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Head and Neck Block
Spaces & Passages
8
Anatomy
Kindergarten
09/29/2012

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Term
Opens into middle nasal meatus?
Definition

In semilunar hiatus:

   -Frontal sinus

   -Maxillary sinus

   -Anterior ethmoidal cells

-Middle ethmoidal cells (from ethmoidal bulla)

Term
Boundaries of infratemporal fossa
Definition

Ant  - Post. surface of maxilla

Post - tympanic part of temporal, mastoid process, & styloid process

Med - Lat. pterygoid plate

Lat   - Temporalis m. and mandible

Sup  - Infratemporal surface of greater wing of sphenoid

Inf   - Medial pterygoid m.  

Term
Parotid duct opens by what tooth?
Definition
Upper second molar tooth.
Term
What are the contents of the infratemporal fossa?
Definition

1. Insertion of temporalis muscle

2. Lateral and medial pterygord muscles

3. Pterygoid venous plexus

4. Maxillary a. and v.

5. Mandibular n. and branches

6. Chorda tympani

7. Otic ganglion

(note: masseter is not a content!)

Term
What are the passages related to the pterygoid fossa?
Definition

Sup./Post. - Foramen rotundum (V2)

Post. - Pterygoid canal (n. and a. of pterygoid canal)

Ant. - Inferior orbital fissure (zygomatic n. of V2)

Med. - Spenopalatine foramen (Sphenopalatine a., & V2 nasal branches)

Lat. - Pterygomaxillary fissure

Inf. - Greater palatine canal (greater palatine a. & n.)

Term
Sphenoidal sinus opens where?
Definition
Into the sphenoethmoidal recess.
Term
What opens into the superior nasal meatus?
Definition
The posterior ethmoidal cells
Term
What opens into the inferior nasal meatus?
Definition
The nasolacrimal duct. 
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