AUT Head and Neck Anatomy DR Week 6-8 Flashcards
What are the bones in the calvarium?
Frontal Bone
Parietal Bones
Occipital Bones
What other osteological features does the calvarium have?
Coronal Suture
Sagittal Suture
Lambdoid Suture
What is the name for the point at which the Coronal and Sagittal suture meet anteriorly called?
What else lies here in infancy?
Bregma
Anterior Fontanelle
What is the name for the point at which the Sagittal and Lambdoid sutures meet posteriorly?
What else lies here in infancy?
Lambda
Posterior Fontanelle
What are the osteological features of the frontal bone?
Superciliary Arches
Supraorbital Margin
Glabella
What are the osteological features of the Zygomatic Bone?
Temporal process of zygomatic bone
What are the osteological features of the Temporal Bone?
Zygomatic process of temporal bone Superior and Inferior Temporal Lines External Acoustic Meatus Mastoid Process Styloid Process Squamous Suture
What are the osteological features of the maxilla?
Hard palate
Infraorbital Foramina
What exits the infraorbital foramina?
The Infraorbital Nerve, a branch of the Maxillary division of the Trigeminal Nerve (Vb).
What are the osteological features of the occipital bone?
Occipital condyles
External occipital protuberance
Superior nuchal line
Where the the region known as the pterion?
What runs directly behind it?
This is where the parietal, frontal, temporal, and sphenoid bones meet (lateral aspect of the skull).
The middle meningeal artery runs behind the pterion.
What bones make up the orbit?
Frontal, Greater wing of the sphenoid bone, ethmoid bone, lacrimal bone, zygomatic bone, maxilla (NOTE: palatine bone also contributes to the formation of the orbit - between maxilla and ethmoid).
What openings are within the orbit?
Optic Canal
Superior Orbital Fissure
Inferior Orbital Fissure
What is the Nasion?
The intersection between the frontal bone and the two nasal bones. Just inferior to the glabella. Depressed area between the eyes.
What is the Inion?
Most prominent part of the external occipital protuberance
What runs through the supraorbital notch?
The supraorbital nerve from the ophthalmic division of the Trigeminal Nerv (Va)
Where are the superciliary arches?
Part of the frontal bone. It forms the separation between the forehead portion itself (the squama frontalis) and the roof of the eye sockets (the pars orbitalis). Normally, in humans, the ridges arch over each eye = mechanical protection.
What are the layers of the Scalp?
S - Skin C - Connective Tissue A - Aponeruosis (of Occipitofrontalis) L - Loose Areolar Connective Tissue P - Pericranium (periosteum)
Then BONE, Dura, Arachnoid and Pia.
From which blood vessel does the middle meningeal artery arise?
Maxillary artery from the External Carotid Artery. (Maxillary artery is a terminal branch of the Ext.Carotid.
Discuss the middle meningeal artery course.
Branches off the Maxillary Artery in the Infratemporal Fossa, runs through Foramen Spinosum into the Middle Cranial Fossa and supplies the Dura Mater and the Calvarium.
Where does the middle meningeal artery enter the base of the skull?
Through the Foramen Spinosum
What are the branches of the middle meningeal artery?
Anterior, Posterior, (Superior Tympanic Artery)
What are the three meningeal layers?
Dura Mater
Arachnoid Mater
Pia Mater
Which layer of the meninges is avascular?
Arachnoid Mater
What are the features of the Dura Mater? (Dural infoldings)
Falx Cerebri
Tentorium Cerebelli
Falx Cerebelli
Diaphragma Sellae
What are the layers of the Dura Mater?
Superficial Layer - Endocranium
Deep Layer - Meningeal Layer
Where is the Falx Cerebri?
Separates the two cerebral hemispheres of the brain, located in the longitudinal cerebral fissure between the hemispheres.
Where is the Tentorium Cerebelli?
Exists between and separates the cerebellum and brainstem from the occipital lobes of the cerebrum
Where is the Falx Cerebelli?
A vertical dural infolding that lies inferior to the cerebellar tentorium in the posterior part of the posterior cranial fossa. It partially separates the cerebellar hemispheres.
Where is the Diaphragma Sellae?
Lies over the Hypophyseal Fossa.
The sellar diaphragm is the smallest dural infolding and is a circular sheet of dura that is suspended between the clinoid processes, forming a partial roof over the hypophysial fossa. The sellar diaphgram covers the pituitary gland in this fossa and has an aperture for passage of the infundibulum (pituitary stalk) and hypophysial veins.
The crista galli is in which cranial fossa?
Anterior cranial fossa
What is the crista galli?
A thick, median ridge of bone posterior to the foramen caecum which projects superiorly from the ethmoid bone