Nasal and Oral Cavities Flashcards
What is the purpose of the nasal cavities?
warm and humidify air breathed in
provide for sense of smell
What are the 3 nasal cavities?
nasal vestibule- flared, hair follicles
respiratory region- largest art with conchae
olfactory region- superior with smell receptors
What are the boundaries of the nasal cavity?
lateral wall
medial wall = nasal septum
Floor- hard palate of oral cavity
Roof
What bones are in the lateral wall of the nasal cavity?
1 Nasal bone (lateral and alar cartilage)
2 maxilla
3 lacrimal bone
4 ethmoid (conchae)
5 inferior nasal concha
6 perpendicular plate of palatine one
7 medial pterygoid plate of sphenoid bone
What is the medial wall of the nasal cavity?
1 perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone
2 vomer
3 septal cartilage
What is the floor of the nasal cavity?
1 anterior 2/3r of maxilla
2. posterior 1/3 of palatine
What is the roof of the nasal cavity?
1 lateral nasal cartialge 2 nasal bone 3 frontal bone 4 cribiform plate of ethmoid bone 5 body of sphenoid bone
What are the 6 openings of the nasal cavity?
- orbit= nasolacrimal duct
- nasopharynx= choanae
- paranasal sinus = meatal openings
- anterior cranial fossa = cribifrorm plate and foramen cecum with olfactory
- trygopalatine fossa = sphenopalatine foramen
- oral cavity = incisive canal (4 front teeth)
What are the 4 paranasal sinuses?
- maxillary sinus = w/in body of maxilla beneath orbit
- ethnonidal sinus = w/in each ethmoid bone
- anterior ethnoidal air cells
- middle ethomidal air cells
- posterior ethmoidal air cells - frontal sinus = within frontal bone, bilaterally
- sphenoidal sinus = within sphenoid bone, separate into right and left halves by midline septum
What are the 4 openings into meati?
- sphenoethmoidal recess- above superior concha for sphenoidal sinus
- superior meatus- beneath superior concha for posterio ethmoidal air cells
- middle meatus- beneath middle concha with hiatus semilunaris and ethnoidak bulla
- inferior meatus- orifice of nasolacrimal duct
What is drains into the haitus semilunaris in the middle meatus?
1 frontal sinus- from frontonasal duct to infundibulum
2 anterior ethmoidal air cells
- maxillary sinus- very close to sinus roof
What drains into the ethmoidal bulla?
middle ethmoidal air cells
What is the blood supply of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity?
1 antiorior and posterior ethmoidal arteries ( branch of ophthalmic a)
2 lateral nasal branches (branch of facial a)
3 sphenopalatine artery (branch of maxillary)
What is the blood supply of the medial (septal) wall?
1 anterior and posterior ethmoidal artery
2 superior lavial artery (branch of facial)
3 sphenopalatine branches (with nasopalatine nerve through incivive canal)
What is the blood supply of kiesselbachs area?
anastomoses between anterior ethmoidal, sphenopalatine, superior labial branches of anteiror septum
What is the most common site for nosebleedsdue to trauma, infection, dry air, or hypertension?
Kiesselbach’s area
What is the nerve supply for the lateral wall of the nasal cavity?
1 Anterior ethmoidal nerve- from V1 sensory
2 branches from pterygopalatine ganglion
- sensory from V2
- parasympathetic (secretomotor) from CN 7 (from greater petrosal)
- sympathetic (vasoconstriction)
- olfacotry nerves
- smell CN1 - nerve of pterygoid canal
- greater petrosal (parasympathetics, CN7)
- deep petrosal (sympathetics, cartoid plexus)
- autonomic innervation to pterygopalatine ganglion) ONLY PARASMPATHICS synpase there
- autonomics innervate nasal and oral mucosa by following maxillary V2 from ganglion to glands
What nerves supply the medial septal wall?
1 Anterior ethmoidal nerve- anterior superior area of septum
2 olfactory nerve- smell, roof of nasal cavity)
3 nasopalatine n - accompanies sphenopalatine artery through incisive canal
What synapses at the pterygopalatine ganglion?
parasympathetics only
What nerve and artery travel together through the incisive canal?
nasopalatine n and sphenopalatine a
What causes a painful tooth ache?
maxillary sinus infection
What does the pterygopalatine ganglion hang off of?
maxillary V2
What is the roof of the pterygopalatine fossa?
foramen rotundum
- connects middle cranial fossa with PPF
- V2 runs through foramen
What is the left lateral wall of the PPF?
pterygomaxillary fissure
- lateral opening where maxillary artery enters from infratemporal fossa
- becomes sphenopalatine atery
What is the medial wall (right) of the PPF?
sphenopalatine foramen
- medial opening between PPF and nasal cavity
- sphenopalatine artery, lateral nasal n, nasopalatine n go through
What is the anterior (front) wall of the PPF?
inferior orbital fissure
- V2 becomes infraorbital nerve
- passes anteriorly from PPF to orbit
What is the posterior wall (behind) of the PPF?
Pterygoid canal
- nerve and artery of pterygoid canal come through
- carry secretomotor and sympathetic fibers
What is the floor of the PPF?
palatine canal
- greater and lesser palatine nn and descending palatine artery come through
- pharyngeal n sensory to nasopharynx
What makes up the nerve of the pterygoid canal?
1 greater pretrosal nerve (after foramen lacerum)
2- deep petrosal nerve
Where does the nerve of the pterygoid canal go?
1 through pterygoid canal
2 pterygopalatine fossa
3 pterygopalatine ganglion (ONLY parasymp fibers synapse)
- post ganglionic paraympsathetic fibers rejoin sympathetic fibers and branch to go to nasal cavity and hard palate of oral cavity
How do parasympathetic and sympathetic fibers affect secretion?
parasympathetic- increase secretion (thin and watery)
sympathetic- increase secretion of viscous mucus
Does maxillary nerve V2 synase at the pterygopalatine ganglion?
NO. ‘‘provides sensory innervation but pass through ganglion without synpasing
Does the deep petrosal sympathetic fibers synmpase at pterygopalatine ganglion?
NO. pass through carrying sympathetics
cause vasoconstrictuion of arteries for nasal mucosa and palate
What synapses at the pterygopalatine ganglion?
Parasympathetic fibers (greater petrosal CN 7)
NOT sympathetic fibers deep petrosal
NOT V2
What makes up the hard palate of the oral cavity?
palatine process of maxilla (ant 2/3)
horizontal plate of palatine bone (post 1/3)
What are the 3 foramen of the hard palate?
1 incisive fossa
- nasopalatine artery and nerve
2 greater palatine foramen (big)
- greater palatine artery and nerve
3 lesser palatine foramen (tiny)
- lesser palatine artery and nerve
What gland is in the hard palate and soft palate?
palatine glands (covered with mucus)