Tongue, Pharnyx, Oesophagus and stomach Flashcards
What are the extrinsic muscles of tongue?
Styloglossus
Hyoglossus
Genioglossus
where does styloglossus orginate?
styloid process
where does hyoglossus originate?
hyoid bone
where does genioglossus originate?
superior genial tubercles
what does styloglossus do
pulls tongue posterosuperiorly
what does hyoglossus do?
pulls tongue inferiorly
what does genioglossus do ?
pulls tongue anteriorly
what are intrinsic muscles of tongue?
Longtidunal
Vertical
Transverse
what does longitudinal muscles bundle into?
superior and inferior bundles
what does superior bundle do?
moves tip up
what does inferior bundle do
pulls tip inferiorly
what does vertical muscle do?
- thins tongue in superoinferior axis
- tongue flattens
- tongue widens along mediolateral and anteroposterior axis
What does transverse muscle do?
make tongue narrow, longer and thinner
What nerve supplies motor impulses to tongue muscles?\
Hypoglossal nerve, CN 12
How is tongue divided?
into anterior 2/3 and posterior 1/3
v shaped boundary on tongue?
Sulcus terminalis
Islands on tongue?
Circumvallate papillae
what is a branch of facial nerve?
Chorda tympani