Nasal Cavity Flashcards
What a re the three regions of the nasal cav
Vestibule
Respiratory
Olfactory
What’s lines the respiratory region
Ciliated pseudo stratified epi with goblet cells
What are the conchae of the nasal cav
Shelves of bone which act as turbinates and increase the sa
Inferior
Middle
Superior
What bones form the conchae
Ethmoid - superior and Middle
Independant - inferior
What are the four meatuses
Inferior
Middle
Superior
Sphenoethmoidal recess
What doe the meatuses drain
Paranasal sinuses
What drains into the Middle meatus
Frontal
Maxillary
Anterior ethmoidal sinuses
What drains Into the superior meatus
Posterior ethmoidal sinuses
What drinks into the sohenoethmidal recess
Sphenoidal sinus
What drains out of the inferior meatus
The nasolacrimal duct
What does the crubiform plate have to do with he nasal cav
Part fo the ethmoid bone
Roof
Perforations for olfactory nerve to enter and exit
What does the sphenopalatine formane allow
Communication between nasal cav and pterygopalatine fossA
What passes through the sphenopalatine foramen
Sphenopalatine artery
Nasopalatine artery
Superiori nasal nerves
What si the incisive canal
Pathway between nasal cav and incisive fossA of oral cav
What tarvesl through th incisive canal
Nasopalatine nerve and greater palatine artery