Palate anatomy and innervation

Question 1

what is the palate?

Answer 1

the tissue that forms the roof of the mouth

Question 2

what are the two divisions of the palate? which is anterior?

Answer 2

hard palate anterior
soft palate

Question 3

what is the soft tissue in the soft palate?

Answer 3

mucosa thats overlying musculature

Question 4

what are the 4 bones of the hard palate?

Answer 4

right and left maxilla
right and left palatine bone

Question 5

what part of the maxilla forms the hard palate?

Answer 5

palatine process

Question 6

what part of the palatine bones form the palate?

Answer 6

horizontal plates

Question 7

name this bone and the particular part of the bone

Answer 7

palatine process of maxillae

Question 8

name this foramen?

Answer 8

incisive canal

Question 9

name this foraminae and what passes through it

Answer 9

greater and lesser palatine foramen for CNV2 branches and vessels

Question 10

name this bone and the particular part of the bone

Answer 10

horizontal plates of palatine bone

Question 11

name this part of the palatine bone

Answer 11

pyramidal process

Question 12

name this bone and these parts

Answer 12

sphenoid bone
lateral and medial pterygoid plates

Question 13

name this part of the maxilla

Answer 13

maxillary tuberosity

Question 14

name this suture

Answer 14

median palatine suture

Question 15

what is the epithelium of the hard palate?

Answer 15

keratinised stratified squamous epithelium

Question 16

what is the epithelium of the soft palate?

Answer 16

non-keratinised stratified squamous epithelium

Question 17

what does raphe mean in anatomy?

Answer 17

when a right and left structure is zipped together

Question 18

name this structure

Answer 18

incisive papilla

Question 19

name this ridge like structure

Answer 19

palatal rugae

Question 20

name this structure

Answer 20

palatine raphe

Question 21

what are these holes?

Answer 21

duct opening for palatine salivary glands

Question 22

what are these structures called

Answer 22

minor salivary glands in the palatal mucosa

Question 23

what causes a cleft palate?

Answer 23

failure of the lateral palatine processes to meet and fuse

Question 24

what is an aponeurosis?

Answer 24

attaches muscles to bones

Question 25

the nasoplatine nerve of CNV2 exits where in the palate?

Answer 25

incisive canal

Question 26

the greater and lesser palatine nerves exit where in the palate?

Answer 26

greater and lesser palatine foramen

Question 27

name this nerve

Answer 27

nasopalatine nerve branch of CNV2

Question 28

name these arteries

Answer 28

greater and lesser palatine arteries

Question 29

name this structure

Answer 29

flattened tendon -> aponeurosis

Question 30

name this boney structure

Answer 30

pterygoid hamalus

Question 31

name these nerves

Answer 31

greater and lesser palatine nerves branches of CNV2

Question 32

where do the greater palatine nerves supply?

Answer 32

supply the hard palate

Question 33

where do the lesser palatine nerves supply?

Answer 33

soft palate

Question 34

where do the greater palatine arteries supply?

Answer 34

hard palate

Question 35

where do the lesser palatine arteries supply?

Answer 35

the soft palate

Question 36

name this structure

Answer 36

pterygopalatine ganglion

Question 37

name these nerves and arteries

Answer 37

lesser palatine arteries and nerves

Question 38

name these arteries and nerves

Answer 38

greater palatine arteries and nerves

Question 39

the greater and lesser palatine nerves and nasopalatine nerve are branches of what?

Answer 39

maxillary division of trigeminal nerve

Question 40

what does the nasopalatine nerve supply?

Answer 40

palatal gingivae of anterior teeth and mucosa of anterior palate

Question 41

what nerve supplies the hard palate?

Answer 41

greater palatine nerve and nasopalatine nerve

Question 42

what supplies this part of the palate?

Answer 42

incisive branch of nasopalatine nerve

Question 43

what supplies this part of the palate?

Answer 43

greater palatine nerves

Question 44

what supplies this part of the palate?

Answer 44

lesser palatine nerves

Question 45

where does lymph from the anterior part of the hard palate drain?

Answer 45

submandibular nodes then to the deep cervical lymph nodes

Question 46

where does lymph from the soft palate and the posterior part of the hard palate drain?

Answer 46

straight to the deep cervical lymph nodes or retropharyngeal nodes then deep cervical lymph nodes

Question 47

name this structure

Answer 47

palatopharyngeal arch

Question 48

name this structure

Answer 48

palatoglossal arch

Question 49

name this structure

Answer 49

palatine tonsil

Question 50

name this structure

Answer 50

uvula

Question 51

name this structure

Answer 51

posterior wall of oropharynx

Question 52

what are the 5 pairs of muscles of the soft palate?

Answer 52

levator veli palatini tensor veli palatini musculus uvulae palatoglossus palatopharyngeus

Question 53

name this muscle

Answer 53

levator veli palatini

Question 54

name this muscle

Answer 54

tensor veli palatini

Question 55

name this muscle

Answer 55

musculus uvulae

Question 56

name this muscle

Answer 56

palatoglossus

Question 57

name this muscle

Answer 57

palatopharyngeus

Question 58

what doe levator veli palatini do?

Answer 58

elevates the palate

Question 59

what does tensor veli palatini do?

Answer 59

tenses the palate

Question 60

the skeletal muscles of the soft palate are all supplied by what nerves?

Answer 60

CN X and CN XI except tensor veli palatini which is CNV3

Question 61

the tensor veli palatini attaches superiorly where?

Answer 61

to the sphenoid bone

Question 62

where does the tendon of tensor veli palatini turn medially and enter the soft palate?

Answer 62

at the pterygoid hamalus

Question 63

what forms the palatine aponeurosis?

Answer 63

the tendons from the tensor veli palatini of each side flatten out and join in the soft palate

Question 64

name this structure

Answer 64

pterygoid hamalus

Question 65

levator veli palatini attaches superiorly where?

Answer 65

petrous part of temporal bone

Question 66

which is more anterior, levator veli palatini or tensor veli palatini?

Answer 66

tensor vali palatini

Question 67

name this muscle

Answer 67

tensor veli palatini

Question 68

name this structure

Answer 68

pterygoid hamalus

Question 69

name this muscle

Answer 69

levator veli palatini

Question 70

how is CN X clinically tested?

Answer 70

ask patient to say ahh, if nerves functioning normally then uvula will lift straight up in the midline if there is unilateral pathology the uvula will pull away from the non-functioning side

Question 71

functions of the soft palate 3

Answer 71

stop food entering nose directs air close off the entrance into the oropharynx during gag reflex

Question 72

what causes this ridge?

Answer 72

tensor veli palatini

Question 73

what is this space?

Answer 73

opening of eustachian tubes

Question 74

what causes this ridge?

Answer 74

levator veli palatini

Question 75

what causes this ridge?

Answer 75

salpingopharyngeus

Question 76

name this muscle

Answer 76

tensor veli palatini

Question 77

name this muscle

Answer 77

levator veli palatini

Question 78

name this muscle

Answer 78

salpingopharyngeus

Question 79

name this muscle

Answer 79

superior constrictor muscle

Question 80

name this muscle

Answer 80

palatopharyngeus

Question 81

name this muscle

Answer 81

middle constrictor muscle

Question 82

name this space

Answer 82

tonsillar crypt

Question 83

name this muscle

Answer 83

palatoglossus