Lecture 3 Flashcards
What is the purpose of velopharyngeal valving?
1) Ventilation of the middle ear
2) Regulation of oral-nasal airflow
3) Prevention of nasal regurgitation
4) Prevent pre-deglutative aspiration
5) Contributes to bolus propulsion during swallowing
6) Oral-nasal balance for speech articulation
When we do laryngoscopy we put the scope through the inferior nasal meatus, to see velopharyngeal action we go through the ____________
middle nasal meatus
The hard palate begins at the end of the _______ and continues to the _______
alveolar ridge
Velum
The hard palate is made up of the ________ bone and the _________ bone
palatine process of the maxillary bone
Horizontal part of the palatine bone
The _______ primary function is to open the eustachian tube. It’s secondary function is the lateral stretch of the velum.
tensor veli palatini
The ____ is the most important elevator of the velum (pulls up and back)
Levator veli palatini
The ____ forms the anterior faucial pillar. It lowers the soft palate when the tongue is stable.
Palatoglossus
The ____ forms the posterior faucial pillar. It narrows the nasopharynx and lowers the soft palate.
Palatopharyngeus
The _____ wraps around posteriorly and constricts the pharyngeal lumen in the upper pharynx.
Superior pharyngeal constrictor
The ____ is superiorly attached to the sphenoid bone and the lateral cartilage of the eustachian tube. Inferiorly it fans out and forms the palatine aponeurosis.
Tensor veli palatini
The ________ goes down and around the hamulus pterygoideus which changes its direction of pull from vertical to horizontal.
Tensor Veli Palatini
The Tensor veli palatini is innervated by ____
CN V
T or F: The Tensor Veli Palatini is the sole elevator of the velum
False- Levator veli palatini
The _______ forms the levator sling inferiorly and is attached to the temporal bone and the medial cartilage of the Eustachian tube superiorly
Levator Veli palatini
What is the primary and secondary function of the Levator Veli palatini?
primary = raise velum secondary = ET opening
The Levator veli palatini is innervated by ___
pharyngeal plexus (pharyngeal branch of vagus and glossopharyngeus)
The ______ attaches to the oral surface of the palatine aponeurosis superiorly and the lateral posterior dorsum of the tongue inferiorly.
Palatoglossus
What is the function of the palatoglossus?
- lower the velum
- dorsal elevation of the tongue
- anterior faucial arch
T or F: The palatoglossus is innervated by the CN V
False -by pharyngeal plexus (pharyngeal branch of vagus)
The palatopharyngeus attaches superiorly to the _______ and inferiorly to _________
palatine aponeurosis
lateral pharyngeal wall and posterior thyroid cartilage
What is the function of the palatopharyngeus?
- medial displacement of the lateral pharyngeal walls
- lowering velum
- forms posterior/ second faucial arch
The palatopharyngeus is innervated by ______
pharyngeal plexus
What is the pharyngeal plexus?
A network of intersecting nerve fibers composed of branches of CN IX and CN X
- and some argue Cranial portion of CN XI
The function of the superior constrictor? Innervation?
pharyngeal narrowing (naso and upper oropharyngeal segment) Pharyngeal plexus
______ orginates from the pterygoid plate and the lateral fringe of the velum and runs along the pharyngeal walls to the median pharyngeal raphe.
Superior Constrictor
______ is a muscle pair which runs parallel to the velar midline into the mucous membrane of the uvula
Musculi Uvulae
What is the function of the musculi uvulae?
Innervated by?
- intrinsic flexion and shortening of the velum
- forms velar eminence (seen in men)
Pharyngeal plexus