Mouth/Oral Cavity/Buccal Cavity

Question 1

Foods enter the digestive tract through

Answer 1

Oral cavity, Mouth or Buccal Cavity

Question 2

Protect the opening of the chamber anteriorly, the cheeks form its lateral walls, and the palate form its roof.

Answer 2

The lips (labia)

Question 3

The anterior portion of the palate is referred to as the [. ] because the palatine processes of the maxillae and horizontal plates of the palatine bones underlie it.

Answer 3

Hard Palate

Question 4

The posterior [. ] is a fibromuscular structure that is unsupported by bone.

Answer 4

Soft Palate

Question 5

A finger-like projection of the soft palate extends inferiorly from its posterior margin. The soft palate rises to close off the oral cavity from the nasal and pharyngeal passages during swallowing.

Answer 5

Uvula

Question 6

The floor of the oral cavity is occupied by the muscular tongue, which is largely supported by the [. ] and attaches to the hyoid bone, mandible, styloid processes and pharynx.

Answer 6

Mylohyoid muscle

Question 7

Secures the inferior midline of the tongue to the floor of the mouth.

Answer 7

Lingual frenulum

Question 8

The space between the lips and the cheeks and the teeth and gums

Answer 8

Oral vestibule

Question 9

The area that lies within the teeth and gums

Answer 9

Oral cavity proper

Question 10

One of the hard calcified structures set in the alveolar processes of the jaws for biting and mastication of food.

Answer 10

Teeth

Question 11

Is a muscular organ attached to the floor of the mouth. It is the chief organ of taste and aid in mastication, swallowing and speech.

Answer 11

Tongue

Question 12

Are three pairs of glands whose combined secretions constitute the saliva.

Answer 12

Salivary Glands

Question 13

THREE PAIRS OF SALIVARY GLANDS:

Answer 13

Parotid gland
Sublingual gland
Submandibular or Sub-maxillary gland

Question 14

Is the largest among the salivary glands that lies immediately inferior and anterior to the external ear which has a duct that opens into the oral vestibule opposite the second upper molar called the “Stensen’s duct”.

Answer 14

Parotid Gland

Question 15

Is composed of a group of smaller glands which is narrow and elongated in form which has also a duct that opens beside the orifice of the Wharton’s duct called the “Bartholin’s duct”/”Duct of Rivinus”.

Answer 15

Sublingual Gland

Question 16

Iss irregularly shaped, fairly large that extend posteriorly from a point below the first molar almost to the angle of the mandible. It also has a duct which is known as the “Wharton’s duct”.

Answer 16

Submandibular/Sub-maxillary gland

Question 17

Parotid gland

Answer 17

Stensen’s duct

Question 18

Sublingual Gland

Answer 18

Bartholin’s duct or Duct of Rivinus

Question 19

Submandibular

Answer 19

Warthon’s duct