Nasal Anatomy Flashcards
What forms the nasal septum?
The vomer, perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone and septal cartilage
What passes through the cribiform plate?
Olfactory Nerves
What attaches to the crista gali?
The Falx Cerebri
What kind of epthelium lies within the nasal cavity?
Ciliated Pseudostratified Columnar
What is the roof of the nasal cavity lined by?
Olfactory mucosa
What is the name of the space above the superior concha?
Spheno-ethmoidal recess
Superior and middle conchae are parts of which bone?
The ethmoid bone
The sphenoid sinus opens into which recess?
The sphenoethmoidal recess
The posterior ethmoid air cells open into which meatus?
The superior meatus
The middle meatus has what structures open into it?
The maxillary and frontal sinus, anterior ethmoidal and middle ethmoidal air cells
The nasolacrimal duct opens into which meatus?
Inferior meatus
The frontal air sinus is innervated by which branch of the trigeminal nerve?
V1
The maxillary air sinus is innervated by which branch of the trigeminal nerve?
V2
The sphenoid air sinus is innervated by which branch of the trigeminal nerve?
V1 and V2
Ethmoidal air cells are innervated by which branch of the trigeminal nerve?
V1
