Head and Neck anatomy Flashcards
Name the bones of the skull
Frontal Parietal Temporal Spehnoid Occipital zygomatic maxillary
Name the sutures of the skill
Saggital suture
Coronal suture
Labdoid suture
Frontal suture
What is the pterion a junction of
frontal
parietal
sphenoid
temporal bones
What artery overlies the pterion?
Middle meningeal artery
What are the parts of the sphenoid bone
lesser wing of sphenoid Greater wing of sphenoid Lateral pterygoid plate Medial pterygoid plate Anterior clinoid process
Anterior cranial fossa contents?
Foramen caecum (emissary veins from nose to superior saggital sinus)
Cribriform plate (transmits olfactory nerves)
Middle cranial fossa contents (foramina)
Optic canals Foramen rotundum Foramen ovale Foramen spinosum Foramen lacerum
Foramen rotundum contents?
V2 (maxillary branch of trigeminal nerve)
Foramen Ovale contents?
All the Ms:
Mandibular nerve
Motor root of trigeminal nerve
Accessory meningeal artery
Foramen spinosum
More Ms - Meningeal:
Middle meningeal artery
Middle meningeal vein
Meningeal branch of mandibular vein
Posterior cranial fossa foramina?
Internal acoustic meatus
Jugular foramen
Hypoglossal canal
Foramen magnum
Name the 4 sinuses
frontal
ethmoid
sphenoidal
maxillary sinus
What is the lymph drainage of the frontal and maxillary sinuses
submandibular lymph nodes
What is the lymph drainage of the ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses
Retropharyngeal space
Blood supply to frontal
ethmoid
maxilary and sphenoid sinuses
frontal –> supraorbital
ethmoid –> ethmoid
maxilary –> infraorbital
sphenoid sinuses –> posterior ethmoid