Ch 16 nasal cavity Flashcards
What is the base of the nose called where it attaches to the face?
the root (pg. 86)
What is the tip of the nose called?
The apex (pg. 86)
What is the superior part of the nose called that is covered by skin?
The dorsum
Th upper part of the dorsum is called what?
The bridge (pg. 86)
The inferior part of the nose contains two opening called what? 2 Names?
Nares or nostrils (pg. 86)
Laterally the nose consists of skin called what?
the ala (pg. 86)
What muscle in the upper half of the external nose covers the nasal bone?
Procerus (pg. 86)
What muscle covers the cartilage of the lower half of the nose?
Nasalis (pg. 86)
What are the 4 cartilages of the external nose?
- Septal cartilage
- Lateral expansion of septal cartilage
- Greater alar cartilage, which is bent so that it forms the medial and lateral walls of the nares.
- Possibly smaller cartilages (pg. 86)
What is the space called just inside the nose that is bound laterally by and medially by the greater alar cartilage?
The vestibule
The vestibule is limited by a curved elevation that a is a ridge form by the lateral expansion of the septal cartilage?
The limen nasi (pg. 86)
At the limen nasi the skin of the vestibule gives way to what?
the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity (pg. 86)
The part of the nasal cavity just above the limen nasi is called what?
the atrium (pg. 86)
What is the space between the cranial cavity inferiorly and the oral cavity superiorly?
The nasal cavity (pg. 87)
The nasal cavity is divided into two symmetrical chambers, the right and left nasal cavities by what structure?
the median septum (pg. 87)
The nasal nasal cavity is open anteriorly via what?
The nares (pg. 87)
The nasal cavity opens posteriorly to the nasopharynx via what?
The choanae (pg. 87)
The choanae is a bony aperture formed posteriorly by what 4 structures?
- Vomer (medially)
- Palatine bone (inferiorly)
- Medial pterygoid plate of sphenoid (laterally)
- Body of sphenoid (superiorly)
(pg. 87)
What is the structure found when the cartilages of the external nose are removed, the dried skull presents this bony aperture that is bounded by the nasal bones superiorly and the maxilla laterally and inferiorly.
piriform aperture (pg. 87)
What 4 bones is the superior boundary or roof of the nasal cavity formed by (from anterior to posterior)?
- Nasal
- Frontal
- Ethmoid (cribriform plate)
- Sphenoid (body) (pg. 87)
The inferior boundary or the floor of the nasal cavity (which is also form the hard palate) is formed by which bones?
- The maxilla (anteriorly)
2. The palatine bone (posteriorly (pg. 87)
What does the floor of the nasal cavity/hard palate seperate?
The nasal cavity from the oral cavity
What 7 bone is the lateral boundary of the nasal cavity formed by?
- Nasal
- Lacrimal
- Ethmoid
- inferior nasal concha (or turbinate)
- Palatine
- Medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid
- Maxilla