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What is the Calvaria?

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Upper portion of skull

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What is the function of the Hyoid Bone?

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Attachment for tongue, and neck muscles

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What are Auditory Ossicles?

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Inner ear - amplify and transfer sound

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What are the three types of Auditory Ossicles?

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Malleus, Incus, Stapes

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What is the Hyoid Bone?

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A bone that supports the tongue and is located in the neck

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What is the frontal bone, and what suture is it fused by?

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Single bone- fused by the coronal suture

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What does the frontal bone contribute to?

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  • forehead
  • anterior roof of cranium
  • portion of nasal cavity
  • superior arch of bony orbits
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Supraorbital margin

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Bone ridge over eyes

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Parietal bones and what suture they are fused by?

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Two separate bones fused with the sagittal suture

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Regions of the temporal bone

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  • petrous region
  • mastoid region
  • squamous region
  • tympanic region
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What is apart of the petrous region

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  • internal auditory canal
  • carotid canal
  • jugular foramen
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What does the jugular foramen allow?

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Allows for drainage

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What is apart of the mastoid region?

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Mastoid process

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What is the mastoid process

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Hallow (mastoiditis) process used for muscle attachment

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What is apart of the Squamous region

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  • Zygomatic process
  • mandibular fossa - TMJ articulation
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What is apart of the tympanic region

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  • styloid process
  • External auditory canal
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What is the styloid process used for

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Attachment for muscles

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Parts of the occipital bone

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  • foramen magnum
  • occipital condyles
  • superior/inferior nuchal lines
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What is the foramen magnum used for?

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It is the opening for the spinal cord

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What do the occipital condyles articulate with?

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It articulates with the Atlas (C1)

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What are the superior/inferior nuchal lines?

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Horizontal ridges used for muscle attachments

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What are 8 parts of the Sphenoid bones

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1) optic foramen
2) sella turcica
3) foramen rotundum
4) foramen lacerum
5) foramen ovale
6) foramen spinosum
7) superior orbital fissure
8) sphenoidal sinuses

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Where is the foramen lacerum located?

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Between temporal, sphenoid, and occipital bones

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Where do the sphenoidal sinuses drain?

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It drains into the nasal cavity

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Parts of the Ethmoid bone
1) crista galli 2) cribiform plate 3) perpendicular plate 4) superior nasal conchae (turbinates) 5) middle nasal conchae (turbinates) 6) Ethmoidal sinuses
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What is the crista galli an attachment for?
It is a attachment for falx cerebra (R&L portions)
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What is the cribiform plate used for?
Has numerous foramina for passage of olfactory nerves
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What would happen if the cribiform plate fractures?
It would allow for CSF to escape and bacteria to enter (meningitis)
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Where is the perpendicular plate located?
It is the superior portion of the nasal septum
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Where do the ethmoidal sinuses drain?
They drain into the nasal cavity
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What are the 9 cranial bones?
1) parietal bone (x2) 2) frontal bone 3) sphenoid bone 4) ethmoid bone 5) occipital bone 6) temporal bone (x2) 7) sutural bone (wormian bones)
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What are the 14 facial bones?
1) mandible 2) vomer 3) maxilla (x2) 4) lacrimal bone (x2) 5) nasal bone (x2) 6) zygomatic bone (x2) 7) palatine bone (x2) 8) Inferoir conchae (x2)
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Parts of the zygomatic bone
- lateral margin of the orbits - zygomatic arch
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What does the zygomatic arch articulate with?
It articulates with the zygomatic process’
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Parts of the lacrimal bone
- medial wall of orbits - lacrimal groove
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What is the lacrimal groove a passage for?
It is a passage for the nasolacrimal duct (drains tears into the nasal cavity)
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What does the nasal bone help do?
It helps shape the nose
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What is the vomer apart of?
The inferior posterior portion of the nasal septum
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What is another name for the inferior nasal conchae?
The inferior nasal turbinates
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The inferior nasal conchae is very _______?
Vascular
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What does the palatine bone contribute to?
It contributes to the posterior portion of the hard palate and the orbits
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Parts of the Maxillae
- Alveoli - Infraorbital foramen - Palatine processes - Maxillary sinus
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What are the Alveoli?
Sockets for the teeth of the upper jaw
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What are the Infraorbital foramen used for?
For passage for nerves and blood vessels
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What are the palatine processes?
The hard palate
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What are some injuries of the maxillary sinus?
Crepitus: crackle sound of fractured maxillary sinus Blowout fracture: fracture of orbit, allowing the eye to drop into the maxillary sinus
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What are all 8 parts of the mandible?
1) Alveolar process 2) Ramus 3) Mandibular condyles - TMJ 4) Coronoid process 5) Mandibular notch 6) Angle of the mandible 7) Mental foramen 8) mandibular foramen
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Where is the mandibular notch located?
Between the mandibular condyles and the coronoid process
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Where and what is the mental foramen used for?
It is on the outside of the chin It is used for the passage of the trigeminal nerve branch
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What is the mandibular foramen used for?
Passage of the trigeminal nerve branch
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What are the 8 parts of a vertebrae?
1) Body 2) Vertebral arch 3) Pedicles 4) Laminae 5) Vertebral foramen 6) Spinous process 7) Transverse process 8) Superior/inferior articular process
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What is the vertebral foramen used for?
Passage of the spinal cord
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What does the transverse process contain in C1-C7?
The transverse foramina
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What are the two parts of the intervertebral disks?
1) Anulus fibrosus - rings outside 2) Nucleus pulposus - gel center
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How many cervical vertebra are there?
7
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What are the three important cervical vertebra
1) Atlas (C1) 2) Axis (C2) 3) Vertbral prominens (C7)
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What are the characteristics of the cervical vertebra?
- Transverse foramen - smaller bodies - bifurcated spinous process
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What are the characteristics of the Atlas and what does it articulate with?
- has no body, and a small spinous process - the superior articulating process articulates with the occipital condyles
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What is the landmark on the Axis?
The dens/odontoid process
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What joints produce the yes and no motion?
- the atlantooccipital joint (atlas + occipital condyles) produce the yes motion - the atlantoaxial joint (atlas + axis) produce the no motion
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How many thoracic vertebra are there?
12
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What are the characteristics of a thoracic vertebrae?
- downward spinous process - looks like a giraffe - coastal facets (on both body and transverse process)
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How many lumbar vertebra are there?
5
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What are the characteristics of lumbar vertebra?
- massive bodies - no costal facets - no transverse foramen - largest vertebrae
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What are lumbar vertebrae excellent sites for and where?
Spinal taps, specifically below L3
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How many vertebrae are fused on the sacrum and coccyx?
5 on the sacrum 4 on the coccyx
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What are the three types on curves that can happen to the spine?
1)Hyperkyphosis 2) Hyperlordorsis 3) Scoliosis
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What is hyperkyphosis?
Excessive thoracic curvature
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What is hyperlordosis?
Excessive anterior curvature of the lumbar
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What is scoliosis?
Excessive lateral curvature
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What are 2 injuries that can happen to the vertebral discs and what are they?
1) Herniated disc - annular tissue rips open and nucleus herniates 2) Bulging disc - a tear in the annular tissue allows bulging
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Parts of the thoracic cage?
1) Sternum 2) Ribs
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What are the three parts of the sternum?
1) Manubrium 2) Body/Gladiolus 3) Xiphoid
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What are the landmarks on the manubrium?
- Clavicular notches (They articulate with the clavicles) - Jugular notch (Suprasternal notch)
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What landmarks are on the body on the sternum?
- costal notches - sternal angle
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What are the three types of ribs and how many are there?
- true ribs (1-7) - false ribs (8-12) - false/floating ribs (11-12)
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How are the three types of ribs attached to the sternum?
-true ribs have direct costal attachment to the sternum - false ribs have no direct costal attachment to the sternum - floating ribs have no attachment to the sternum
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5 parts of the rib
1) Head 2) Neck 3) Tubercle 4) costal angle 5) body
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Important structures pass through the vertebral and intervertebral foramen in the vertebral column?
Intervertebral foramen: spinal nerves Transverse foramen: nerves and vessels Vertebral canal: spinal cord
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Potential injuries to the spine
- strained muscle - herniation of intervertebral disk - dislocation of facets - arthritis - posture - injury
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What are some treatments for spinal injuries?
- bed rest - chiropractor - physical therapy - positional exercise - stretching and strengthening exercise - injections - surgery
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What is flail chest and what are some signs of it?
When several adjacent ribs are broken in two or more places - paradoxical motion (chest sinks in when breath in and bulge in when exhale) can be a sign of flail chest
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What are the 7 parts of the axial skeleton?
1) cranial 2) facial 3) vertebrae 4) ribs 5) sternum 6) hyoid 7) auditory ossicles
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What are fontanels and what are the functions?
- Fontanels are fibrous structures providing space between cranial bones - They allow for movement of cranial bones during parturitaion (birth) and growth
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What are the 4 cranial sutures and what bones are connected by them?
1) Coronal: separates frontal and parietal bones 2) Sagittal: separates parietal bones 3) Squamous: separates temporal and parietal bones 4) Lambdoidal: separates occipital and parietal bones
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What bones are associated with eating?
-maxilla - mandible - palatine bones
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What bone are associated with hearing?
Temporal bone
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What bones are associated with sight?
Many - maxilla People - palatine See - sphenoid Zebras - zygomatic Falling - frontal Like - lacrimal Elephants - ethmoid
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What are the three parts of the nasal septum?
1) Superior: perpendicular plate of ethmoid 2) Inferior: vomer 3) Anterior: septal nasal cartilage
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What are the major foramen of the skull?
- foramen magnum - supraorbital foramen - carotid canal - jugular foramen - foramen ovale - foramen rotundum - optic foramen - foramen spinosum
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What does TMJ stand for and what makes it up?
TMJ - Temporalmandibular joint - Temporal bone: mandibular fossa - Mandible: mandibular condyle
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What are the 4 sinuses in the skull?
1) Ethmoidal 2) Frontal 3) Sphenoidal 4) Maxillary
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What are all the sinuses lined with?
Mucus and cilia
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What do the sinuses do?
- humidify air - lighten skull - give resonance - warm air
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What is the hard palatine made of?
- palatine bones - palatine process of the maxilla
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What is craniosynostosis?
Premature fusion of any suture

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