Head and Neck: Oral and Nasal Cavities Flashcards
What seprates nasal cavity from anterior cranial fossa?
Cribriform plate of ethmoid bone
Which air sinus sits lateral to the upper half of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity?
Ethmoidal air sinus
What space is lateral to ethmoid air sinus?
The medial wall of the orbit
Lateral to lower half of lateral nasal wall?
Maxillary air sinus
What space sits below the floor of the nasal cavity?
Oral cavity
What structure separates the nasal from oral cavity?
Hard palate
Nasal cavity is continuous with what structure posteriorly?
Nasopharynx
What structures contribute to the roof of the nasal cavity?
Nasal cartilage Nasal bones Nasal spine of frontal bone Cribriform plate of ethmoid bone Inf./Ant. portions of body of sphenoid bone
Which structures contribute to floor of nasal cavity?
Palatine processes of maxilla
Horizontal plates of palatine bones
Structures of medial wall of nasal cavity? (3)
Septal cartilage
Vomer
Perpendicular (vertical) plate of ethmoid bone
Skeletal structures of lateral wall of nasal cavity (3)?
Maxilla
Ethmoid bone - sup. and middle conchae
Inferior concha
Sphenoethmoidal recess
located directly posterior to superior concha and anterior to sphenoid bone
Meatus
In nasal cavity all meatuses are found just inferior to concha
Drainage of sphenoid sinus?
Sphenoethmoidal recess
Drainage of posterior ethmoidal sinuses?
Superior meatus
Drainage of anterior ethmoidal sinus?
Hiatus semilunaris in middle meatus
Drainage of frontal sinus?
Hiatus semilunaris in middle meatus
Drainage of maxillary sinsus?
Hiatus semilunaris in middle meatus
Hiatus semilunaris
found in middle meatus; drains the anterior ethmoidal, maxillary and frontal sinus
Drainage of middle ethmoidal sinus?
Bulla ethmoidalis
Bulla ethmoidalis
Swelling on superior border of hiatus semilunaris
Drainage of nasolacrimal duct?
Inferior meatus
Anterior and Posterior ethmoidal arteries
Come off of opthalmic artery - ICA
Lateral nasal branches of facial artery
Branches of ECA
Greater palatine artery
Branch off of ECA
Sphenopalatine artery
terminal branch of maxillary artery ECA
Frontal sinus
located between inner and outer tables of frontal bone; drains to semilunar hiatus in middle meatus
Ethmoidal sinus = ethmoidal air cells
3 regions
Anterior - drain into semilunar hiatus in middle meatus
Middle - ethmoidal bulla
Posterior - superior meatus
Sphenoidal sinus
drains into sphenoethmoidal recess
Sphenoidal sinus is close to what structures?
Optic nerves and chiasm
Pituitary gland
ICA
Cavernous sinus
Maxillary sinus medial wall
Shared with nasal cavity
Maxillary sinus roof
Floor of orbit