SKELETAL SYSTEM OF A CAT

Question 1

The skeleton of the cat is bony except for the __________________________ making up the sterna

Answer 1

COASTAL CARTILAGES

Question 2

TRUE OR FALSE: Sterna is made up of bones.

Answer 2

FALSE, they are made up of coastal cartilages

Question 3

Component of axial skeleton

Answer 3

SKULL
HYOID APPARATUS
MANDIBLE
VERTEBRAL COLUMN
RIBS
STERNUM

Question 4

It exhibits numerous sutures that are sites of articulation between adjacent bones and aid in demarcating their boundaries.

Answer 4

SKULL

Question 5

A pair of bones forming the lower boundary of the external nares. Each bone bears three small incisor teeth.

Answer 5

PREMAXILLARY BONES

Question 6

Long pointed bone located posterior to each external nares.

Answer 6

NASAL BONES

Question 7

Each of these two bones lies lateral to a nasal bone and bears five teeth.

Answer 7

MAXILLARY BONES

Question 8

They make up the greater part of the upper jaw and palate.

Answer 8

MAXILLARY BONES

Question 9

A pair of large bones forming the anterior part of the skull and a large portion of the medial wall of each orbit.

Answer 9

FRONTAL BONES

Question 10

Each frontal bones has a laterally projecting

Answer 10

POST-ORBITAL PROCESS

Question 11

Each of these two bones bounds the orbit laterally and forms a part of the zygomatic arch

Answer 11

MALAR (JUGAL) BONES

Question 12

Each __________________ has a post-orbital process that extends upward toward the postorbital process of the frontal bone on that side and a ventrocaudally directed zygomatic process.

Answer 12

MALAR BONE

Question 13

PAIR OF BONES LOCATED IN THE POSTEROLATERAL REGION OF THE SKULL

Answer 13

PARIETAL BONES

Question 14

Each articulates anteriorly with a frontal bone and meet its mate in the mid-dorsal line.

Answer 14

PARIETAL BONES

Question 15

A single median triangular bone located between the posterior parts of the two parietal bones.

Answer 15

INTERPARIETAL BONES

Question 16

These large flat bones are located, one on each side of the skull, ventral to the parietal bones.

Answer 16

SQUAMOSAL BONES

Question 17

Temporal bones

Answer 17

SQUAMOSAL BONE, TYMPANIC AND PETROUS

Question 18

Squamosal gives rise to a

Answer 18

ZYGOMATIC PROCESS

Question 19

part of the occipital bone located posterior to the parietals

Answer 19

SUPRAOCCIPITAL BONE

Question 20

Anterior of the two large cavities formed between the frontal bone and the zygomatic arch

Answer 20

ORBIT

Question 21

The posterior of the two cavities. It is partially separated from the orbit by the post orbital processes of the malar and frontal bones.

Answer 21

TEMPORAL FENESTRAE

Question 22

Small bone on each side that makes up the anteromedial wall of the orbit.

Answer 22

LACRIMAL BONES

Question 23

Each of these two small bones is a part of the ethmoid. It lies between the lacrimal and frontal bones

Answer 23

PLANUM BONES

Question 24

A transverse crest extending across the upper part of the occipital bone.

Answer 24

LAMBOIDAL RIDGE

Question 25

A midline ridge that extends vertically along the interparietal and supraoccipital bone.

Answer 25

SAGITTAL CREST

Question 26

Thin-walled rounded eminence located ventral to the squamosal. It is the tympanic part of the temporal bone.

Answer 26

TYMPANIC BULLA

Question 27

Outer region of the petrous portion of the temporal bone. Somewhat triangular and projects antero-ventrally adjacent to the tympanic bulla, terminating just posterior to its opening.

Answer 27

MASTOID BONE

Question 28

VENTRAL TIP OF THE MASTOID

Answer 28

MASTOID PROCESS

Question 29

The teeth of the cat is made up of

Answer 29

three incisors, one canine, 3 premolars, and one molar

Question 30

each bone of this pair lies behind the maxillary and along with part of the maxillary, forms the hard plate, which makes up most of the roof of the mouth.

Answer 30

PALATINE BONES

Question 31

UNPAIRED BONE THAT FORMS THE POSTERIOR PART OF THE NASAL SEPTUM AND THE ROOF OF THE POSTERIOR PART OF THE NASAL CAVITY.

Answer 31

VOMER

Question 32

A SMALL ELONGATED BONE THAT LIES ON THE MIDLINE BEHIND THE VOMER, AND FORMS PART OF THE ROOF OF THE PHARYNX.

Answer 32

PRESPHENOID BONE

Question 33

PROCESS OF THE PRESPHENOID BONE, WHICH CAN BE SEEN IN THE POSTEROMEDIAL WALL OF THE ORBIT.

Answer 33

ORBITOSPHENOID BONE

Question 34

UNPAIRED MIDLINE BONE LYING BEHIND PRESPHENOID

Answer 34

BASISPHENOID BONE

Question 35

WING-LIKE PART OF THE SPHENOID BONE LOCATED ON THE MEDIAL WALL OF THE TEMPORAL FOSSA

Answer 35

ALISPHENOID BONE

Question 36

TRANSVERSE DEPRESSION LATERAL TO THE ALISPHENOID. IT IS THE CONCAVITY ON THE MEDIAL SURFACE OF THE ZYGOMATIC PROCESS

Answer 36

MANDIBULAR FOSSA

Question 37

BROAD UNPAIRED BONE THAT IS PRESENT ALONG THE MIDLINE AND EXTENDS FROM THE BASISPHENOID TO THE FORAMEN MAGNUM

Answer 37

BASIOCCIPITAL BONE

Question 38

PART OF THE OCCIPITAL BONE; EXTENDS MEDIALLY TO FORM THE ANTEROLATERAL BOUNDARY OF THE FORAMEN MAGNUM

Answer 38

EXOCCIPITAL BONE

Question 39

ovoid prominence that articulates with the atlas or first cervical vertebra

Answer 39

OCCIPITAL CONDYLE

Question 40

LARGE BONE OCCUPYING NASAL CAVITY

Answer 40

ETHMOID BONES

Question 41

A SERIES OF SCROLL-SHAPED BONES IN ETHMOID BONES, WHICH ARE ON EACH SIDE

Answer 41

ETHMOTURBINALS

Question 42

MEDIAL UNPAIRED VERTICAL PLATE THAT FORMS PART OF THE NASAL SEPTUM

Answer 42

MESETHMOID

Question 43

WHAT SEPARATES THE NASAL AND CRANIAL CAVITIES?

Answer 43

HORIZONTAL CRIBRIFORM PLATE

Question 44

A SHELF BONE PROJECTING INTO THE CRANIAL CAVITY; IT PARTILLY SEPARATES THE CEREBRAL AND CEREBELLAR FOSSAE.

Answer 44

TENTORIUM

Question 45

DEPRESSION IN THE BASISPHENOID BONE THAT HOUSES THE PITUITARY GLAND

Answer 45

HYPOPHYSEAL FOSSA

Question 46

BONY FLOOR OF THE FOSSA

Answer 46

SELLA TURCICA

Question 47

THE CAVITY WITHIN THE BASISPHENOID LOCATED ANTERIOR TO THE HYPOPHYSEAL FOSSA

Answer 47

SPHENOID SINUS

Question 48

CAVITY WITHIN EACH FRONTAL BONE

Answer 48

FRONTAL SINUS