Head — Flashcards

Flashcard 81: _____ palate is supplied by ascending palatine branch of the facial artery, ascending pharyngeal artery and lesser palatine arteries.

Answer: Soft

Flashcard 82: _____ palate is mainly supplied by the greater (descending) palatine artery which is a branch of the third part of maxillary artery.

Answer: Hard

Flashcard 83: Lymphatics of the tongue:_____ part of anterior 2/3rd of tongue drains into B/L jugulodigastric and jugulo-omohyoid lymph nodes

Answer: Central

Flashcard 84: The **hiatus semilunaris** opens into a 3D space called the _____, which is bounded medially by the uncinate process and laterally by the lamina papyracea.

Answer: ethmoidal infundibulum

Extra: The ethmoidal infundibulum is a channel in the ethmoid bone that receives drainage from the anterior ethmoidal air cells and often the frontal sinus (via the frontonasal duct). Its anterior boundary is formed by the junction of the uncinate process with the lacrimal bone and the frontal process of the maxilla.

Flashcard 85: Cephalhematoma is a _____periosteal bleed, whereas subgaleal hematoma is a supraperiosteal bleed (supra/sub)

Answer: sub

Flashcard 86: Relations of parotid gland:Apex is directed _____ and is related to the posterior belly of the digastric and carotid triangle.

Answer: downwards

Flashcard 87: Sub_____ hemorrhage is bleeding in the potential space between the skull/periosteum/and the scalp/galea aponeurosis.

Answer: galeal

Flashcard 88: Foramen of the skull:The _____ nerve and greater petrosal nerve join to form the vidian nerve that passes through the pterygoid canal (present in the floor of sphenoid bone) and end at the pterygopalatine ganglion

Answer: deep petrosal

Flashcard 89: The optic _____ is formed by medially by the body and laterally by the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone.

Answer: canal

Flashcard 90: _____ of the mandible is caused by lateral pterygoid and suprahyoid muscles

Answer: Depression