The oral cavity 1 Flashcards
Whare are the roles of the alimentary system? (Hint there are 7)
- prehension of food
- mastication
- motility
- digestion
- absorption
- secretion
- expulsion
What is prehension?
- getting food into the mouth
What is mastication?
- mechanical break of food with teeth
What is deglutition?
- swallowing - food passes from oral cavity to oesophagus (voluntary then involuntary)
what is the Latin name for the upper lip?
- labia superius
What is the Latin name for the lower lip?
- labia inferius
What is the angle of the mouth called?
- angulus oris
What are the labial glands?
- small salivary glands around the mouth opening
what are the lips and cheeks made up of?
- outer integument
- middle muscular and fibroelastic
- inner mucosal layer
The oral (or buccal) cavity extends from… to ….
- from lips to pharynx entrance
What boundary describes the lips and cheeks?
- lateral/rostral
what boundary describes the hard palate?
- dorsal
What boundary describes the tongue and ventral mucosal surfaces?
- ventral
what boundary describes the palatoglossal arch?
- caudal
what is the vestibule?
- area between teeth and cheeks
what is the philtrum?
- the middle groove in the upper lip that runs from the top of the lip to the nose
What is the medial sulcus?
- divides the dorsum of the tongue into symmetrical halves
What is present on the hard palate?
- transverse ridges
What is the palatine raphe?
- the line that runs between the transverse ridges
Name the components that make up the oral cavity? (hint there are 9)
- tongue
- hard palate
- nasopharynx
- soft palate
- oropharynx
- epiglottis
- larynx
- oesophagus
- trachea
What component do horses have that other species don’t have?
- The guttural pouch
What are the muscles of prehension?
- zygomaticus
- Levator labii superioris
- Buccinator
- orbicularis oris
What does the zygomaticus muscle do?
- retract angle of mouth
What does the Levator labii superioris muscle do?
- elevates upper lip, draw to one side