Oral Cavity and Pharynx Flashcards
Name the organs in the digestive system
- Oral cavity: teeth, tongue, salivary organs
- Pharynx
- Oesophagus
- Stomach
- Small intesstine
- LArge intestine
- Rectum and anal canal
- Gall bladder
- Liver
- Pancreas
Name all the different components of the small intestine
- Duodenum
- Jejunum
- Ileum
Name all the components of the Large intestine
- Caecum
- Appendix
- Ascending colon
- Transverse colon
- Descending colon
- Sigmoid colon
What is the palatoglossal arch?
One of a pair of ridges or folds of mucous membrane passing from the soft palate to the side of the tongue; it encloses the palatoglossus muscle and forms the anterior margin of the tonsillar fossa. Also demarcates the oral cavity from the isthmus of fauces
What is thought to enhance the sucking capability of an infant?
Buccal fat pad
What are epstein’s pearls?
Clusters of white spots in the midline junction of hard and soft palates
What are th tonsils contained within waldeyer’s ring?
- Pharyngeal
- Tubal
- Palatine
- Lingual
What are the function of the salivary glands?
- Lubrication and binding of masticated food
- Solubilization of dry food
- Digestion of carbohydrqates (alph-amylase)
- oral hygiene
What is the cheek (buccae) made up by?
- Skin
- Buccinator muscle
- Buccopharyngeal fascia
- Buccal glands
- Buccal (Bichat’s) fat pad
- Mucous membrane
What does the buccinator attach to?
- Maxilla
- Mandible
- Pterygomandibular raphe (where it fuses with the superior pharyngeal constrictor)
What are the functions of the digestive system which prepare food for cellular utilization?
- Ingestion
- Mastication
- Deglutition (swalowing)
- Propulaion (peristalisis, segmentation)
- Mechanical digestion
- Chemical digestion
- Absorption
- Defecation
Where does the oral vestibule lie?
Between the lips and the cheeks externally and the gums and teeth internally
What are the cheeks (buccae) made up of?
- Skin
- Buccinator muscle
- Buccopharyngeal fossa
- Buccal glands
- Buccal (Bichat’s) fat pat
- Mucous membrane
What muscle makes up the bulk of the cheek?
Buccinator muscle
What does the buccinator muscle attach to?
- Maxilla
- Mandible
- Pterygomandibular raphe (where it fuses with the superior pharyngeal constrictor)
Crossing over of the middle buccinator muscles helps us do what?
Purse our lips
Where can the point of cross-over be felt?
Just lateral to the angle of the mouth
What muscle does the buccinator muscle contribute to at the lips?
Orbicularis oris
What are the 2 arches which extend from the uvula to the lateral walls?
Anteriorly: Palatoglossal arch
Posteriorly: Palatopharyngeal arch
What is formed between the palatoglossal and palatopharyngeal arches?
Tonsillar fossa
What does the tonsillar fossa house?
Palatine tonsils
What are the muscles of the soft palate?
- Palatoglossus
- Palatopharyngeus
- Levator veli palatini
- Tensor veli palatini
What are the muscles of mastication?
- Medial pterygoid
- Lateral pterygoid
- Masseter
- Temporalis
What is the only muscle of mastication that opens the mouth?
Lateral pterygoid by protracting the mandible
What muscle forms a support for the tongue?
Mylohyoid muscle
How can an infection from the mouth reach the neck?
Through the fascial plane
What gives the tongue a ‘furry’ appearance?
Papillae which grip food and house taste buds
What is the tongue
A ‘bag’ of striated muscles, covered with mucous membrane
What are the 4 types of papillae?
- Vallate (circumvallate) papillae
- Folate papillae
- Fungiform papillae
- Filiform papillae
What papillae is not involved in taste and what does it function as?
Filiform papillae and makes the surface rough
How can the muscles of the tongue be divided?
Into extrinsic and intrinsic
How do extrinsic muscles affect the tongue?
Alter the position (move) the tongue
What are the extrinsic muscles of the tongue innervated by?
Hypoglossal nerve except palatoglossus (pharyngeal plexus, CN-X)
What are the intrinsic muscles of the tongue innervated by?
Hypoglossal nerve (CN-XII)
How do the intrinsic muscles affect the tongue?
THey alter the shape of the tongue
What muscles draw the tongue upwards and backwards?
The palatoglossus and styloglossus