1. What are the major components of the pharyngeal lymphatic (tonsillar) ring? Where do these components typically drain?

2. The hard palate is composed of which bones? What provides sensory innervation and arterial supply to this area?

3. What comprises the soft palate? What provides sensory innervation and arterial supply to this area? What is the palatine aponeurosis?

4. What are the 5 muscles of the soft palate? Attachments? Efferent innervation? Actions?

5. Where are the palatine tonsils located? What are the important anatomical associations to consider during tonsillectomies?

6. What are the walls/boundaries of the pterygopalatine fossa? What are the major structures located (or traveling through) this fossa?

7. What are the major branches of the maxillary n. (V2)? Are these branches motor, sensory, or both? What structures do these nerves innervate?

8. The pterygopalatine ganglion receives preganglionic parasympathetic fibers from what nerve? Which nerve(s) will carry the postganglionic parasympathetic fibers to their destination? To what gland do the postganglionic fibers travel?

9. What are the major branches of the maxillary a. associated with the pterygopalatine fossa? What structures do these arteries supply?

Recommended Readings

Moore et al. Clinically Oriented Anatomy. 7th edition. pgs. 934-938; 951-954