Respiratory - Anatomy Flashcards
What is the role of the nose?
- Warm inspired air
- Humidify inspired air
- Filter inspired air: cilia in nose
What do the anterior nares open onto?
Nasal vestibule
What is the nasal vestibule?
Area lined with skin epithelium and hairs, just past nostrils.
What are turbinates/concha?
Sections of bone ion the nasal cavity
What are the 3 meatuses and what are the divided by?
- Superior, middle and inferior
- Separated by concha
What are the paranasal sinuses?
- Pneumatised ares (hollow/air-cell filled bone)
- Areas of the frontal, maxillary, ethmois and sphenoid bones.
Arranged in pairs at each side.
Describe the frontal sinus (including innervation)
- Made from the frontal bone
- Lie over orbit
- Innervated by the opthalmic division of the Trigeminal Nerve
Describe the maxillary sinus (including innervation)
- Made from body of maxilla
- Pyramidal shape
- Innervated by maxillary division of Trigeminal Nerve
- Roof: floor of orbit
- Floor: Alveolar process (bone with teeth sockets in)
- Opens into middle meatus
Describe the ethmoid sinus (including innervation)
- Lies between the eyes
- Innervated by the opthalmic and maxillary divisions of the Trigeminal Nerve
Describe the sphenoid sinus (including innervation)
- Innervated by the opthalmic branch of Trigeminal Nerve
Where does the pharynx begin and end?
Base of skull to cricoid cartilage (at C6)
What is the pharynx made up of?
- Nasopharynx
- Oropharynx
- Laryngeopharynx
Where does the nasopharynx go from and to?
Base of skull to soft palate
Where does the oropharynx go from and to?
Soft palate to superior border of epiglottis
Where does the laryngopharynx go from and to?
Superior border of epiglottis to cricoid cartilage (at C6)
What is the origin of the superior pharyngeal constrictor?
Pterigoid plate and pterygomandibular raphe
What is the origin of the middle pharyngeal constrictor?
Hyoid bone
What is the origin of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor?
Thyroid and cricoid cartilage
What are the pharyngeal constrictors innervated by?
Pharyngeal branch of vagus nerve
What is the function of the pharyngeal constrictors?
Contract sequentially to propel food to oesophagus
What are the 3 longitudinal pharyngeal muscles?
- Stylopharangeus
- Palatopharygeus
- Salpingopharyngeus
What is the origin of the stylopharyngeus muscle?
- Styloid process of frontal bone to pharynx
What is the function of the longitudinal pharyngeal muscles?
Shorten, widen and elevate the pharynx
What is contained within the carotid sheath?
- Carotid artery
- Jugular vein
- Vagus nerve
What epithelium lines the nasopharynx?
Respiratory epithelium - ciliated pseudo-stratified coloumnar with goblet cells
What epithelium lines the oropharynx and laryngopharynx?
Non-keratinised stratified squamous
Which part of the pharynx contains the eustachian tube and what is its role?
Nasopharynx - goes from here to middle ear, equalises air pressure.
What are the 3 unpaired cartilages of the larynx?
- Thyroid
- Cricoid
- Epiglottis
What are the 3 paired cartilages of the larynx?
- Cuneiform
- Corniculate
- Arytenoid
Where does the thyroid membrane go from and to?
Superior aspect of thyroid cartilage to hyoid bone
Where does the cricothyroid membrane go from and to?
Thyroid cartilage to cricoid cartilage
What are the extrinsic muscles of the larynx?
Suprahyoid, infrahyoid
What is the role of the suprahyoid muscles?
Elevate larynx
What is the role of the infrahyoid muscles?
Depress larynx
What is the role of the intrinsic muscles of the larynx?
Control shape of glottis and length of vocal cords
Name an intrinsic muscle of the larynx and its origins
Cricothyroid muscle from cricoid cartilage to thyroid cartilage
What does the superior laryngeal nerve split into?
Internal and external
What is the role of the internal laryngeal nerve?
Provides sensation for larynx
What is the role of the external laryngeal nerve?
Innervates the cricothyroid muscle (motor)
What is the role of the recurrent laryngeal nerve?
Innervates all muscles of the larynx except the cricothyroid (motor)
What is the afferent nerve in the cough reflex?
Internal branch of the superior laryngeal nerve
Where is the thyroid gland located?
Anterior neck, between C5-T1, wrapped around cricoid cartilage, below thyroid cartilage
What is the structure of the thyroid gland?
Left and right lobes joined by isthmus
What supplies the thyroid gland with blood?
Superior and inferior thyroid arteries