Chapter 7+11 Flashcards
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The central axis of the body; includes skull bones, auditory ossicles, teeth, hyoid, vertebrae, sacrum, coccyx, ribs, and sternum
Axial skeleton
The bones of pectoral and pelvic girdles and extremities; includes clavicle, scapula, humerus, radius, ulna, carpals, metacarpals, phalanges, os coxae, femur, tibia, patella, fibula, tarsals, and metatarsals
Appendicular skeleton
Front portion of skull
Frontal bone
Passageway for nerves and vessels above orbit
Supraorbital foramen
Top part of skull, two sides that are separated by sutures
Parietal bone
On either side of skull, nears the ears, the “temple”
Temporal bone
Flat part of temporal bone along the side of the cranium, “outside”
Squamous portion
Forms part of the cranial base and holds the inner and middle ear structures, “inner area”
Petrous portion
Bony projection for attachment of muscles
Mastoid process
The thin pointy projection for attachment of muscles
Styloid process
Canal through the temporal bone for vibrations in air to travel to contact tympanic membrane (ear drum)
External acoustic meatus
Depression in bone, articulation site for mandibular condyle to form the temporomandibular joint
Mandibular fossa
The back of the skull
Occipital bone
Large opening in the base of the skull for passage of spinal cord
Foramen magnum
Smooth surfaces for articulation with first cervical vertebrae (atlas)
Occipital condyles
Behind the eyes and below front part of brain, looks like a butterfly
Sphenoid bone
Larger lateral projections of sphenoid bone
Greater wing
Flat superior portions of sphenoid
Lesser wing
Means Turkish saddle, saddle-shaped depression where pituitary gland sits
Sella turica
Front of nose, part of cranium
Ethmoid bone
Superior projection into cranial cavity
Crista galli
Inferior projection that forms superior part of nasal septum
Perpendicular plate
Divide 4 major bones of skull
Sutures
Divides parietal and frontal skull
Coronal suture