Neck: Soft Palate

Question 1

Tensor Palati Origin

Answer 1

Scaphoid fossa & Spine of sphenoid bone

Question 2

Tensor Palati insertion

Answer 2

It hooks medially around pterygoid hamulus to form Palatine Aponeurosis

Question 3

Tensor Palati Action

Answer 3

Makes the soft palate tense

Question 4

Levator Palati origin

Answer 4

petrous bone in front of carotid canal & Auditory Tube

Question 5

Levator Palati Insertion

Answer 5

Palatine Aponeurosis

Question 6

Levator Palati Action

Answer 6

elevation of soft palate

Question 7

Palatoglossus Origin

Answer 7

Palatine aponeurosis

Question 8

Palatoglossus Insertion

Answer 8

Sides of Posterior part of tonuge

Question 9

Palatoglossus Action

Answer 9

Elevation of Tongue and closure of oropharyngeal ithmus

Question 10

Palatopharyngeus Origin

Answer 10

Palatine aponeurosis

Question 11

Palatopharyngeus Insertion

Answer 11

posterior border of thyroid cartilage

Question 12

Palatopharyngeus Action

Answer 12

elevation/ shortening of Pharynx

Question 13

Musculus uvulae origin

Answer 13

• Posterior Nasal spine
• Palatine aponeurosus

Question 14

Musculus uvulae Insertion

Answer 14

Mucousa of uvulae

Question 15

Musculus uvulae Action

Answer 15

Elevation & retraction of uvulae, preventing eversion of soft palate

Question 16

Motor innervation of soft palate

Answer 16

Pharyngeal Plexus (cranial root of accessory Nerve through Pharyngeal branch of vagus N)

• Except Tensor palati: which is supplied by Anterior division of mandibular Nerve through Nerve to medial pterygoid

Question 17

Sensory Innervation of Soft Palate

Answer 17

• Lesser palatine N (branch of Greater palatine N of sphenopalatine ganglion)
• Glossopharyngeal N

Question 18

Hard palate blood supply

Answer 18

Greater palatine Artery

Question 19

Soft palate blood supply

Answer 19

• Lesser palatine Artery (from greater palatine A)
• Ascending palatine Artery (from Facial A cervical part)
• Ascending Pharyngeal A (from External Carotid A)