10

What artery supplies the face superficially

Answer 10

the facial artery

Question 11

What arteries have nasal branches to supply the nasal cavity

Answer 11

the ophthalmic artery
the maxillary artery
the facial artery

Question 12

What is kiesselback’s area

Answer 12

the arterial anastomosis of the nasal septum

Question 13

What is epistaxis

Answer 13

nosebleeds

Question 14

What forms the nasal septum

Answer 14

the perpidicular plate of the ethmoid bone
the vomer
the septal cartilages

Question 15

What is respiratory epithelium

Answer 15

pseudostratified columnar with cilia and goblet cells

Question 16

Name the paranasal sinuses

Answer 16

the frontal, maxillary, ethmoidal, sphenoidal

Question 17

What lines the paranasal sinuses

Answer 17

mucous secreting respiratoy mucosa

Question 18

Where does mucous from the sphenoidal sinus drain

Answer 18

anteriorly into the sphenoethmoidal recess

Question 19

Where does mucous from the ethmoidal air cells drain

Answer 19

the superior and middle meatuses

Question 20

Where does mucous fom the frontal sinuses drain

Answer 20

the middle meatus

Question 21

Where does mucous from the antrums drain

Answer 21

the middle meatuss

Question 22

What drains into the inferior meatus

Answer 22

the tears from the nasolacrimal duct

Question 23

What supplies the sensory nerve supply to the paranasal sinuses

Answer 23

V1 and V2

Question 24

Where can pain from maxillary sinusitis refer to

Answer 24

the teeth