Oral & Nasal Cavity Flashcards
What is the roof of the nasal cavity?
Frontal, nasal, ethmoid, and sphenoid bone
What is the floor of the nasal cavity?
Palatine process of maxilla, horizontal plate of palatine bones
What is the lateral wall of the nasal cavity?
Nasal conchae, frontal process of maxilla, perpendicular plate of palatine bone, medial pterygoid plate
What is the medial wall of the nasal cavity?
Nasal septum
What are the connections of the nasal cavity?
Nasopharynx, anterior cranial fossa, paranasal sinuses, pterygopalatine fossa, infratemporal fossa, orbit, oral cavity, outside world!
Where does the sphenopalatine foramen connect?
Pterygopalatine fossa
What runs through the sphenopalatine foramen?
Sphenopalatine artery
What can found in the lateral wall of the nasal cavity?
Superior concha, middle concha, and inferior concha
What composes of the septum?
Septal cartilage, vomer, perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone
What provides passage from nasal cavity to nasopharynx?
Choanae
What sinus is found inside the ethmoid bone?
Ethmoid sinus -> ethmoid air cells
What is the conchae?
Bony projection covered in mucosa
What does the conchae do?
Create passages (meati) to direct airflow
Create turbulence and increase mucosal surface area to warm and humidify air
What are the sinuses?
Air-filled spaces in bones surrounding nasal cavity lined by mucous membranes
Where do the sinuses drain into?
Nasal cavity via meati
What are the four sinuses?
Frontal, ethmoidal, sphenoidal, and maxillary
Route of movement of chonae?
Chonae -> larynx -> trachea
What is the largest sinus?
Maxillary sinus
What is the asymmetrical sinus?
Frontal sinus
What sits under the sella turcica?
Sphenoid sinus
Where is the ethmoid sinus?
Medial border
How can we use the sphenoid sinus?
Access and remove the pituitary gland
Where is the sphenoid sinus drainage site?
Spheno-ethmoidal recess
Where is the frontal sinus drainage site?
Semilunar hiatus of middle meatus (via frontonasal duct)