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Base of Skull Flashcards

1
Q

How do the bones of the hard palate come together?

A

Articulation is by sutures - fibrous joints

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What are the parts of the palatine bone?

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Premaxilla, palatine bone, horizontal plate, pyramidal process

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3
Q

What passes through the incisive foramen?

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Incisive branch of nasopalatine nerve

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4
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What is transmitted through the greater and lesser palatine foramen?

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The greater and lesser palatine vessels and nerves

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5
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What attaches to the posterior nasal spine?

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Soft palate muscles

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6
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What is the maxillary tuberosity?

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The rounded end of the maxillary dental arch

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7
Q

What attaches to the lateral pterygoid plate?

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Lateral and medial pterygoid muscles

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What attaches to the pterygoid hamulus?

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The superior pharyngeal constrictor

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9
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What forms the groove for the auditory canal?

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The cartilagenous auditory tube

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10
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What attaches to the scaphoid fossa?

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Tensor veli palatine muscle (this is part of its origin)

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What fills the interpterygoid fossa?

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The belly of the tensor veli palatini

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12
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What is transmitted through the foramen ovale?

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The mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve (V3) and the lesser petrosal nerve

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13
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What transits through the foramen spinosum?

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Middle meningeal artery

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14
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What attaches to the spine of the sphenoid?

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Sphenomandibular ligament

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15
Q

What passes through the foramen lacerum?

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NOTHING! Nothing passes directly through it

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16
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What direction is the pterygoid canal, and what passes through it ?

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It runs anteriorly, and it transmits the nerve of the pterygoid canal

17
Q

What passes through the pharyngeal canal?

A

The pharyngeal branch of V2

18
Q

What originates in the infratemporal surface of the sphenoid?

A

The superior head of the lateral pterygoid muscle

19
Q

What does the vomer bone form?

A

The posterior part of the nasal septum

20
Q

What does the vertical plate of the palatine bone form?

A

Part of the lateral nasal wall

21
Q

What is the site of the mandibular condyle at rest?

A

The glenoid fossa

22
Q

Where will the condyle rest when it is translating?

A

Against the articular eminence

23
Q

What is the attachment site of the lateral ligament of the TMJ?

A

The articular tubercle

24
Q

What attaches to the petrotympanic fissure posteriorly?

A

The capsule of the TMJ

25
Q

What does the postglenoid tubercle do?

A

It limits retrusion of the mandibular condyle

26
Q

What is the anterior wall of the external acoustic meatus?

A

The tympanic plate

27
Q

What is the function of the tympanic plate?

A

It limits retrusion in the TMJ

28
Q

What attaches to the styloid process?

A

2 ligaments
3 muscles

The stylohyoid ligament, stylomandibular ligament, styloglossus, stylohyoid, and stylopharyngeus muscles

29
Q

Where is the carotid canal, and what passes through it?

A

The carotid canal is contained in the temporal bone, and the internal carotid artery passes into it

30
Q

Where is the jugular foramen located?

A

Between the temporal and occipital bones

31
Q

What will the occipital condyles articulate with?

A

The first cervical vertebra, the atlas

32
Q

What is transmitted through the hypoglossal canal?

A

The hypoglossal nerve - cranial nerve XII

33
Q

What is the basiocciput?

A

The anterior midline section of the occipital bone

34
Q

What is the pharyngeal tubercal a part of?

A

Part of the attachment for the superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle

35
Q

What is the condylar canal for?

A

It is for a communicating vein called the emissary vein

Head and Neck Anatomy (8 decks)

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