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Velum Flashcards

1
Q

What are styloid processes?

A

Two pen-tip like (Stylus) structures

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2
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Where do the styloid processes protrude from?

A

The bottom of the temporal bone

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3
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What muscles are the styloid processes the origin of?

A
  • Styloglossus m.
  • Stylopharyngeus m
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4
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As you grow, the styloid processes ___ ___.

A

stretch out

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5
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What is the mastoid process?

A

Two bulky protrusions

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6
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Where does the mastoid process protrude from?

A

base of temporal bone behind the ear

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7
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What inserts into the mastoid process?

A

Sternocleidomastoid

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8
Q

What are the 8 cranial bones?

A
  • frontal (1)
  • parietal (2)
  • temporal (2)
  • occipital (1)
  • sphenoid (1)
  • ethmoid
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9
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What do cranial bones make up?

A

cranium

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10
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What do facial bones make up?

A

face

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11
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What 2 bones is the cheekbone made up of?

A
  • temporal bone (back)
  • zygomatic bone (front)
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12
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What are the 8/14 facial bones we need to know?

A
  • maxilla (2)
  • mandible (1)
  • vomer (1)
  • zygomatic (2)
  • palatine (2)
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13
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What facial bones are part of the hard palette?

A

maxilla

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14
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What facial bones are the top jaw?

A

maxilla

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15
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What facial bone is the bottom jaw?

A

mandible

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16
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What are the palatine facial bones?

A

2 tiny bones go up and back against the maxilla

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17
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What facial bones are the back part of the hard palette?

A

palatine bone(s)

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18
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What facial bones are the top part of the nasal cavity?

A

palatine bone(s)

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19
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What is the nasal septum?

A

divider of one nostril from another

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20
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What facial bone sits atop the maxilla?

A

Vomer

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21
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What bone makes the nasal septum and cartilage?

A

ethmoid bone

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22
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What is the zygomatic arch?

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2 pieces of the temporal bone and zygomatic bone form the cheekbone

23
Q

What is the foramen magnum?

A

hole where your spinal cord that comes out

24
Q

What are the 3 major cavities?

A
  • oral
  • nasal
  • pharyngeal
25
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What is the velopharyngeal port?

A

connection point btw the nasal cavity and the pharyngeal cavity

26
Q

What 2 ports open in nasal sounds so that the airflow is allowed to go in the nasal cavity and all the vibrations will resonate w/in it?

A
  • nasopharyngeal port
  • velopharyngeal port
27
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What is the oropharyngeal isthmus?

A

narrow opening at the back of the oral cavity

28
Q

What does the oropharyngeal isthmus separate?

A

oropharynx from the oral cavity

29
Q

What is the oropharyngeal isthmus important for?

A

Swallowing (remains closed so food/liquid doesn’t enter the nasal cavity or the lungs)

30
Q

What are the 3 locations of pharyngeal constrictors?

A
  • superior
  • middle
  • inferior
31
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Where do the inferior pharyngeal constrictors attach to?

A

the thyroid cartilage

32
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Where do the middle pharyngeal constrictors attach to?

A

the hyoid cartilage

33
Q

Where do the superior pharyngeal constrictors attach to?

A

muscle at the top

34
Q

What are pharyngeal elevators?

A

A group of muscles in the pharynx

35
Q

What do pharyngeal elevators connect the nasal cavity to?

A
  • larynx
  • esophagus
36
Q

What are the muscles of the velopharyngeal port (VPP)?

A
  • Superior Constrictor
  • Tensor Palati
  • Levator Palati
  • Palatoglossus
  • Palatopharyngeus
37
Q

What is the origin of the superior constrictor?

A
  • sphenoid bone
  • ligament
    btw sphenoid and mandible
38
Q

Where does the superior constrictor insert?

A

Median raphé of the pharynx

39
Q

What is the function of the superior constrictor?

A

closing the velopharyngeal port

40
Q

Where is the innervation of the superior constrictor?

A
  • Pharyngeal Plexus
  • Vagus n. (motor)
41
Q

What is the Pharyngeal Plexus?

A

A complex network of nerves that innervates much of the pharyn

42
Q

What nerve supplies most fibres of the Pharyngeal Plexus?

A

vagus

43
Q

What nerve supplies sensory fibres to the Pharyngeal Plexus?

A

Glossopharyngeal

44
Q

What nerve supplies some motor fibres to the Pharyngeal Plexus?

A

Accessory

45
Q

What is the origin of the levator palati?

A
  • base of the skull (temporal bone)
  • base of eustachian tube
46
Q

Where does the levator palati insert?

A

middle of medial palate

47
Q

What is the function of the superior constrictor?

A

U-shaped muscular sling

48
Q

Where is the innervation of the levator palati?

A
  • Pharyngeal plexus
  • Vagus n. = CN X
49
Q

What is the origin of the tensor palati?

A
  • bottom of the sphenoid bone
  • bottom of Eustachian tube
50
Q

Where does the tensor palati insert?

A

sphenoid bone (pterygoid plate) fanning to form palatine aponeurosis

51
Q

What is the function of the tensor palati?

A
  • spreads out velum
  • tenses velum
52
Q

Where is the innervation of the tensor palati?

A

Trigeminal n.

53
Q

What is the only muscle of the palate not innervated by the pharyngeal plexus?

A

tensor palati

54
Q

The ___ ___ is above the ___ ___.

A

velopharyngeal port; pharyngeal isthmus

Ling 314 (10 decks)

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