Bony landmarks: palatine bone

Question 1

Horizontal plate

What attaches here?

Answer 1

musculus uvulae and palatopharyngeal muscles

Question 2

Perpendicular plate of palatine bone

Greater palatine canal & foramen

Answer 2

transmits the greater palatine nerve, artery and vein

Question 3

**Lesser palatine canal and foramen

Answer 3

transmits the lesser palatine nerve, artery and vein

Question 4

sphenopalatine foramen

Answer 4

transmits the sphenopalatine artery and vein and the posterior nasal nerve

Question 5

orbital process of palatine bone

pg. 597 of Grant’s

Answer 5