Palate

Question 1

What forms the hard palate?

Answer 1

Palatine process of maxillae, horizontal processes of palatine bones

Question 2

What is midline immediately posterior to the incisors?

Answer 2

Incisive fossa

Question 3

Where are the greate and lesser palatine foramina found?

Answer 3

Inferior margin of the perpendicular palatine bone

Question 4

What forms ridges in the muscosa of the anterior hard palate?

Answer 4

Transverse palatine folds (rugae)

Question 5

Found deep to the mucosa in both the hard palate and oral portion of the soft palate

Answer 5

Musus-secreting palatine glands

Question 6

Naming of the mucus on the superior surface of the soft palate

Answer 6

nasal mucosa

Question 7

Naming of the mucus on the inferior surface of the soft palate

Answer 7

Oral mucosa

Question 8

What is the soft palate conposed of?

Answer 8

Connective tissue and muscle covered in mucosa

Question 9

Attaches to the posterior margin of the hard palate and forms the connective tissue sheet of the soft palate

Answer 9

Palatine aponeurosis

Question 10

What makes up the bulk of the soft palate?

Answer 10

skeletal muscle

Question 11

Where are the palating tonsils located?

Answer 11

Between the palatoglossal and palatopharyngeal arches

Question 12

During swalloing, how is food prevented from entering the nasopharynx?

Answer 12

Soft palate elevates against the posterior wall of the pharynx

Question 13

Tendon of the tensor veli palatini

Answer 13

passes inferiorly around hamulus of the medial pterygoid plate and blends with the palatine aponeruosis

Question 14

2 muscles that attach to the auditory tube

Answer 14

Tensor veli palatini, levator veli palatini

Question 15

Elevates the soft palate

Answer 15

Levator veli palatini

Question 16

Pulls the tingue and soft palate toward each other during swallowing

Answer 16

Palatoglossus

Question 17

Draws the pharynx superiorly/anteriorly/medially during swallowing

Answer 17

Palatopharyngeus

Question 18

Shortens the uvula

Answer 18

Musculus uvulae

Question 19

What muscle is NOT innervated by the motor nerve of vagus nerve?

Answer 19

Tensor veli palatini

Question 20

What innervates the tensor veli palatini?

Answer 20

CNV3

Question 21

What innervates the sensory of the palate?

Answer 21

Branches of V2 via pterygopalatine

Question 22

Preganglionic parasympathetic innervation of pterygopalatine ganglion

Answer 22

Facial nerve via greater petrosal nerve

Question 23

Postganglion parasympathetic innervation of pterygopalatine ganglion

Answer 23

To mucosa for secretion

Question 24

Postganglion sympathetic via superior cervical ganglion to palate

Answer 24

Vasomotor to blood vessels of palate

Question 25

Blood supply of palate origin

Answer 25

3rd division of maxillary artery

Question 26

Portion of facial artery that supplies the palate

Answer 26

Ascending palatine branch

Question 27

Lymph from left side of head/neck drains into what?

Answer 27

Thoracic duct

Question 28

Lymph from right side of head/neck drains into what?

Answer 28

Joins right upper limb lymph via right jugular lymphatic trunk, then into the junction of right internal jugular vein/right subclavian vein