Pharynx

Question 1

Three parts of pharynx

Answer 1

Oropharynx, laryngopharynx, nasopharynx

Question 2

Posterior aperture of nasal cavity

Answer 2

Choanae

Question 3

Between nasopharynx and oropharynx

Answer 3

Pharyngeal isthmus

Question 4

Soft palat is in the …

Answer 4

Oropharynx

Question 5

End of oral cavity

Answer 5

Oropharyngeal isthmus or isthmus of the fauces

Question 6

Pharyngotympanic tube connects

Answer 6

Eustachian tube or auditory tube, nasopharynx to the middle ear

Question 7

Pharynx bony attaches to skull

Answer 7

Pterygoid process of sphenoid bone, Petrous temporal bone, occipital bone + pharyngeal tubercle

Question 8

Attached to the styloid process

Answer 8

Stylohyoid m, styloglossus m, stylopharyngeal m stylohyoid lig, stylomandibular lig

Question 9

Constrictor muscles attachments

Answer 9

Superior constrictor = pharyngeal raphe, Pterygoidmadibular raphe, Pterygoidmadibular humulus, mandible
Middle constrictor = PR, grater and lesser horn of hyoid, stylohyoid lig
Inferior constrictor = PR, cricoid cartilage, thyroid cartilage, cricothyroid muscle

Question 10

Innervation of constrictor muscles

Answer 10

Vagus n

Question 11

Name longitudinal muscles w attachments

Answer 11

Stylopharyngeus (styloid process to pharyngeal wall), salpingopharyngeus (pharyngotympanic tube to PW) palatopharyngeus (palatine aponeurosis to PW)

Question 12

Innervation of longitudinal muscles

Answer 12

Vagus n, ex for stylopharyngeus

Question 13

Two parts of pharyngeal fascia

Answer 13

Buccopharyngeal fascia (outside muscles, of pretracheal layer) pharyngobasilar fascia (lines inside surface)