Infratemporal Fossa Flashcards
What attaches to the lingula?
Sphenomandibular ligament
What attaches to the coronoid process?
- Temporalis muscle
- Masseter muscle
What articulates with the head of the mandible?
Temporal bone
What attaches to the pterygoid fovea?
Lateral pterygoid muscle
What attaches to the ramus of the mandible?
- Masseter muscle
- Medial pterygoid muscle
What attaches to the angle of the mandible?
- Stylomandibular ligament
- Masseter muscle
- Medial pterygoid muscle
Contents of the infratemporal fossa
- Muscles of mastication
- Maxillary artery and branches
- Pterygoid plexus of veins
- CN V3
- Chorda tympani
- Otic ganglion and lesser petrosal nerve
- Medial aspect of the TMJ
- Sphenomandibular ligament
- Stylomandibular ligament
What goes through the pterygomaxillary fissure?
- Maxillary artery
- Posterior superior alveolar nerve, vein, and artery
What goes through the posterior superior alveolar foramina?
Posterior superior alveolar nerve, artery, and vein
What goes through the foramen ovale?
- CN V3
- Acessory meningeal artery
- Lesser petrosal nerve
What goes through the spinosum foramen?
- Middle meningeal artery
- Meningeal nerve
What goes through the petrotympanic fissure?
- Chordia tympani
- Anterior tympanic artery
Masseter origin
Zygomatic arch
Masseter insertion
Lateral ramus and angle of the mandible
Masseter innervation
Masseteric nerve, CN V3 branch
Masseter action
- Elevate
- Protrusion
- Retrusion
Temporalis origin
- Temporal lines
- Temporal fossa
Temporalis insertion
- Coronoid process
- Anterior ramus of mandible
Temporalis innervation
Anterior and posterior deep temporal nerves, branches of CN V3
Lateral pterygoid muscle origin, superior head
- Infratemporal surface of greater wing of sphenoid
- Infratemporal ridge
Lateral pterygoid muscle origin, inferior head
Lateral surface of lateral pterygoid plate
Lateral pterygoid muscle insertion
- Pterygoid fovea on neck of the mandible
- Articular disk of the TMJ
Lateral pterygoid innervation
Lateral pterygoid nerve, CN V3 branch
Lateral pterygoid action
- Depression of mandible
- Protrusion of mandible
- Lateral deviation of mandible
Medial pterygoid muscle origin, superficial head
- Maxillary tuberosity
- Pyramidal process of palatine
Medial pterygoid muscle origin, deep head
- Medial surface of lateral pterygoid plate
- Pyramidal process of palatine
Medial pterygoid muscle insertion
- Medial surface of ramus
- Angle of the mandible
Medial pterygoid muscle innervation
Medial pterygoid nerve, CN V3 branch
Medial pterygoid muscle action
- Elevate mandible
- Protrusion