Head: Orbit Flashcards
Bones of the BASE of the Orbit
- Orbital margin (orbital opening)
Bones of the APEX of the Orbit
- At the optic canal (lesser wing of sphenoid)
Bones of the SUPERIOR part of the Orbit
- Orbital part of frontal bone
MEDIAL bones of the Orbit
- Orbital plate of ethmoid
- Lacrimal
- Frontal process of maxilla
- Lacrimal groove
- Fossa
INFERIOR bones of the Orbit
- Zygomatic
- Maxilla
LATERAL bones of the Orbit
- Frontal process of zygomatic bone
- Greater wing of sphenoid
Preorbita
- Periosteum that lines the orbit
Orbit and Orbital region content
- Obicularis oculi
- Eyelids
- Lacrimal apparatus
- Eyeball
- Extraocular muscles and their innervation
- Optic nerve
- Ophthalmic nerve (V1) branches
- Opthlamic veins
- Ciliary ganglion
- Retrobulbar fat
Eyelids (protect the eye)
- Skin on the outside
- Conjunctiva lines the inside
Content of the eyelids
- Orbicularis oculi, palpebral part (CN VII)
- Tarsal plate (tarsus)
Eyelid is the insertion of
- Levator palpebrae superioris (CN III innervation)
- Superior tarsal muscle (sympathetic innervation) onto the upper eyelid
A ptosis can result from
- Lesion of oculomotor nerve or sympathetics to the head
Cornea
- Transparent layer that covers iris and pupil
- Avascular
- Continuous with sclera (white of the eye)
Corneal reflex
- Touching elicits blink response
Sensory innervation of upper eyelid and cornea
- Ophthalmic division of trigeminal nerve
Iris
- Colored diaphragm
- Surrounds pupil
Orbital Septum
- Membranous sheet
- Attaches to orbital rim
- Separates orbit from periorbital region
Lacrimal gland
- Produces tears that are secreted through the lacrimal ducts
- Tears wash across eye and drain into the nasolacrimal duct
- Empties into inferior nasal meatus in the nasal cavity
Presynaptic parasympathetics of the Lacrimal gland originate
- In the pons
Presynaptic parasympathetics originate in the pons travel in
- Facial nerve (nervus intermedius)
- Through pterygoid canal
- Zygomatic and lacrimal nerves
Presynaptic parasympatehtics traveling in Facial nerve
- Greater petrosal nerve
- Greater petrosal joins deep petrosal forming nerve of pterygoid canal
Presynaptic parasympathetics traveling through Pterygoid canal
- Enter pterygopalatine fossa
- Synapse on postsynaptics in pterygopalatine ganglion
Presynaptic parasympathetics traveling in Zygomatic and Lacrimal nerves
- Synapse on the lacrimal gland
Sympathetic innervation of Lacrimal gland
- Travel in ICA periarterial plexus
Postysynaptic sympathetics of Lacrimal gland originate
- Originate in superior cervical ganglion
Deep Petrosal nerve (Lacrimal sympathetics) is derived from
- The ICA periarterial plexus
- Joins greater petrosal nerve to form nerve to pterygoid canal
Extra-Ocular muscles
- Muscles that move the eyeballs and eyelids
Superior Oblique innervation
- Trochlear nerve (CN IV)
Lateral Rectus innervation
- Abducens nerve (CN VI)
Extra-Ocular muscles innervated by oculomotor nerve (CN III)
- Inferior rectus
- Medial rectus
- Inferior oblique
- Superior rectus
- Levator palpebrae superioris