Pharyngeal Arches Question And Answers
Question 1. Derivatives of 1 pharyngeal arch. (or) Derivaties of first pharnyngeal arches.
Answer:
- First pharyngeal arch is called manidbular arch.
Skeletal derivative:
- Dorsal part- Gives rise to incus and malleus.
- Ventral part – Surrounded by developing mandible.
- Part of it forms anterior ligament of the malleus and the sphenomandibular ligament.
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- Mesenchyme – Forms maxilla, mandible, zygomatic, bone, palatine bone and part of the temporal bone.
- Cartilage:
- Meckel’s cartilage.
- Muscles:
- Temporalis, masseter, medial and lateral pterygoid.
- Mylohoid.
- Anterior belly of diagastric.
- Tensor palatine, tensor tympani.
- Nerve: Mandibular division of trigeminal nerve.
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Question 2. Derivative of Second Pharyngeal Arch.
Answer:
Second Pharyngeal Arch Cartilage:
- Stapes
- Styloid process
- Stylohyoid ligament.
- Lesser cornua of hyoid bone.
- Superior part of body of hyoid bone.
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Second Pharyngeal Arch Muscles:
- Muscles of facial expression.
- Buccinator, auricularis, frontalis, platysma, orbicularis oris, orbicularis oculi.
- Posterior belly of disgastric.
- Stylohyoid.
- Stapedius.
- Nerve: facial nerve.
- Synonym: Hyoid arch.
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