Nasal Cavity Flashcards
3 components to the nasal septum
Anterior to posterior
And clinical correlate
Septal cartilage
Ethmoid(perpendicular plate)
Vomer
Fracture of the noise can fracture the cribiform plate and leak CSF from the nose
Lateral wall of the nasal cavity
- Superior concha (ethmoid)
- Middle concha (ethmoid)
- Inferior concha (sphenoid)
Sphenoethmoidal recess
Above the superior concha
Superior meatus
Below the superior concha
Middle meatus
Below middle concha
Inferior meatus
Below inferior concha
Structures in the middle meatus
2 of them
- Ethmoidal bulla- rounded elevation below the middle concha
- Hiatus semilunaris- c shaped slit below the bulla
Infundibulum-anterior part of the hiatus
Openings from the sphenoethmoidal recess
- Oalfactory foramena
2. Sphenoid air sinus
Superior meatus openings
Posterior ethical air cells
Middle meatus openings
- Middle ethmoidal air cells-bulla
- Anterior ethmoidal air cells-hiatus semilunaris
- Maxillary sinus-hiatus semilunaris
- Fronatal sinus-infundibulum
Inferior meatus openings
Opening of the nasolacrimal duct
What nerve provides general sensation to the nasal cavity
V1, V2
What supplies the mucous glands of the nose
VII but the ptergopalatine ganglion
Arteries of the nasal cavity
- Sphenopalatine artery (maxillary)
- Ant/post ethmoidal (ophthalmic)
- Facial
Veins of the nasal cavity
- Ethmoidal–>ophthalmic
- Other branches and the pterygoid venous plexus
- Facial vein