palate, pterygopalatine fossa, paranasal structures

Question 1

what are turbinates

Answer 1

the things that stick out into the nasal cavities

Question 2

bones that form the pterygomaxillary fissure

Answer 2

maxillary on anterior side, pterygoid plate of sphenoid on the posterior side

Question 3

what ganglion is in the pterygomaxillary fissure? and what is a nerve that goes into there

Answer 3

a pterygopalatine ganglion and a petrosal nerve. look it up.

Question 4

if you have a pituitary tumor, how could you get in there to fix it

Answer 4

stick instruments up through the nose to the sella turcica

Question 5

what canal conects the pterygopalatine fossa to the nose

Answer 5

pterygoid canal

Question 6

what bone fits into the sphenoid?

Answer 6

ethmoid.

Question 7

what bones make the pterygopalatine fossa?

Answer 7

palatine bone on medial side, sphenoid posteriorly, maxilla anteriorly

Question 8

palatine canal contains what nerves

Answer 8

palatine nerves that go to posterior edge of the palate (not sure hard or soft)

Question 9

does he think that the palatovaginal groove is important?

Answer 9

not sure, its really small and its only purpose is for a litttttle blood vessel to nasopharynx

Question 10

what are the five canals from the pterygopalatine fossa

Answer 10

palatine, palatovaginal, pterygoid, sphenopalatine foramen, and infraorbital

Question 11

nerve through the sphenopalatine foramen?

Answer 11

nasal/nasopalatine nerve

Question 12

the sympathetics that run through the fossa come from?

Answer 12

superior cervical ganglion that turns into a plexus around the ICA

Question 13

do parasympathetics synapse in the peterygopalatine ganglion?

Answer 13

of course!!

Question 14

where do the pterygopalatine arteries come from?

Answer 14

maxillary. all of em.

Question 15

review: post synaptic parasympathetics to the lacrimal gland synapse where?

Answer 15

pterygopalatine ganglion.

Question 16

what nerve goes around the middle meningeal artery

Answer 16

auriculotemporal nerve

Question 17

what is the elusive venous plexous?

Answer 17

pterygoid venous plexus in the infratermporal fossa.

Question 18

what are some major veins that connect to the pterygoid plexus?

Answer 18

welp. i used to know this

Question 19

why do your teeth hurt when your sinus hurts?

Answer 19

the superior dental plexus nerves run on the inferior edge of the mucous memebrane of the maxillary sinus. when it swells those guys get mad

Question 20

meatus in your nose?

Answer 20

the groove underneath a nasal conche

Question 21

greater and lesser palatine nerves are branches of?

Answer 21

V2

Question 22

where does the external nasal branch come from?

Answer 22

anterior ethmoidal from V1 (remember the nasociliary gave off some branches to the nose?)

Question 23

sensory to the mucosa of the nose. CN?

Answer 23

V1/2

Question 24

besides V, what CN is in the nose?

Answer 24

don’t think too hard. olfactory

Question 25

lesser palatine nerve is sensory to?

Answer 25

SOFT palate.

Question 26

CN for sensory of palate?

Answer 26

V2. you know this stuff!!

Question 27

where does the maxillary sinus drain?

Answer 27

when you’re sick, your nose runs. all of the sinuses drain to the nose!!

Question 28

why do kids get ear infections?

Answer 28

the eustacian tube is horizontal between the ear and the nose. since theres not an incline, crap can get into the middle ear.

Question 29

why do you have turbinates?

Answer 29

it creates TURBulance to warm and moisten air

Question 30

space above the superior concha?

Answer 30

spheno-ethmoidal recess

Question 31

vomer is a part of what bone?

Answer 31

trick question!!! it is its own bone

Question 32

INFERIOR nasal concha is part of what bone?

Answer 32

another trick question!!! it is its own bone too

Question 33

SUPERIOR nasal conca is part of what bone?

Answer 33

ethmoid.

Question 34

what bones articulate with vomer?

Answer 34

palatine bones, ethmoid, maxilla. not sure if thats all of them

Question 35

where does the sphenoidal sinus drain.

Answer 35

into the nose, but it goes into the spheno-ethmoidal recess

Question 36

where does the frontal sinus empty? how does it get there?

Answer 36

to nose through ethmoidal bulla into middle meatus

Question 37

relationship of openings to maxillary sinus and frontal sinus

Answer 37

the ethmoidal bulla is superior and anterior to the opening for maxillary sinus

Question 38

where does nasolacrimal duct open?

Answer 38

beneath the inferior nasal conche

Question 39

special name for the space that has the openings for anterior ethmoidal cells

Answer 39

similunar hiatus

Question 40

your kid gets a pea stuck up their nose, so you look up there. what do you see.

Answer 40

a pea. on the other side, you should be able to see the inferior and middle conchae. NOT the SUPERIOR

Question 41

branches that go through sphenopalatine foramen go where?

Answer 41

both the septum AND the lateral wall of the nose

Question 42

5 main arteries that are going into the nose. name for this.

Answer 42

Kiesselbach area. anterior ethmoidal, posterior ethmoidal, sphenopalatine artery ( to lateral wall and septum), superior labial (from facial), greater palatine (from incisive canal)

Question 43

what is always on the boards?

Answer 43

Kiesselbach area

Question 44

CN that is posterior to sphenoid sinus

Answer 44

optic chiasm

Question 45

___ carries psy innervation to all the glands below the oral fissure

Answer 45

chorda tympani

Question 46

superior continuation of the nasal septum into the cranium

Answer 46

christa galli