ITF Flashcards
The ANTERIOR boundary of Temporal fossa:
a) Temporal Lines
b) Frontal and Zygomatic bone
c) Zygomatic arch
d) Infratemporal crest
b) Frontal and Zygomatic bone
The LATERAL boundary of the Temporal Fossa:
a) Temporal Lines
b) Frontal and Zygomatic bone
c) Zygomatic arch
d) Infratemporal crest
c) Zygomatic arch
The INFERIOR boundary of Temporal Fossa
a) Temporal Lines
b) Frontal and Zygomatic bone
c) Zygomatic arch
d) Infratemporal crest
d) Infratemporal crest
Enumeration
The floor of the Temporal Fossa consist of:
Frontal Bone
Parietal Bone
Temporal Bone
Greater wing of Sphenoid Bone
Enumeration
The roof of the Temporal Fossa consist of
Temporalis Muscle
Temporalis Fascia
Infratemporal fossa has an irregular shaped space and related to the following EXCEPT:
a) Zygomatic Arch
b) Ramus of Mandible
c) Maxilla
d) NOTA
d) NOTA
The LATERAL boundary of ITF
a) lateral pterygoid plate
b) Ramus of mandible
c) Maxilla
d) Tympanic plate
b) Ramus of mandible
The MEDIAL boundary of ITF
a) lateral pterygoid plate
b) Ramus of mandible
c) Maxilla
d) Tympanic plate
a) lateral pterygoid plate
The ANTERIOR boundary of ITF
a) lateral pterygoid plate
b) Ramus of mandible
c) Maxilla
d) Tympanic plate
c) Maxilla
Enumerate the POSTERIOR boundaries of ITF
Tympanic plate
Mastoid Process
Styloid Process
the SUPERIOR boundary of ITF
a) lateral pterygoid plate
b) Ramus of mandible
c) Maxilla
d) greater wing of sphenoid
d) greater wing of sphenoid
The INFERIOR boundary of ITF
a) mandible near the angle
b) Ramus of mandible
c) Maxilla
d) greater wing of sphenoid
a) mandible near the angle
Enumerate the contents of ITF
Muscles, Arteries, Veins and Nerves
What are the muscle of Mastication?
- Temporalis
- Medial Pterygoid
- Masseter
- Lateral Pterygoid
This muscle of mastication lowers the jaw
lateral pterygoid
The Posterior and Superior Boundaries of Temporal fossa:
a) Temporal Lines
b) Frontal and Zygomatic bone
c) Zygomatic arch
d) Infratemporal crest
a) Temporal Lines
Two heads embraces theInferior head of L Pterygoid
Medial Pterygoid
The following are the muscles that consist the ITF EXCEPT:
a) Temporalis Fossa
b) Lateral Pterygoid
c) Medial Pterygoid
d) Masseter
d) Masseter (muscle of mastication)
The branch of ExternalCarotidArtery that arises posterior to the neck of mandible
Maxillary Artery
The maxillary Artery divided by Lateral Pterygoid into:
Mandibular
Pterygoid
Pterygopalatine
This part of Maxillary artery Is deep to tne neck of mandibular condyle.
a) mandibular
b) pterygopalatine
c) pterygoid
a) mandibular
This part of maxillary artery passes superficial ordeep to the lateralpterygoid muscle
a) mandibular
b) pterygopalatine
c) pterygoid
c) pterygoid
This part of the maxillary artery disappears through the pterygomaxillary fissure and enters the pterygopalatine fossa.
a) mandibular
b) pterygopalatine
c) pterygoid
b) pterygopalatine
Enumerate the branches of Mandibular
DAMAI
- Deep auricular
- Anterior Tympanic
- Middle meningeal
- Accessory meningeal
- Inferior alveolar
Enumerate the branches of Pterygoid
MaBu DeeP
- Masseteric
- Buccal
- Deep temporal
- Pterygoid
Enumerate the branches of pterygopalatine
IPAD APS
- Inferior orbital
- posterior/superior Alveolar/ dental
- Descending palatine
- artery of pterygoid canal
- pharyngeal
- sphenopalatine
the vein content of the ITF is partly between:
a) cavernous sinuses
b) temporal and pterygoid muscles
c) pterygopalatine and mandibular
d) NOTA
b) temporal and pterygoid muscles
The largest branch of the Trigemin Nerve (CN V)
Mandibular Nerve
The veins content are connected to the facial vein by the cavernous sinus
the cavernous sinus
it supply the muscles of mastication
mandibular nerve
enumerate the branches of mandibular nerve
BALI
- Buccal nerve
- auriculotemporal nerve
- lingual nerve
- inferior alveolar nerve
Encircles the middle meningeal artery
a) Buccal nerve
b) auriculotemporal nerve
c) lingual nerve
d) inferior alveolar nerve
b) auriculotemporal nerve
It is Sensory to auricle and temple & Parasympathetic secretomotor to the parotid
a) Buccal nerve
b) auriculotemporal nerve
c) lingual nerve
d) inferior alveolar nerve
b) auriculotemporal nerve
Largest branch passes posteriorly
a) Buccal nerve
b) auriculotemporal nerve
c) lingual nerve
d) inferior alveolar nerve
b) auriculotemporal nerve
Runs anteriorly on the buccinator muscle (Piercing but not supplying)
a) Buccal nerve
b) auriculotemporal nerve
c) lingual nerve
d) inferior alveolar nerve
a) Buccal nerve
Supplies the mucous membrane of the cheek and posterior part of the buccal surface of the gingiva
a) Buccal nerve
b) auriculotemporal nerve
c) lingual nerve
d) inferior alveolar nerve
a) Buccal nerve
A branch of the Facial Nerve
Chord Tympani
Carries taste fibers to the anterior 2/3 of the tongue
chorda tympani
Joins the lingual nerve in the IT fossa
Chorda Tympani
Secretomotor to the submandibular and sublingual glands
Chorda Tympani
Otic ganglion is inferior to ______and medial ______.
inferior: foramen ovale
medial: mandibular nerve
The Otic ganglion is posterior to
_______.
medial pterygoid muscle
Otic ganglion has ___________ functions
parasympathetic
