Chap 7

Question 1

What parts does the skeleton consist of?

Answer 1

1. Bones
2. Joints
3. Cartilage
4. Ligaments

Question 2

What is another word for joints?

Answer 2

Articulations

Question 3

How many bones in human skeleton?

Answer 3

206

Question 4

What are the two different skeletal part?

Answer 4

Axial and appendicular

Question 5

What skeleton is the scapula and clavicle a part of?

Answer 5

Appendicular skeleton

Question 6

What skeleton is the pelvic girdle part of?

Answer 6

Appendicular skeleton

Question 7

What does the appendicular skeleton consist of?

Answer 7

Upper and lower limbs

Question 8

What does the axial skeleton consist of?

Answer 8

Skull, Vertebral column and thoracic cage (including sacrum & coccyx)

Question 9

What are the 5 functions of facial bones?

Answer 9

1- framework of face
2- cavities for sight, taste, smell
3- air & food opening passages
4- hold the teeth
5- anchor facial muscles

Question 10

What is the bald part of the skull called?

Answer 10

Cranial vault or calvaria

Question 11

paranasal sinuses

Answer 11

air-filled sinuses that occur in several bones around nasal cavity

Question 12

How many pairs of cranial nerves are there?

Answer 12

12

Question 13

What are the four largest sutures?

Answer 13

1. Coronal
2. Squamous
3. Sagittal
4. Lamboid

Question 14

Bone that forms roofs of orbits?

Answer 14

Frontal bone

Question 15

superciliary arches are the…

Answer 15

eyebrows

Question 16

What bone makes part of the cranial base?

Answer 16

occipital bone

Question 17

What two bones does the occipital bone articulate with?

Answer 17

parietal at lamboid suture
&
temporal at occiptomastoid sutures

Question 18

What articulates with the first vertebra that enables you to nod yes?

Answer 18

occipital condyles

Question 19

What is hidden medial and superior to each occipital condyle?

Answer 19

hypoglossal canal

Question 20

An elastic sheet shaped ligament that lies in the median plane of the posterior neck

Answer 20

ligamentum nuchae

Question 21

Four regions of the temporal bone

Answer 21

squamous
tympanic
mastoid
petrous regions

Question 22

What is the eardrum portion of the skull?

Answer 22

tympanic region

surrounds external acoustic meatus

Question 23

What bone is the attachment point for some muscles of the tongue?

Answer 23

Styloid process

Question 24

Cranial and facial nerve leaves the skull through this foramen

Answer 24

Stylomastoid foramen

Question 25

When infection spreads from throat to mid ear to mastoid cells this is called...

Answer 25

mastoiditis

Question 26

What are the 3 processes of the sphenoid bone

Answer 26

greater wings lesser wings pterygoid processes

Question 27

saddle shaped prominence of sphenoid bone

Answer 27

sella turca