Nose And Paranasal Sinuses

Question 1

What kind of receptor do we have for taste and smell

Answer 1

Chemoreceptors

Question 2

How do we perceive smell

Answer 2

Olfactory nerve

Question 3

Where the does lower part of the dorsum extend to

Answer 3

Ends in the ala nasi

Question 4

Other name of the nostril

Answer 4

Nares

Question 5

What are the skeletal parts of the nose

Answer 5

Nasal bones
Frontal proc of maxillae
Nasal part of the frontal bone

Question 6

What are the components of the nasal septum

Answer 6

Perpendicular plate of ethmoid
Vomer
Septal cartilage

Question 7

Where is the olfactory receptors located

Answer 7

Mucosa on the superior surface and it is covered by a mucus membrane

Question 8

Function of the respiratory mucosa

Answer 8

Moistens air

Traps incoming foreign particles

Question 9

What do you call the microvili in the nasal cavity that reaps foreign particles

Answer 9

Vibrassae

Nose hair

Question 10

Olfactory pathway

Answer 10

Olfactory receptors
Olfactory nerve
Olfactory bulb
Olfactory tract
And to the temporal lobe

Question 11

What movement is better directs the chemical substance to the olfactory receptors

Answer 11

Sniffing

Question 12

In the nasal mucosa superior 1/3 contains of organs of smell

Answer 12

Olfactory area

Question 13

The root of the nasal cavity is formed by

Answer 13

Frontal
Ethmoid
Sphenoid bones

Question 14

What are the projection called in the lateral wall of the nasal cavity

Answer 14

Conchae

Question 15

function of the conchae

Answer 15

Increase surface area of the nose

Increases air turbulence within the cavity

Question 16

What are the nasal passages in the nasal conchae

Answer 16

Sphenoethmoid recess
Superior meatus
Middle meatus
Inferior meatus

Question 17

What does the nasal cavity separate

Answer 17

Anterior hard palate

Posterior soft palate

Question 18

What is the dilated part inside the nostril

Answer 18

Vestibule

Question 19

Where nose bleeding occurs

Answer 19

Kiesselbach’s area

Question 20

The nasal septum contains what nerves

Answer 20

Nasopalatine
Greater palatine
Anterior ethmoid
Posterior ethmoid

Question 21

Nerve supply of the frontal sinus

Answer 21

Branch of the supraorbital nerve

Question 22

Nerve supply of the ethmoidal sinus

Answer 22

Nasociliary nerve (CN V1)

Question 23

which sinus where we can access the pituitary gland via the transphenoidal approach

Answer 23

Sphenoidal sinus

Question 24

Nerve supply of the maxillary sinus

Answer 24

Superior alveolar sinus