Anatomy (Sway 1)

Question 1

What connects the inner and outer laminate of compact bone in the skull and what does it contain?

Answer 1

Spongy bone (Diploe) contains red bone marrow

Question 2

The highlighted region on the diagram is part of the temporal bone, what is it’s specific name?

Answer 2

Petrous part

Question 3

The cranium can be divided into what 2 parts?

Answer 3

The skull cap (calvarium) and the facial skeleton

Question 4

What is highlighted in pink and what does it connect the parietal bone to?

Answer 4

The Saggital suture connects the 2 parietal bones to each other

Question 5

What is the pink highlighted area called and what does it connect?

Answer 5

Lambdoid sutures connects the occipital bone and the parietal bones

Question 6

Below is a posterior view of the skull, what is the highlighted green area on the left called and what is it a part of?

Answer 6

The occipital condyles are part of the occipital bone

Question 7

What is the name given to the big red circle area in the middle of the below image

Answer 7

The pterion

Question 8

What is highlighted in pink below?

Answer 8

The mastoid part of the temporal bone

Question 9

What is highlighted in pink below?

Answer 9

The squamous part of the temporal bone

Question 10

What is highlighted in pink below?

Answer 10

The tympanic part of the temporal bone

Question 11

What is highlighted in pink below?

Answer 11

Styloid process of the temporal bone

Question 12

Which part of the temporal bone contains the inner and middle ear?

Answer 12

The Petrous part

Question 13

What is the name of the red area circled in pink?

Answer 13

The external auditory meatus

Question 14

What is the small area circled in pink called?

Answer 14

Stylomastoid foramen

Question 15

What is the name of the piece of cartilage anterior to your external auditory meatus?

Answer 15

Tragus

Question 16

Name the part of the sphenoid bone highlighted in pink:

Answer 16

Greater wing of the sphenoid bone

Question 17

Name the part of the sphenoid bone highlighted in pink:

Answer 17

Lesser wing of the sphenoid bone

Question 18

Name the part of the sphenoid bone highlighted in pink:

Answer 18

Body of the sphenoid bone

Question 19

Name the part of the sphenoid bone highlighted in pink:

Answer 19

Pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone

Question 20

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 20

Hypoglossal canal

Question 21

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 21

Jugular foramen

Question 22

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 22

Foramen lacerum

Question 23

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 23

Carotid canals

Question 24

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 24

Foramen ovale

Question 25

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 25

Foramen spinosum

Question 26

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 26

Greater and lesser palatine foramina

Question 27

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 27

Incisive fossa

Question 28

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 28

Stylomastoid foramen

Question 29

What can be seen highlighted in pink and what lodges there?

Answer 29

Sella turcica lodges the pituitary gland

Question 30

What structure can be seen highlighted below and what runs through it?

Answer 30

Optic canals, the optic nerves and ophthalmic arteries run through it

Question 31

What are the 2 fissures highlighted below?

Answer 31

Superior orbital fissure (1) , Inferior orbital fissure (2)

Question 32

What foramen of the skull is indicated below?

Answer 32

Foramen rotundum

Question 33

What 2 structures (left and right) are shown in green below and what do they do?

Answer 33

The tentorium cerebelli separate the occipital lobe from the cerebellum and brainstem

Question 34

What are the 3 meninges and the spaces separating them going from outermost to innermost.

Answer 34

Dura mater, subdural space, arachnoid mater, subarachnoid space, pia mater

Question 35

What are the 2 parts of the dura mater?

Answer 35

The outer endosteal layer and the inner meningeal layer

Question 36

What is the green area and what does it do?

Answer 36

The falx cerebelli is a small vertical fold of dura between the 2 cerebral hemispheres

Question 37

What is the highlighted green area called?

Answer 37

Falx cerebri

Question 38

What is the vein that runs along the top of the highlighted area and what landmark does it being at?

Answer 38

The superior Sagittal sinus begins at the crista galli

Question 39

What 2 veins are shown?

Answer 39

Sigmoid sinus

Question 40

The highlighted veins pass through various cranial openings to connect venous sinuses, what are they called?

Answer 40

Emissary veins

Question 41

Label the highlighted area.

Answer 41

Pyramids of the medulla

Question 42

Label the highlighted area.

Answer 42

Olives of the medulla oblongata

Question 43

Label the highlighted area.

Answer 43

Medulla oblongata

Question 44

Label the highlighted area.

Answer 44

Lateral sulcus

Question 45

Label the highlighted area.

Answer 45

Central sulcus

Question 46

Label the highlighted area.

Answer 46

Precentral gyrus

Question 47

Label the highlighted area.

Answer 47

Postcentral gyrus