Cranium

Question 1

Facial bones how many

Answer 1

14

Question 2

Skull cap aka

Answer 2

Calvarium

Question 3

What are the bones of the Calvarium

Answer 3

Frontal
Rt/ lt parietal
Occipital

Question 4

Bones that make up the floor of the cranium

Answer 4

Ethmoid
Sphenoid
2 temporal bones

Question 5

Landmarks of frontal bone

Answer 5

Glabella 3rd eye
Superciliary ridge/arch under brow 
Supraorbital margin SOM
Supraorbital groove
Frontal tuberosity

Question 6

Cranium how many bones

Answer 6

8

Question 7

Name the sutures

Answer 7

Coronal, Squamosal, Lambdoidal, Saggital

Question 8

The junction between the coronal and Sagittal sutures is

Answer 8

Bregma

Question 9

The junction between the Lambdoidal and Saggital sutures

Answer 9

Lambda

Question 10

The junction of the occipital, parietal, and mastoid portion of the temporal bone

Answer 10

Asterion

Question 11

The junction of the parietal bone, Squamosal suture, and greater wing of the sphenoid is

Answer 11

Pterion

Question 12

Names of the fontanels/ fontanelles

Answer 12

Anterior, Posterior, Sphenoidal, Mastoid

Question 13

Where are olfactory Foramen

Answer 13

In cribriform plate

Question 14

What do the superior and middle nasal concha do

Answer 14

Warm the air we breathe

Question 15

Makes up a portion of the nasal septum

Answer 15

Perpendicular plate

Question 16

Pituitary gland sits where

Answer 16

Sella turcica

Question 17

Pituitary gland aka

Answer 17

Hypophysis

Question 18

Organs of hearing and balance are contained in there

Answer 18

Petronius portion of temporal bone

Question 19

What type of joints are adult sutures?

Answer 19

Fibrous joints, synarthroidal

Question 20

What are the functions of fontanelles

Answer 20

Let’s skull move through birth canal, allows for growth

Question 21

When doe fontanelles start to close and when are the completely fused

Answer 21

18 months and around 11,12,13 years old.

Question 22

Which fontanelle is biggest

Answer 22

Anterior fontanel/ Bregma

Question 23

The skull shapes represent

Answer 23

The angle that the Petrous ridge lays in skull

Question 24

Mesocephalic

Answer 24

Average skull; width is 15cm and 79% of length (19cm)

Question 25

Brachycephalic

Answer 25

Fat head; width is 80% or more of length

Question 26

Dolichocephalic skull

Answer 26

Narrow, longer; width is less than 75% of length;

Question 27

The angle from the MSP to the Petrous ridge in a Brachycephalic skull is

Answer 27

54 degrees

Question 28

The angle from the MSP to the Petrous ridge in a Mesocephalic skull

Answer 28

47degrees

Question 29

The angle from the MSP to the Petrous ridge in a dolichocephalic skull

Answer 29

40 degrees

Question 30

Widest part of cranium

Answer 30

Parietal tubercles/eminences

Question 31

Frontal bone landmarks

Answer 31

Glabella; supercilliary ridge; supra orbital margin; supraorbital groove; frontal tuberosity/eminence

Question 32

External occipital protuberance aka

Answer 32

Inion

Question 33

Forms occipito-Atlantal joint

Answer 33

Lateral condylar portion (occipital condyles)

Question 34

Petrous pyramid aka

Answer 34

Pars petrosa | Petromastoid

Question 35

The parietal bones articulate with what bones?

Answer 35

Frontal Occipital Temporal Sphenoid