Nasal Cavity Flashcards
A = nasal bone
B = frontal process of maxilla
C = Lateral process of septal nasal cartilage
D = septal cartilage
E = lateral crus of major alar cartilage
F = medial crus of major alar cartilage
G = anterior nasal spine of maxilla
A = minor alar cartilage
B = accessory nasal cartilage
C= septal nasal cartilage
What is the anterior opening of the nose called?
piriform apeture
What is the posterior opening of the nose?
choanae
What does the choanae open into?
nasopharynx
A = choanae
What is the role of the conchae?
mucous membrane warms cold air
what bone do the conchae belong?
ethmoid
What conchae is its own bone?
Inferior conchae
A = palatine bone
B = perpendicular plate of palatine bone
A = squamous part of frontal bone
B = sinus of frontal bone
What are the spaces inferior to the conchae?
meatuses
What is superior to the superior meatus?
sphenoethmoidal recess
A = opening of pharyngotympanic tube
B = nasopharynx
A = superior meatus
B = middle meatus
C = inferior meatus
Sphenoethmoidal recess
A = opening of the pharyngotympanic tube
B = nasopharynx
A = middle conchae
B= middle meatus
C = inferior conchae
D = inferior meatus
E = ethmoidal sinus
What is the most important meatus?
Middle
Why is the middle meatus the most important?
Lots of the sinuses open into the middle meatus
What are 3 structures associated with the middle hiatus?
Ethmoidal infundibulum
Hiatus emilunaris
Ethmoidal bulla
Maxillary sinus
A = infundibulum
B = bulla ethmoidalis
C = hiatus semilunar
D = spheno-ethmoidal recess
What sinus is this and in the case of an infection, where would the infection drain to?
Middle meatus via the infundibulum opening
This is the opening of what sinus?
Maxillary sinus
What sinus is this, and where is it draining to?
Posterior ethmoidal cells into the lateral wall of superior meatus
Opening of nasolacrimal duct
What sinus is circled, and where does it drain into?
Sphenoidal sinus, drains into the spheno-ethmoidal recess
Do sinuses drain into the inferior meatus?
No, only excess tears from the nasolacrimal duct