Innervations and reflexes Flashcards
How many nerves are involved with the eye?
8
What are the 8 nerves involved with the eye?
Facial CNVII Abducens CNVI Trochlea CNIV Oculomotor CNIII Short ciliary nerve Optic nerve CNII Trigeminal Ophthalmic nerve CNV1 Sympathetic motor/Long ciliary nerve
What four nerve types are present in the eye?
Autonomic sensory
Autonomic parasympathetic
Autonomic sympathetic
Somatic motor
Which two nerves provide sensory input from the eyes?
Optic nerve CNII
Trigeminal ophthalmic nerve CNV1
What type of stimuli does the optic nerve (CNII) sense?
Light
What type of stimuli does the ophthalmic nerve sense?
Mechanical
What nerve supplies sensory information from the face?
Trigeminal
What to branches of the trigeminal nerve are important for sensing the eye?
V1
V2
What area of the face does the CNV1 nerve cover?
Forehead, upper eyelid, cornea, conjunctiva, bridge of nose.
What area of the face does the CNV2 nerve cover?
Lower eyelid, maxilla, upper lip and side of nose
How is the parasympathetic outflow described?
Craniosacral
What cranial nerves provide the cranial outflow of the parasympathetics?
CNIII
CNVII
CNIX
CNX
Which cranial nerves are parasympathetic?
CNIII
CNVII
CNIX
CNX
Where do parasympathetic fibres synapse from presynaptic to postsynaptic?
Near their target organ
Describe sympathetic axons
Presynaptic sympathetic spinal nerves exit SC between T1 and L2 where they synapse in the sympathetic chain next to the SC. From here postsynaptic splanchnic nerves go to organs and body wall.
What are spinal nerves made up of?
Anterior and posterior rami
Where are the sympathetic chains located?
Parallel to the SC
What do splanchnic nerves do?
Supply the organs
What does splanchnic mean?
Relating to viscera
What happens at the cervical ganglia?
Postsynaptic splanchnic nerves to organs of the head branch off.
Where do the postsynaptic splanchnic nerves to organs of the head branch off?
Cervical ganglia
What are the postsynaptic splanchnic nerves to the organs of the head called?
Internal and external carotid nerves
Where do the internal and external carotid nerves run?
Along the internal and external carotid arteries
What do the internal and external carotid nerves form?
Periarterial sympathetic plexus
What vessel carries the sympathetic nerve input to the orbit?
Ophthalmic artery
What two tissues related to the eye receive sympathetic input?
Levator Palpebrae Superioris
Dilator pupillae
How does the dilator pupillae receive its sympathetic input?
Long ciliary nerve
What flows through the centre of the optic nerve?
Central artery and vein of the retina
Where does the ophthalmic nerve enter the orbit?
Superior orbital fissure
Where does the optic nerve exit the orbit?
Optic canal
What three nerves supply somatic motor innervation to the eye?
Oculomotor CNIII
Trochlea CNIV
Abducens CNVI
What does the abducens CNVI innervate?
Lateral rectus
What does the trochlea CNIV innervate?
Superior oblique
What does the oculomotor CNIII innervate?
Superior, inferior and medial rectus
Inferior oblique
Levator Palpebrae Superioris
Ciliary ganglion
In addition to somatic motor what other fibres does the oculomotor CNIII carry and where to?
Parasympathetic to ciliary ganglion
What arises from the ciliary ganglion?
SHort ciliary nerve
What does the short ciliary nerve innervate?
Ciliary muscles
Sphincter pupillae