Week 4: Anatomy of Upper respiratory and Upper digestive tract

Question 1

Oral and nasal cavities open into?

Answer 1

PHARYNX

Question 2

Nasal cavities extent

Answer 2

Nostrils to choanae

Question 3

Medial wall of nasal cavaties?

Answer 3

nASAL SEPTUM - cartilage and 2 bones

Question 4

Floor of nose? (2)

Answer 4

Maxilla and palatine bone (hard palate)

Question 5

Roof of nose? (4)

Answer 5

Nasal bone, frontal bone, ethmoid bone, sphenoid bones

Question 6

Anterior pear shaped bony opening called?

Answer 6

Piriform aperture

Question 7

nasal cavity features

Answer 7

lined with blood-vessel rich mucous membrane

Question 8

Drains into superior meatus?

Answer 8

Ethmoidal sinus (some)

Question 9

Drains into Sphenoethmoidal recess?

Answer 9

Sphenoidal sinus

Question 10

Drains into middle meatus?

Answer 10

Frontal, ehtmoidal, maxillary sinus

Question 11

Drains into inferior meatus?

Answer 11

Nasolacrimal duct - tears from eye

Question 12

Oral cavity boundaries (extends)

Answer 12

Extends from oralfissure to oropharyngeal isthmus - pharynx posterior

Question 13

Oral cavity roof

Answer 13

hard palate (maxilla + palatine), soft palate and uvula

Question 14

What marks division of anter 2/3 and posterior 1.3 tongue?

Answer 14

Sulcus terminalis

Question 15

Which salivary glands is located entirely outside oral cavity?

Answer 15

parotid

Question 16

Which salivary glands is located inside and outside oral cavity?

Answer 16

Submandibular

Question 17

Which salivary glands is located inside oral cavity?

Answer 17

Sublingual

Question 18

Which salivary glad is located medial to anterior part of mandible?

Answer 18

Subingual

Question 19

Which salivary gland is hook shaped?

Answer 19

Submandibular

Question 20

Where does parotid drain?

Answer 20

Via parotid duct - penetrates cheek muscles - opens adjacent to 2nd upper molar

Question 21

Where does submandibular drain?

Answer 21

Via submandibular duct - sublingual papillae

Question 22

Pharynx extent

Answer 22

Choanae to larynx - base skull to CV6

Question 23

Nasopharyx extent

Answer 23

choanae to soft palate

Question 24

Oropharynx extent

Answer 24

Soft palate to epiglottis

Question 25

Laryngopharynx

Answer 25

Epiglottis - larynx / oesophagus

Question 26

Nasopharynx features

Answer 26

Pharyngeal tonsil, opening for auditory tube

Question 27

Oropharynx internal features

Answer 27

tip of epiglottis and palatine tonsils

Question 28

Nasopharynx internal features

Answer 28

piriform fossae

Question 29

Space between vestibular and vocal folds?

Answer 29

Laryngeal ventricle

Question 30

Space beyween vocal folds?

Answer 30

Rima glottidis

Question 31

Where are parathyroid glands located?

Answer 31

Posterior to thyroid

Question 32

Hormone of thyroid?

Answer 32

Thyroid hormone - metabolism

Question 33

Parathyroid hormone

Answer 33

PTH - regulates plasma calcium levels

Question 34

what is posterior to the oropharynx

Answer 34

middle & superior constrictor muscles of pharynx

Question 35

what is posterior to laryngopharynx

Answer 35

middle and inferior pharyngeal constrictors