Lecture 9: Nasal Cavity and Pterygopalatine Fossa Flashcards

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What structures compose the bony part of external nose?

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  • Nasal Bones
  • Frontal Part of Maxilla
  • Nasal Part of frontal bone and nasal spine
  • Bony part of nasal septum
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What structures compose the Cartilaginous part of the nose?

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  • 2 lateral cartilages
  • 2 alar cartilages (major and minor)
  • Septal Cartilage (nasal septum)
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What structures make up nasal septum?

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  • Perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone
  • Vomer
  • Septal Cartilage
  • Nasal Crests of Maxillary and Palantine Bones
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Which conchae are part of the ethmoid bone and which one is independent?

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Ethmoid Bone: Superior and middle nasal conchae

Independent: Inferior nasal concha

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What is the nasal mucosa connected to?

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  • Periostium of the bony parts of the nasal cavity
  • Perichondrium of cartilagenous nasal components
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What is the area called that is lined with mucosa?

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  • Inferior ⅔ of nose: Respiratory Area
  • Superior ⅓ of nose: Olfactory Area
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What are the boundaries of the nasal cavity?

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  • Roof: Frontal, Ethmoid, and Sphenoid Bone
  • Floor: Palantine Process of Maxilla and Horizontal plate of palantine bone
  • Medial Wall: Nasal Septum
  • Lateral Wall: Superior, Middle, and Inferior Nasal Conchae
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What are the four nasal cavity passages?

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  • Spheno-ethmoidal Recess
  • Superior Nasal Meatus
  • Middle Nasal Meatus
  • Inferior Nasal Meatus
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What does the Spheno-ethmoidal Recess open into?

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Sphenoid Sinus

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What does the Superior Nasal Meatus open into?

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Ethmoidal Sinuses

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What does the Middle Nasal Meatus open into?

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Frontal and Maxillay Sinus

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What does Inferior Nasal Meatus the open into?

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Nasolacrimal Duct

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What arteries supply the nasal cavity?

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  • Maxillary Artery
    • Sphenopalatine Artery
    • Greater Palantine Artery
  • Facial Artery
    • Superior Labial Artery
    • Lateral Nasal Branches
  • Ophthalmic Arteries
    • Anterior and Posterior Ethmoidal Arteries
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What is Kiesselbach’s Area?

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Capillary bed anastamosis between Maxillary A. and Facial A. branches in the nasal septum

Can cause epistaxis (nosebleeds)

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What veins drain the nasal cavity?

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  • Sphenopalatine Vein
  • Facial Vein
  • Ophthalmic Vein
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Maxillary Sinus

What does it drain?

What is the arterial supply?

What is the innervation?

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  • Drains: Maxillary ostium into middle meatus
  • Blood Supply: Superior Alveolar Branches (Maxillary A.) and Greater Palatine Artery
  • Innervation: Superior Alveolar Nerve
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Ethmoid Sinus

What does it drain?

What is the arterial supply?

What is the innervation?

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  • Drains: Ethmoid air cells located between orbits
  • Blood Supply: Ethmoidal Artery from Ophthalmic Artery
    • From ECA
  • Innervation: Nasociliary Nerves (CN V1)
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Sphenoid Sinus

What does it drain?

What is the arterial supply?

What is the innervation?

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  • Drains: Spheno-ethmoidal recess
  • Blood Supply: Posterior Ethmoidal Artery
  • Innervation: Posterior Ethmoidal Nerve
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Frontal Sinus

What does it drain?

What is the arterial supply?

What is the innervation?

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  • Drains: Frontonasal Duct into middle meatus
  • Blood Supply: Supraorbital Artery and Anterior Ethmoidal Artery
  • Innervation: Supraorbital Nerve (CN V1)
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21
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What nervous fibers arise from the superior cervical ganglion?

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Postsynaptic sympathetics