Pterygoid Fossa and Nose

Question 1

____ is in between the maxillary bone and greater wing of lateral pterygoid plate come together

Answer 1

Pterygopalatine fossa

Question 2

What is the duct of the parotid gland called?

Answer 2

Stetson’s duct

Question 3

What is the duct of the submandibular gland called?

Answer 3

Wharton’s duct

Question 4

What does maxillary artery turn into?

Answer 4

Sphenopalatine artery

Question 5

_____ nerve is preganglionic sympathetics to pterygopalatine fossa; joins deep petrosal canal to form vidian nerve

Answer 5

Greater petrosal nerve

Question 6

_____ nerve carries postganglionic sympathetic that goes thru the pterygopalatine canal

Answer 6

Deep petrosal nerve

Question 7

What 2 nerves innervate the nose and lacrimal gland?

Answer 7

Greater and deep petrosal nerves

Question 8

CN _____ provides motor to muscles of mastication, mylohyoid, anterior belly of digastric, TVP, and tensor tympani

Answer 8

CN V3

Question 9

CN ____ provides motor to stapedius, stylohyoid, and posterior belly of digastric

Answer 9

CN VII

Question 10

CN ____ provides motor to stylopharyngeus that assists with swallowing

Answer 10

CN IX

Question 11

Superior and intermediate turbinate are part of which bone?

Answer 11

Ethmoid

Question 12

Is inferior turbinate is its own bone or a part of the ethmoid?

Answer 12

Own bone

Question 13

____ is the ridge of bone that rises anterior to the ethmoid bone

Answer 13

Crista galli

Question 14

____ sets the middle of nose where septum comes anteriorly

Answer 14

Nasal crest

Question 15

What 2 bones does the nasal crest span?

Answer 15

Palatine and maxillary

Question 16

What are the 3 major functions of the nose?

Answer 16

Smell, clean air, and humidify air

Question 17

What is the place called where 90% of nosebleeds come from?

Answer 17

Kiesselbach area

Question 18

Which sinuses drain underneath middle concha in the semilunaris area?

Answer 18

Frontal, anterior ethmoid, and maxillary sinuses

Question 19

Which sinuses drain into the superior sinus?

Answer 19

Posterior ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses