Pharyngeal Arches Flashcards
How many clefts and pouches are found in a 5 week embryo?
4 clefts
4 pouches
Arch 1 skeletal components:
Meckel's Cartilage Maxilla Mandible Malleus Incus
Arch 2 skeletal components:
Ventral: Lesser horn and upper body of the hyoid
Dorsal: Styloid process and stapes
Arch 3 skeletal components:
Greater horn
Lower body of hyoid
Arch 4/6 skeletal components:
Both: Arytenoid Cartilage
4th: Thyroid cartilage
6th: Cricoid cartilage
Arch 1 Muscle Derivatives:
Muscles of Mastication
Anterior belly of digastric
Mylohyoid
Tensors
Arch 2 Muscle Derivatives:
Muscles of Facial Expression
Posterior belly of Digastric
Stylohyoid
Stapedius
Arch 3 Muscle Derivatives:
Only Stylopharyngeus
Arch 4 Muscle Derivatives:
Cricothyroid
Pharyngeal Constrictors
Levator Palatani
Arch 6 Muscle Derivatives:
Intrinsic muscles of the larynx
Arch 1 Nerves:
Trigeminal
Arch 2 Nerves:
Facial
Arch 3 Nerves:
Glossopharyngeal
Arch 4 Nerves:
Vagus
Superior Laryngeal
Arch 6 Nerves:
Recurrent Laryngeal