Ch 7 Flashcards
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Bones are composed of:
bone tissue, cartilage, dense connective tissue, blood and nervous tissue
3 functions of bones:
- store inorganic salts
- support and protect soft tissue
- house blood-producing cells
What 5 things are composed of the axial skeleton?
- skull
- middle ear bone
- hyoid bone
- vertebral column
- thoracic cage
What 4 things are composed of the appendicular skeleton?
- pectoral girdle
- upper limbs
- pelvic girdle
- lower limbs
The skull=
cranium + facial skeleton
Cranium:
encloses and protects brain
Facial skeleton:
forms shape of face
What are the 4 major sutures of the cranium?
- coronal
- sagittal
- squamous
- lamboid
(Cranium) Where are 5 places that the frontal bone is located?
- forehead
- roof of nasal cavity
- roofs of orbits
- frontal sinuses
- supraorbital foramen
(Cranium) Where is 1 place the parietal bone is located?
-sides & roof of cranium
(Cranium) What 2 things is the occipital bone composed of?
- foramen magnum
- occipital condyles
(Cranium) What 3 things is the temporal bone composed of?
- external acoustic meatus
- mandibular fossa
- zygomatic arch
(Cranium) What suture is located in the temporal bone?
squamous suture
(Cranium) What 3 processes are in the temporal bone?
mastoid, styloid, zygomatic
(Cranium) What 2 sutures are in the parietal bone?
- sagittal suture
- coronal suture
(Cranium) What suture is in the occipital bone?
-lambdoid suture
(Cranium) Where are 3 places the sphenoid bone is located?
- base of cranium
- sides of skull
- floor & sides of orbits
(Cranium) Where are 2 places the occipital bone is located?
- back of skull
- base of cranium
(Cranium) What 2 things is the sphenoid bone composed of?
- sella turcica
- sphenoid sinuses
(Cranium) What are 4 places the ethmoid bone is located?
- in front of sphenoid
- roof and walls of nasal cavity
- wall of orbits
- floor of cranium
(Cranium) What 2 plates make up the cranium?
- cribriform plates
- perpendicular plate
(Cranium) What 3 things are the ethmoid bone made up of?
- nasal conchae
- ethmoidal air cells
- crista galli
(Cranium) Where are 4 places the maxillae is located?
- upper jaw
- anterior roof of mouth
- floors of orbit
- sides and floor of nasal cavity
(Cranium) What 2 processes are in the maxillae?
- alveolar
- palatine