BONES Flashcards
Skull SUTURES: Coronal
headband
Saggital
goes down middle of skull
Lambdoidal
back of skull line
Squamosal
around ear line
SKULL: Frontal
forehead
Parietal
middle/back of head
Temporal
by ear
Temporal: Mastoid process
bump at back of jaw
styloid process
pointy stylus of jaw
external auditory meatus
ear hole
zygomatic arch
by cheek bone
Occipital
back of skull
Occipital: foramen magnum
big hole in bottom of skull
occipital condyles
knobs on both sides of the foramen magnum
Sphenoid
by palate of mouth
Sphenoid: sella turcica
where pituitary gland sits
Ethmoid
bones of the nose
Ethmoid: Cribiform plate
area around the crista galli
crista galli
pointy part of nose
nasal conchea
little nose bone
Maxillary
upper jaw above teeth/mouth
Palatine
back of hard palate in mouth
Zygomatic
cheek bone
Lacrimal
where you produce tears