Viscerocranium Flashcards
The Treacher Collins Syndrome is due to bones defects (True/False)
False: it is due to bone and tissue defects.
Where do the viscerocranium, the mandible and the larynx develop from?
From the pharyngeal arches.
When do the main events in craniofacial morphogenesis occur?
Between the 4th and the 8th week. The face can be distinguished by the end of the second month.
When can we see the pharyngeal arches in the embryo? What do they give rise to?
During the 4th and 5th week. They are transient.
They give rise to bones in the cranium and pharynx as well as muscles of the face.
Main features in a 28 day embryo
Pharyngeal arches (face and neck), somites and optic and lens placodes.
Where does the mesenchyme in pharyngeal arches derive from?
From the CNCCs
What are pharyngeal arches composed of?
Cartilage, arteries, paraxial mesoderm (which will form striate muscle), cranial nerves, mesenchyme from CNCCs (which will form bone).
What do neural crest cells give rise to?
Structures such as ganglia, endocardial cushions, chromaffin cells, Schwann cells, melanocytes… but also bones and structures from the viscerocranium (which develop from the mesenchyme).
CNCCs from the forebrain migrate….
Anteriorly.
CNCCs of midbrain and hindbrain migrate…
To the pharyngeal arches.
CNCCs which migrate rostrally form the… which will develop into the…
FRONTONASAL PROMINENCE, FOREHEAD
CNCCs which migrate to the 1st PA form the…
Maxillary and mandibular prominences.
To which bones does the frontonasal prominence give rise to and how?
Frontal bone and part of the maxillary bone (primary palate) via membranous ossification.
To which bones does the mesenchyme of the maxillary prominence give rise to and how?
Squamous portion of the temporal bone, maxilla (secondary palate), palatine bone and zygomatic bone via membranous (direct) ossification.
To which bones does the mesenchyme of the mandibular prominence give rise to and how?
It gives rise to the mandible via membranous ossification.
What kind of ossification does skeleton which surrounds viscera in the neck undergo?
Either endochondral ossification or remain as cartilage.
Roof of the bony orbit
Frontal bone and lesser wing of the sphenoid
Lateral wall of the bony orbit
Zygomatic bone and greater wing of the sphenoid
Floor of the bony orbit
Maxillary bone, part of the zygomatic bone, orbital process of the palatine bone
Medial wall of the bony orbit
Lacrimal bone and orbital plate of the ethmoid bone
Foramina in the bony orbit
Supraorbital and infraorbital foramen, optic canal, superior orbital fissure, inferior orbital fissure, ethmoidal foramina and lacrimal groove.
Anatomical relation between the orbit and the maxillary sinus
The orbit is sitting on the maxillary sinus.
What is the anterior nasal aperture or piriform aperture formed of? (CROSS-SECTION)
- The centre: vomer and the ethmoid, which forms the superior and middle conchae, the uncinate process and the ethmoidal bulla with ethmoidal cells.
- The inferior conchae.
- The lateral wall: maxilla (which forms the anterior nasal spine), as well as the lacrimal, ethmoid and palatine bones.
What are the choanae?
Openings between the nasal cavities and the nasopharynx.
Lateral wall of choanae/posterior nasal aperture
Sphenoid bone
Medial wall of posterior nasal aperture/choanae
Vomer
Floor of posterior nasal aperture/Choanae
Palatine bone
Roof of posterior nasal aperture
Sphenoid bone
From which bone does the posterior nasal spine come from?
From the palatine bone
Foramen which is the main way of passage into the nasal cavity
Sphenopalatine foramen
Roof of the nasal cavity
Sphenoid, ethmoid bone (cribriform plate), frontal bone, nasal bones
Main function of Choncae
Increase surface of mucosa
Lateral walls of the nasal cavity
Frontal process of the maxilla, ethmoid bone (superior and middle conchae, uncinate process, ethmoidal bulla), lacrimal bone, perpendicular plate of the palatine bone.
Medial walls of the nasal cavity
Vomer, perpendicular plate of ethmoid, cartilaginous septum
What is the anterior cranial fossa (located above the nasal cavity) formed of?
- Middle part: crista galli and cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone
- Lateral part: frontal bone
Parts of the ethmoid bone
- Crista galli and cribiform plate
- Ethmoidal cells
- Orbital plate and perpendicular plate
- Superior and middle conchae
- Infundibulum
- Ethmoid bulla
- Uncinate process
What is the nasal placode?
Ectodermal thickening induced by the underlying forebrain that will originate the olfactory epithelium.
Apart from the frontal bone, the frontonasal prominence forms…
- Part of the tip of the nose
- Philtrum of lip (upper part of the lip)
- PRIMARY PALATE ( a part of the maxillary bone with 4 incisor teeth).
The primary palate derives from…
The frontonasal prominence