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Head: Oral Cavity, Palate, and Tongue Flashcards

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2 parts of the oral cavity

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  • Oral cavity proper

- Oral vestibule: between teeth/gums and lips/cheek

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Oral cavity contains

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  • Teeth
  • Gingivae
  • Tongue
  • Palate: roof of oral cavity
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Lips and cheeks are covered internally/externally by

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  • Skin externally

- Mucous membrane internally

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Lips contain

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  • Orbicularis oris
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Cheeks contain

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  • Buccinators
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Lips are

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  • Transition between external skin and inner oral mucosa
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Blood supply of the lips

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  • Labial vessels
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Cutaneous nerve supply of the lips

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  • Upper lip is V2 (infraorbital nerve)

- Lower lip is V3 (mental nerve)

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Blood supply of cheeks

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  • Buccal branch of maxillary
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Nerve supply of cheeks

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  • Buccal nerve from V3
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Oral surface of the cheeks contains

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  • Buccal glands (salivary)
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Cheeks contain buccal fat pad between

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  • Skin and buccinators muscle
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Palate is formed by

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  • Hard and soft palate
  • Separates oral cavity from nasal cavity and nasopharynx
  • Roof of oral, floor of nasal
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Hard palate (anterior 2/3)

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  • Concave, bony skeleton
  • Palatine process of maxilla
  • Horizontal plate of palatine bone
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Openings of the palate (3)

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  • Incisive foramen and fossa
  • Greater palatine foramen
  • Lesser palatine foramen
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Incisive foramen and fossa contains

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  • Nasopalatine nerve

- Sphenopalatine artery

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Greater palatine foramen contains

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  • Greater palatine nerve and vessels
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Lesser palatine foramen contains

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  • Lesser palatine nerve and vessels
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Soft palate (continuous with pharynx) contains/function

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  • Aponeurosis
  • Uvula
  • Tenses and elevates during swallowing
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Soft palate aponeurosis attaches to

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  • Posterior hard palate
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Uvula

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  • Cone shaped free margin of soft palate
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Tensing and elevating during swallowing closes the

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  • Isthmus of pharynx
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Continuity of soft palate with pharynx forms

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  • Palatoglossal arches

- Palatopharyngeal arches

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Oropharyngeal Isthmus (Isthmus of Fauces) is between

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  • Oral cavity

- Oropharynx

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Oropharyngeal Isthmus (Isthmus of Fauces) is bound by

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  • Soft palate
  • Tongue
  • Pillars of the fauces (the arches)
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Oropharyngeal Isthmus (Isthmus of Fauces) contains

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  • Palatine salivary glands
  • Transverse palatine folds (rugae)
  • Palatine raphe
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Palatine raphe

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  • Site of embryonic fusion of 2 halves of the palate
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Muscle of the soft palate functions

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  • Elevate, depress, and tense soft palate
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All muscles of the soft palate (except 1) are innervated by

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  • Vagus nerve (via pharyngeal plexus)
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Tensor veli palatini extends from

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  • Scaphoid fossa and pharyngotympanic tube cartilage

- To palatine aponeurosis

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Tensor veli palatini innervation

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  • Mandibular nerve
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Tensor veli palatini function

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  • Tenses soft palate

- Opens Eustachian tube

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Levator veli palatini extends from

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  • Cartilage of pharyngotympanic and temporal bone (petrous bone)
  • Topalatine aponeurosis
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Levator veli palatini function

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  • Elevates soft palate
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Palatoglossus function

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  • Elevates posterior tongue

- Depresses soft palate

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Palatopharyngeus function

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  • Elevates pharynx

- Tenses and depresses palate

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Musculus uvulae function

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  • Shortens and elevates uvula
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Blood supply of the palate (4)

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  • Maxillary artery
  • Descending palatine artery
  • Lesser/greater palatine artery
  • Sphenopalatine artery
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Descending palatine artery passes through

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  • Greater palatine canal
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Nerve supply of the palate

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  • Nasopalatine nerve

- Greater/lesser palatine nerves

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General sensory of the palate provided by

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  • Branches of maxillary nerve (V2)
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Nasopalatine nerve enters the nasal cavity by passing through the

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  • Sphenopalatine foramen
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Nasopalatine nerve enters cavity and travels along

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  • Travels along nasal septum

- Passes through incisive canal

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Nasopalatine nerve exits cavity through

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  • Exits incisive canal through incisive foramen

- Inferior aspect of palate

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Greater and lesser palatine nerves pathway

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  • Greater palatine canal

- Pass through greater/lesser palatine foramina to palate

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Taste and parasympathetic to palatine glands

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  • Facial nerve

- Follow trigeminal branches

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Tongue is a muscular organ involved in

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  • Speech
  • Chewing
  • Swallowing
  • Sensation
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Root of the tongue is the inferior/posterior portion attached to

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  • Mandible
  • Hyoid bone
  • Tongue muscles
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Body of the tongue

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  • Anterior 2/3
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Apex of the tongue

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  • Tip of the tongue
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Dorsum of the tongue

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  • Superior surface
  • Terminal sulcus
  • Foramen cecum
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Terminal sulcus of dorsum of tongue separates

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  • Anterior 2/3 (oral or presulcal part) from posterior 1/3 (pharyngeal or postsulcal part)
53
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Lingual papillae location

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  • Dorsal anterior 2/3 of tongue
54
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Types of lingual papillae

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  • Vallate
  • Foliate
  • Fungiform
  • Filiform
55
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Vallate papillae

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  • Anterior to terminal sulcus

- Contain taste buds

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Foliate papillae

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  • Post/lateral tongue

- Contain taste buds

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Fungiform papillae

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  • Found on dorsum (most numerous at apex)

- Contain taste buds

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Filiform papillae

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  • Numerous
  • Mechanical/sensory function
  • No taste buds
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Posterior 1/3 of tongue

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  • Anterior wall of oropharynx
  • No lingual papillae, does have taste buds
  • Lingual tonsil
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Tongue muscles function

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  • Do not act in isolation
  • Lingual septum separates halves
  • Extrinsic muscles
  • Intrinsic muscles
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Extrinsic tongue muscles

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  • Position the tongue
  • Alter shape
  • Originate outside of the tongue
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Intrinsic tongue muscles

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  • Alter the shape

- Originate within the tongue

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Muscles of the tongue

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  • Genioglossus
  • Hyoglossus
  • Styloglossus
  • Palatoglossus
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Genioglossus attachments

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  • Superior mental spine to tongue (also hyoid bone)
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Genioglossus functions

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  • Proturudes
  • Depresses central portion
  • Lateral deviation
66
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Hyoglossus attachments

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  • Body of tongue

- Greater horn of hyoid to lateral tongue

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Hyoglossus functions

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  • Depresses sides

- Retracts tongue

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Styloglossus attachments

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  • Styloid process to sides of posterior tongue
69
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Styloglossus functions

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  • Retracts and elevates sides
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Palatoglossus attachments

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  • Palatine aponeurosis to posterolateral tongue
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Palatoglossus functions

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  • Elevates posterior tongue

- Depresses soft palate

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Motor innervation to tongue

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  • Palatoglossus innervated by vagus (pharyngeal plexus)

- All the rest innervated by hypoglossal nerve

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Damage to hypoglossal nerve (trauma, malignancy) causes

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  • Paralysis and eventual atrophy
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Nerve injury causes

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  • Tongue deviation to the paralyzed side during tongue protrusion
75
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Anterior 2/3 tongue sensory innervation

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  • General sensation: CN V3, lingual nerve

- Special sensation (taste): CN VII, chorda tympani

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Posterior 1/3 including vallate papilla

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  • General and special sensation: CN IX
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Vagus can supply some taste and general sensation to

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  • Posterior tongue and epiglottis
78
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Arterial supply to tongue

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  • Lingual artery
  • Branch from ECA
  • Passes deep to hyoglossus (medial to hyoglossus)
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Branches from lingual artery

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  • Dorsal lingual
  • Deep lingual
  • Sublingual
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Dorsal lingual supplies

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Deep lingual supplies

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Sublingual supplies

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  • Mouth floor

- Sublingual glands

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Venous supply of tongue

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  • Deep Lingual
  • Sublingual
  • Dorsal Lingual
84
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All tongue veins drain directly to

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  • IJV directly or to lingual vein
85
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Sublingual drug administration

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  • Direct, quick absorption
  • Excellent venous drainage
  • Bypasses GI tract and liver
86
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All lymph from tongue eventually reaches

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  • Deep cervical nodes
87
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Root of tongue lymph drainage

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  • Superior deep cervical nodes bilaterally
88
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Medial body of tongue lymph drainage

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  • Inferior deep cervical nodes bilaterally
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Lateral body of tongue lymph drainage

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  • Ipsilateral submandibular nodes
90
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Apex and frenulum of tongue lymph drainage

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  • Submental nodes
91
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Salivary glands

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  • Moisten mouth

- Beginning of digestion

92
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Glands of the tongue

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  • Salivary
  • Parotid
  • Submandibular
  • Sublingual
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Submandibular gland

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  • Superficial and deep parts
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Submandibular duct (Whartons duct)

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  • Passes between mylohyoid and hyoglossus
  • Lingual nerve is lateral, then loops beneath the duct (lateral, inferior, medial)
  • Runs along floor of mouth to sublingual caruncle near frenulum
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Sublingual glands

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  • Located floor of the mouth between mandible and genioglossus
  • Multiple duct openings
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Sublingual gland arterial supply

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  • Sublingual

- Submental

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Sublingual gland innervation

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  • CN VII (secretomotor)
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Submandibular gland arterial supply

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  • Submental (facial)
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Submandibular gland innervation

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  • CN VII (secretomotor)
100
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Minor salivary glands

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  • Buccal
  • Palatal
  • Labial
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Parasympathetic innervation to submandibular and sublingual glands presynaptics

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  • Originate in pons
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Pathway of parasympathetics to submandibular/sublingual glands

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  • Presynaptics originate in pons
  • Travel in facial nerve (nervus intermedius)
  • Follow chorda tympani into infratemporal fossa
  • Chorda tympani joins with lingual nerve (V3)
  • Presynaptics synapse in submandibular ganglion
  • Postsynaptics innervate submandibular gland
  • Some jump back on lingual to innervate sublingual gland
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Presynaptics from pons travel in

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  • Facial nerve (nervus intermedius)
104
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From the facial nerve, nerves follow

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  • Chorda tympani into infratemporal fossa
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Chorda tympani joins with

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  • Lingual nerve (V3)
106
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Presynaptics synapse in

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  • Submandibular ganglion
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Postsynaptics innervate

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  • Submandibular gland

- Some jump back on lingual

108
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Nerves that jump back onto lingual innervate

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  • Sublingual gland
109
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Sympathetics of glands

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  • Postsynaptic nerve fibers from superior cervical ganglia

- Travel in periarterial plexus along ECA –> facial and lingual arteries to reach the gland

110
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Taste pathway (anterior 2/3 of tongue)

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  • Tongue
  • Lingual
  • Chorda tympani
  • Nervus intermedius
  • Brainstem
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submandibular ganglion is NOT involved in

112
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Geniculate ganglion contains

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  • Cell bodies for CN VII neurons for taste and sensation
113
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Chorda tympani contains

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  • Presynaptic parasympathetics

- Taste afferents

114
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Lingual nerve before chorda tympani joins

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  • General somatic afferents from oral cavity (including anterior 2/3 of tongue)
115
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Lingual nerve BEFORE submandibular ganglion, after chorda tympani joins

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  • Presynaptic parasympathetics
  • Taste afferents
  • General sensory (touch, pain), V3
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Lingual nerve AFTER submandibular ganglion, after chorda tympani

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  • Postsynaptic parasympathetics to sublingual gland
  • Taste afferents
  • General sensory (touch, pain), V3
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Lingual and hypoglossal nerves pass

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  • Lateral to the hyoglossus muscle
118
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Lingual artery passes

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