Cranial fossae Flashcards
What are the 3 types of cranial fossae and what bones make up their floors?
Anterior- frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid
middle- sphenoid and temporal
posterior-temporal and occipital
What fibres make up CN I (olfactory) and what foramen does it pass through?
- Special sensory
- cribiform plate
What fibres make up CN II (Optic) and what foramen does it pass through?
- special sensory
- optic canal
What fibres make up CN III (oculomotor) and what foramen does it pass through?
- MIXED- somatic motor and parasympathetic
- superior orbital fissure
What fibres make up CN IV (trochlear) and what foramen does it pass through?
- Somatic motor
- superior orbital fissure
What fibres make up CN V (trigeminal) and what foramen does it pass through?
- MIXED- somatic motor and somatic sensory
- Va- superior orbital fissure
- Vb- retundum
- Vc- ovale
What fibres make up CN VI (abducent) and what foramen does it pass through?
- somatic motor
- superior orbital fissure
What fibres make up CN VII (facial) and what foramen does it pass through?
- MIXED- somatic motor, somatic sensory, special sensory, parasympathetic
- internal acoustic meatus
What fibres make up CN VIII (vestibulochlear) and what foramen does it pass through?
- special sensory
- internal acoustic meatus
What fibres make up CN IX (glossopharyngeal) and what foramen does it pass through?
- MIXED- somatic motor, somatic sensory, special sensory, parasympathetic
- jugular foreman
What fibres make up CN X (vagus) and what foramen does it pass through?
- MIXED- somatic motor, somatic sensory, special sensory, parasympathetic
- jugular foramen
What fibres make up CN XI (spinal accessory) and what foramen does it pass through?
- somatic motor
- jugular foreman
What fibres make up CN XII (hypoglossal) and what foramen does it pass through?
- somatic motor
- hypoglossal canal
Describe the anatomy of CN I
- special sensory (sense of smell)
- origin- forebrain (cerebral hemispheres
- pass through cribriform plate
Describe the anatomy of CN II
-Special sensory ( sense of sight)
-origin- forebrain (diencephelon)
- 2 visual fields :
temporal and nasal
-where two optic nerves cross over is called optic chiasm