Osteology Flashcards
What goes through the Stylomastoid foramen?
Facial nerve (VII)
What goes through the Hypoglossal canal?
Hypoglossal nerve (XII)
What structures go through the Foramen magnum?
- Medulla
- meninges
- spinal roots of accessory nerves (CN XI)
- vertebral arteries
- Meningeal branches of vertebral arteries
What goes through the supraorbital notch/foramen?
supraorbital nerve and artery
What goes through foramen rotundum?
maxillary nerve (CN V2 of trigeminal nerve)
What goes through foramen ovale?
- mandibular nerve (CN V3 of trigeminal nerve)
- accessory meningeal artery
- lesser petrosal nerve
What goes through foramen spinosum?
- meningeal branch of mandibular nerve
- middle meningeal artery and vein
What goes through the ethmoid foramen?
anterior and posterior ethmoidal nerves and arteries
What goes through the superior orbital fissure?
- ophthalmic vein
- oculomotor nerve (CN III)
- trochlear nerve (CN IV)
- abducent nerve (CN VI)
- ophthalmic nerve (CN V1 of trigeminal nerve)
What runs through the optic canal?
- ophthalmic artery
- optic nerve (CN II)
What runs through the olfactory foramina of cribiform plate?
Olfactory nerves (CN I)
What structures pass OVER the foramen lacerum?
**NOT THROUGH
- internal carotid artery
- internal carotid plexus
What main structure would you see in the pterygomaxillary fissure?
Zygomatic arch is cut
Maxillary artery
What goes through the inferior orbital fissure?
infraorbital nerve and artery
What runs through the carotid canal?
- internal carotid artery
- carotid plexus
What runs through the internal acoustic meatus?
- facial nerve (CN VII)
- vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII)
- labyrinthine/acoustic artery
What runs through the Petrotympanic fissure?
Chorda tympani nerve
What runs through the jugular foramen?
- Internal jugular vein
- Posterior Meningeal Artery
- glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX)
- vagus nerve (CN X)
- Accessory nerve (CN XI)
What runs through the superior alveolar foramen?
posterior superior alveolar nerve and artery
1) What runs through the greater palatine foramen?
2) What runs through the lesser palatine foramen?
1) greater palatine nerve and artery
2) lesser palatine nerve and artery
What runs through the incisive canal?
- nasopalatine nerve
- greater palatine nerve
- septal artery
- greater palatine artery
What runs through the sphenopalatine foramen?
- sphenopalatine artery
- nasopalatine nerve
- lateral nasal nerve
1) Greater Petrosal n has what type of autonomic fibers and from what nerve?
2) On its way to synapse at?
1) PreG Para (VII)
2) Pterygopalatine Ganglion
Deep Petrosal n has what type of autonomic fibers and from what nerve?
PostG Symp (T1)