Head: The Palate (Exam 3)

Question 1

What are the bones that make up the pallate

Answer 1

palatine plates

maxilla

Question 2

What portion does the maxilla make up

Answer 2

palatine processes

Question 3

What portion does the palatine bones make up

Answer 3

horizontal plates

Question 4

What is the hole in the maxilla bone

Answer 4

incisive foramen

Question 5

What is the palate broken into

Answer 5

hard palate and soft palate

Question 6

Where is the hard palate located

Answer 6

anteriorly

Question 7

Where is the soft palate located

Answer 7

posteriorly

Question 8

What is Maxillary torus

Answer 8

extra bone formation of the maxilla

Question 9

What are the features of the soft palate

Answer 9

palatoglossal arch
palatopharyngeus arch
uvula
palatine tonsil

Question 10

What is the function of the uvula

Answer 10

prevents food from entering the nasal cavity when swallowing

Question 11

Where is the palatine tonsil found

Answer 11

between the palatoglossal arch and palatopharyngeal arch

Question 12

How is the soft palate formed

Answer 12

muscles that move the palate

Question 13

What muscles of the soft palate will help close the auditory tube while swallowing

Answer 13

tensor veli palatini

levator veli palatini

Question 14

Where is the palatoglossus muscle found

Answer 14

in the palatoglossal arch

Question 15

Where is the palatopharyngeus muscle found

Answer 15

palatopharyngeal arch

Question 16

What are the 5 muscles that will act on the palate

Answer 16

palatopharyngeous
palatoglossus
musculis uvulae
levator veli palatini
tensor veli palatini

Question 17

What are the 3 parts of the tensor veli palatini

Answer 17

ventrical: originating from scaphoid fossa and eustachian tube

fibrous part: inserting into palatine aponeurosis

tendon between breaks on the hamulus of the pterygoid

Question 18

What are the actions of the tensor veli palatini

Answer 18

Tense the palate

opens the pharyngotympanic tube (yawning or swallowing)

Question 19

What is the innervation of tensor veli palatini

Answer 19

CNV3 (via medial pterygoid nerve)

Question 20

What is the origin and insertion of levator veli palatini

Answer 20

petrous part of temporal bone

palatine aponeurosis

Question 21

What are the actions of the levator veli palatini

Answer 21

elevate the palate and prevent food from entering into nasopharynx

Question 22

What is the innervation of levator veli palatini

Answer 22

vagus (pharyngeal branch)

Question 23

How can levator veli palatini be tested clinically

Answer 23

Saying ah and seeing if it deviates

Deviates away from bad side (points toward good side)

Question 24

What is the origin and insertion of musculus uvulae

Answer 24

nasal spine of hard palate

CT of uvula

Question 25

What is the action of the musculus uvulae

Answer 25

elevates and retracts uvula | thickens central region of soft palate

Question 26

What is the innervation of the musculus uvulae

Answer 26

vagus (pharyngeal branch)

Question 27

What is the origin and insertion of palatopharyngeus

Answer 27

superior palatine aponeurosis | pharyngeal wall

Question 28

What is the action of the palatopharyngeus

Answer 28

depress soft palate | elevate pharynx

Question 29

What is the innervation of the palatopharyngeus muscle

Answer 29

vagus nerve (pharyngeal branch)

Question 30

What is the origin and insertion of palatoglossus

Answer 30

palatine aponeurosis | lateral margin of the tongue

Question 31

What are the actions of palatoglossus

Answer 31

elevate the tongue | depress the soft palate

Question 32

What is the innervation of palatoglossus

Answer 32

vagus nerve (pharyngeal branch)

Question 33

What will the nasopalatine nerve supply

Answer 33

the anterior portion of the hard palate

Question 34

What is nasopalatine nerve a branch from

Answer 34

CNV2

Question 35

Where does the nasopalatine nerve pass through

Answer 35

incisive foramen

Question 36

What do the greater and lesser palatine nerves supply

Answer 36

mucosa of the posterior hard and soft palate

Question 37

What doe the greater and lesser palatine nerves enter through

Answer 37

greater and lesser palatine foramina

Question 38

What does the lesser palatine nerve supply

Answer 38

mucosa and glands of the soft palate

Question 39

What does the greater palatine nerve supply

Answer 39

mucosa and glands of the hard palate

Question 40

Where does autonomic innervation to the palate come from

Answer 40

PPG-parasymp | Superior cervical ganglion-symp

Question 41

What nerve will supply parasympathetic innervation to the nasal and oral cavity

Answer 41

facial nerve

Question 42

What does the nasopalatine artery arise from

Answer 42

maxillary artery

Question 43

What does the palatine branch arise from

Answer 43

ascending pharyngeal artery

Question 44

What arteries supply the palate

Answer 44

ascending palatine artery palatine branch descending palatine artery

Question 45

Where will veins of the palate drain

Answer 45

pterygoid plexus | pharyngeal plexus

Question 46

Where will lymph from the palate drain

Answer 46

level II then deep cervical lymph nodes