Palate

Question 1

The hard palate separates what?

Answer 1

The ant part of the oral cavity from the nasal cavities

Question 2

The hard palate is formed buy what?

Answer 2

The palatine process of the maxillae

And horizontal plates of the palatine bones

Question 3

Foramina of the hard palate

Answer 3

Incisive fossa

Greater palatine foramen

Lesser palatine foramina

Question 4

Located of the incisive fossa

Answer 4

Post to the central incisor teeth

Question 5

What passes through the incisive fossa

Answer 5

Nasopalatine nerves

Pass from the nose to supply the ant part of the hard palate

Question 6

Location of the greater palatine foramen

Answer 6

Medial to the 3rd molar tooth

Question 7

What passes through the greater palatine foramen

Answer 7

Greater palatine vessels and nerve

Emerge from the foramen and run anteriorly on the palate

Question 8

What runs through the lesser palatine foramina

Answer 8

The lesser palatine nerves and vessels

Transmits to the soft palate and adjacent structures

Question 9

Movable third of the palate

Answer 9

Soft palate

Question 10

The soft palate extends ______ as a curved free margin from which hangs:

Answer 10

Posteroinferiorly

A conical process, the uvula

Question 11

The palatine aponeurosis is formed by the expanded tendon of the ____ ___ ____.

It is attached to the:

Answer 11

Tensor veil palatini

Post arginine of the hard palate

Question 12

The soft palate is continuous with the:

Answer 12

Wall of the pharynx by the palatopharyngeal arch

Question 13

The soft palate is joined to the tongue by the:

Answer 13

Palatoglossal arch

Question 14

Location of the palatine tonsils

Answer 14

One on each side of the oropharynx between the palatoglossal and palatopharyngeal arches

Question 15

Muscles of the soft palate

Answer 15

Tensor veil palatini

Levatorveli palatini

Palatoglossal

Palatopharyngeus

Musculus uvulae

Question 16

OINA for tensor veil palatini

Answer 16

OR: scaphoid fossa at post border of medial pterygoid plate

INS: palatine aponeurosis

NS: nerve to medial pterygoid (branch of CN V3)

AC:: tenses soft palate and opens mouth of pharyngotympanic tube during swallowing and yawning

Question 17

OINA for levatorveli palatini

Answer 17

OR: cartilage of pharyngotympanic tube and petrous part of temporal bone

INS: palatine aponeurosis

NS: Pharyngeal plexus

AC: elevates soft palate during swallowing and yawning

Question 18

OINA for palatoglossus

Answer 18

OR: palatine aponeurosis

INS: side of tongue

NS: Pharyngeal plexus

AC: Elevates post part of the tongue and draws soft palate onto tongue

Question 19

OINA for palatopharyngeus

Answer 19

OR: Palatine aponeurosis

INS: Lateral wall of pharynx

NS: pharyngeal plexus

AC: tenses soft palate and pulls walls of pharynx superiorly, during swallowing

Question 20

OINA for Musculus uvulae

Answer 20

OR: post nasal spine and palatine aponeurosis

INS: Mucosa of uvula

NS: pharyngeal plexus

AC: shortens uvula and pulls superiorly

Question 21

Vasculature of palate

Answer 21

Descending palatine artery

Divides into:
Greater palatine

And lesser palatine

Question 22

The greater palatine arteries enter the palate through the ____ ____ foramen and passes anteriorly to supply:

Answer 22

Greater palatine foramen

The major portion of the hard palate

Question 23

The lesser palatine artery enters the palate through the ___ ___ foramen

Anastomoses with the ____ ____ artery (a branch of the ____ art)

Answer 23

Lesser palatine

Ascending palatine

Facial

Question 24

Innervation of the palate

Answer 24

Greater palatine nerve

Nasopalatine nerve

Lesser palatine nerves

Pharyngeal plexus

Question 25

What does the greater palatine nerve supply

Answer 25

The gingivae

Mucous membrane

Glands of most of the hard palate

Question 26

What does the nasopalatine nerve supply

Answer 26

The mucous membrane of the anterior part of the hard palate

Question 27

What do the lesser palatine nerves supply

Answer 27

The soft palate

Question 28

The pharyngeal plexus is formed by the _______ branch of:

Answer 28

Pharyngeal

Vagus (motor) and glossopharyngeal (sensory)

Question 29

What does the pharyngeal plexus supply

Answer 29

All muscles of the soft palate except the tensor veil palatini supplies by mandibular nerve (CN V3)