Axial Skeleton

Question 1

What are the bones of the skull?

Answer 1

28 bones that are extremely complex

Question 2

How are the skull bones connected?

Answer 2

Sutures (Interlocking, immovable joints)

Question 3

Most of the bones of the skull are flat bones and are formed by what ossification?

Answer 3

Intramembranous

Question 4

What suture is between the frontal and parietal bones?

Answer 4

Coronal suture

Question 5

What suture connects the parietal bones?

Answer 5

Saggital suture

Question 6

What suture connects the parietal and temporal bones?

Answer 6

Squamous suture

Question 7

What suture connects the occipital bone and parietal bones?

Answer 7

Lambdoid suture

Question 8

The area between the bones of the infant skull bones are called what?

Answer 8

Fontanelles

Question 9

What is premature fusion of the skull bones, which leads to unusual cranial vault shape?

Answer 9

Craniosynostosis

Question 10

The vault, or the what, forms the superior, lateral, and posterior bones of the skull, which includes the forehead?

Answer 10

Calvarium

Question 11

What are the eight bones of the cranium?

Answer 11

Frontal, two parietal, two temporal, occipital, ethmoid, and sphenoid

Question 11

The inferior part of the cranium is called the what?

Answer 11

Base

Question 12

What cranium bones make up most of the superior part of the skull and extend laterally and posteriorly?

Answer 12

Parietal bones

Question 13

What cranium bone is the posterior part of the cranium and the cranial base?

Answer 13

Occipital bone

Question 13

What two structures are in the occipital bone?

Answer 13

Foramen magnum and occipital condyles

Question 14

What part of the temporal bone is above the zygomatic arch? What part includes the external acoustic meatus? What part is best seen externally and contains the middle and inner ear cavities?

Answer 14

Squamous part, tympanic part, and petrous part

Question 15

The what of the temporal bone and the what of the mandible forms the TMJ joint?

Answer 15

Mandibular fossa, condyle

Question 15

The temporal bone contains what two structures?

Answer 15

Mastoid process and styloid process

Question 16

What are the three ear bones?

Answer 16

Malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes (stirrup)

Question 17

Sound waves cause vibrations of what bones that are transmitted to the inner ear?

Answer 17

Middle ear bones

Question 18

What is the only cranial bone to articulate with every other cranial bone?

Answer 18

Sphenoid

Question 19

The sphenoid bone has what landmark, which holds the pituitary gland?

Answer 19

Sella turcica

Question 20

Is the ethmoid or sphenoid bone more anterior?

Answer 20

Ethmoid

Question 21

What bone forms some boundaries of the nasal cavity and separates the nasal cavity from the brain?

Answer 21

Ethmoid bone

Question 22

What two structures does the ethmoid bone hold?

Answer 22

Cribriform plate and crista galli

Question 23

What part of the ethmoid bone helps form the roof of the nasal cavity and foramina allows passage of olfactory nerves into the brain?

Answer 23

Cribriform plate

Question 24

How many bones of the face are there?

Answer 24

14 bones

Question 25

What allows for tears to drain into the nasal cavity?

Answer 25

The lacrimal groove

Question 26

Orbital surface, alveolar processes, frontal process, and zygomatic process are all part of what facial bone?

Answer 26

Maxilla

Question 27

The superior and middle nasal conchae are part of what bone?

Answer 27

Ethmoid

Question 28

The maxilla bone articulates with every facial bone except for what?

Answer 28

The mandible

Question 29

What are the eight bones of the orbit?

Answer 29

Palatine, lacrimal, nasal, zygomatic, frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, and maxilla

Question 30

The maxillary bones and the palatine bone form what?

Answer 30

Hard palate

Question 31

What is it called when the two sides of the palate fail to come together, which which an opening between the mouth and nose is present, makes effective nursing difficult?

Answer 31

Cleft palate

Question 32

What is the function of the coronoid process of the mandible?

Answer 32

Serve as an attachment site for the temporalis muscle

Question 32

Mental protuberance, ramus, body, alveolar processes, mandibular foramen, mental foramen, mandibular symphysis, condyles, and coronoid processes are parts of what bone?

Answer 32

Mandible

Question 33

What is the chin called?

Answer 33

Mental protuberance

Question 34

Does the body or head grow faster first?

Answer 34

Head

Question 34

What is the function of the hyoid bone?

Answer 34

Serve as a base for the tongue and attachment sites for muscles that move the larynx

Question 34

What includes the thoracic vertebrae, ribs, sternum, and costal cartilages?

Answer 34

Thoracic cage

Question 35

What do the intercostal spaces do?

Answer 35

Hold muscles that aid in breathing

Question 36

The jugular notch, manubrium, sternal angle, body, xiphisternal joint, and xiphoid process are part of what bone?

Answer 36

Sternum

Question 37

What are the true ribs? What are the false ones? What are the floating ones?

Answer 37

1-7, 8-12, 11/12

Question 38

Head, tubercle, and shaft are parts of what bone?

Answer 38

Rib

Question 39

What does the tubercle of the rib articulate with on the vertebra?

Answer 39

Transverse process

Question 40

How many vertebrae are in the vertebral column?

Answer 40

26 vertebrae

Question 41

How many of each type of vertebrae are there?

Answer 41

Cervical - 7, thoracic - 12, lumbar - 5, sacrum - 5, coccyx -1

Question 42

Do spines regularly curve as it gives greater flexibility and positions the center of gravity over axis of body?

Answer 42

Yes

Question 43

What is lateral curvature of the spine called?

Answer 43

Scoliosis

Question 44

What is excessive curvature of the thoracic spine called?

Answer 44

Kyphosis

Question 45

What is excessive curvature of the lumbar spine?

Answer 45

Lordosis

Question 46

Body, vertebral foramen, vertebral arch, spinous process, transverse process, intervertebral foramen, and superior and inferior articular facets are all characteristics of what bones?

Answer 46

Vertebrae

Question 47

What is it called when you stack vertebrae?

Answer 47

Vertebral canal

Question 48

The spinous and transverse processes of vertebrae are used for what purpose?

Answer 48

Ligament and muscle attachment sites

Question 49

Transverse foramina, bifid spinous processes, and articular facets facing superior/inferior are characteristics of what vertebrae group?

Answer 49

Cervical

Question 50

What cervical vertebra has no body or spinous process and allows for flexion and extension of the head?

Answer 50

Atlas

Question 51

What cervical vertebra has the dens and allows for rotational movement of the head?

Answer 51

Axis

Question 52

What vertebrae group has costal facets, long spinous processes that project inferiorly, and articular facets that face anterior/posterior?

Answer 52

Thoracic vertebrae

Question 53

What vertebrae group has large bodies, short/flat spinous processes, and articular facets face medial/lateral?

Answer 53

Lumbar vertebrae

Question 54

What structure on the sacrum articulates with the hip bones to form the sacroiliac joint?

Answer 54

Ala