Lecture 12- Nasal and Oral Cavities Flashcards
What structure separates the anterior cranial fossa above the nasal cavity?
Cribiform plate of the ethmoid bone
What is just lateral to the upper half of the nasal cavity? lower half?
upper- ethmoid air sinus
lower- maxillary air sinus
What structure separates the nasal cavity from the oral cavity below?
hard palate (palatine process of the maxilla and horizontal plates of the palatine bone)
What are the 3 components of the nasal septum?
- Septal cartilage
- Perpendicular (vertical) plate of the ethmoid bone
- Vomer
What bone provides the superior and middle concha? inferior concha?
Superior and middle concha are part of the ethmoid bone
Inferior concha is its own bone
What are the four passages of the nasal cavity created by the superior, middle and inferior nasal concha (turbinates)?
- Sphenoethmoidal reces
- Superior meatus
- Middle meatus
- Inferior meatus
Where does the sphenoid sinus drain?
into the sphenoethmoidal recess
What drains into the hiatus semilunaris? Where is it located?
- found in middle meatus
- drains anterior ethmoidal sinus, frontal and maxillary sinuses
Where do the maxillary sinuses drain?
into the hiatus semilunaris
Where is the bulla ethmoidalis? What does it drain?
- swelling on the superior border of the hiatus semilunaris
- drains middle ethmoidal sinuses
Where does the nasolacrimal duct drain?
into the inferior meatus of the nasal cavity
Name 5 arterial branches that supply to nasal cavity.
- Anterior and posterior ethmoidal arteries
- lateral nasal branches of the facial artery
- greater palatine artery
- sphenopalatine artery
What 4 bones house paranasal sinuses?
Frontal
Ethmoid
Sphenoid
Maxilla
Where do the frontal sinuses drain?
semilunar hiatus (hiatus semilunaris) in the middle nasal meatus
How do the anterior ethmoidal cells drain into the middle nasal meatus?
via the frontonasal duct
How do the middle ethmoidal cells drain into the middle meatus?
through the ethmoidal bulla on the superior border of the semilunar hiatus
How do the posterior ethmoidal cells drain?
directly into the superior meatus
How do the sphenoid sinuses drain?
into the sphenoethmoidal recess
What does the roof of the maxillary sinus form?
floor of the orbit
What does the medial wall of the maxillary sinus form?
lateral wall of the nasal cavity
What does the floor of the maxillary sinus form?
the alveolar part of the maxilla of the oral cavity
Where do the maxillary sinuses drain?
into the maxillary ostium then into the middle nasal meatus through the semilunar hiatus
What complication can occur during removal of palatal teeth?
displacement of root fragment into the maxillary sinus