Lecture 9- Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses Flashcards
At the tip of the nose is…. cartilage which is u-shaped and mobile
major alar
There is a …. plate of cartilage on either side of a midline septal…
- lateral
- cartilage
Bony contributions to the nasal cavity are from… and…
These form the …
- nasalis/nasal bone and frontal bone
- anterior roof
The central roof of the nasal cavity is formed by…
- ethmoid
- cribiform plate
The posterior roof of the nasal cavity is formed by…
-sphenoid
The medial wall of the nasal cavity anteriorly is made up of…
Posteriorly it is made up by…
- septal cartilage
- perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone
The posterior-inferior aspect of the medial wall of the nasal cavity is made up by the… which forms a … with the maxillary and palatine bones
- Vomer
- nasal crest
The floor of the nasal cavity is the made up of…
3/4 maxilla
1/4 palatine
The… separate the nasal cavity from nasopharynx
choanae
Superior and middle concha are components of the… bone but the inferior concha is an … bone that articulates with the…
- ethmoid
- independent
- maxilla
Above the superior nasal concha is… and below it is…
Each concha has a… below it
- spheno-ethmoidal recess
- superior meatus
- meatus
The… sinus is found in frontal bone. lateral to midline and drains via…. into infundibulum which drains into… which is a feature of the…
- frontal
- frontonasal duct
- Hiatus semilunaris
- middle meatus
The frontal sinus ultimately drains anterior to…
ethmoidal bulla
The… sinus is made up of 3 walls and appears pyramidal in coronal section
maxillary
The superior wall of the maxillary sinus separates it from the…
orbit
The medial wall of the maxillary sinus separates it from the…
nasal cavity
The lateral wall of the maxillary sinus separates it from….
infratemporal fossa
The maxillary sinus drains… because of how much of the day we spend laying down at night
superiorly
The maxillary sinus drains into the … which is located in the…
- maxillary ostium
- middle meatus
The roots of the teeth can project into… and may be covered by…
- maxillary sinus
- mucoperiosteum