Lacrimal Gland
What is the location of the lacrimal glands and ducts?
Lacrimal fossa of the frontal bone
What are the three major salivary glands?
Parotid, submandibular and sublingual
What does the thyroid gland produce and secrete?
Thyroxine.
What hormone does the parathyroid gland secrete?
Parathyroid hormone.
Which cells mature in the thymus gland in response to thymus hormones?
T-cell lymphocytes and White Blood Cells
What does the lacrimal gland ultimately drain into?
Inferior nasal meatus
Where dose the lymph drain from the parotid salivary glands?
Deep parotid nodes
What is the function of thyroxine?
What does the parathyroid gland regulate?
Phosphorous and calcium levels.
What happens to the thymus as you begin to mature?
It stops growing after puberty and nearly disappears at adult hood.
The lacrimal gland is innervated by which cranial nerve?
Greater petrosal nerve of the seventh cranial nerve and lacrimal nerve (trigeminal nerve).
What nerve innervates the submandibular and sublingual glands?
Chorda tympani of the seventh cranial nerve
What connects the two lateral lobes of the thyroid?
The isthmus.
Where is the parathyroid gland located?
The parathyroid is composed 4 individual glands within the thyroid gland; located on the posterior surface.
Name a difference in an extraoral exam between the thyroid and thymus?
The thymus may not be easily palpated; However the thyroid can be palpated easily.
What is the blood supply for the lacrimal gland?
The lacrimal artery; Superior ophthalmic vein
What is the blood supply for the parotid salivary glands?
Branches of external carotid artery; Retromandibular vein.
Where is the thyroid located?
Inferior to the hyoid, junction of the larynx and trachea.
What nerve innervates the parathyroid glands?
Where is the location of the thymus?
In the thorax, inferior to the hyoid bone, superficial and lateral to the trachea and deep to the sternum.
Why does the nose run when you cry?
Lacrimal fluid passes over the surface of the eye, into the nasolacrimal sac, continuing into the nasolacrimal duct, and finally drains into the inferior nasal meatus.
What is the location of the minor salivary glands?
Buccal, labial, lingual mucosa, soft and hard palate, floor of the mouth and base of the circumvallate lingual papillae.
Where is the blood supply for the thyroid gland?
Superior and inferior thyroid arteries, possibly the thyroid ima artery; Superior middle and inferior thyroid veins.
True or False? The parathyroid glands have the same lymphatic drainage and blood supply as the thyroid gland?
True.
What is the blood supply of the thymus?
Inferior thyroid and internal thoracic arteries; Vein in the posterior surface of gland that run directly into innominate vein.