Dome piece

Question 1

What are the four subclassifications of synarthrosis joints based on Latin groupings?

Answer 1

suture, gomphosis, schindylesis and syndesmosis

Question 2

What were the 5 types of suture based on latin groupings?

Answer 2

serrate, denticulate, limbous, squamous, harmonia

Question 3

What are the characteristics of sutura vera? (true sutures)

Answer 3

sutures demonstrating interolocking of adjacent bone surfaces; typically formed by intramembranous ossification

Question 4

What are the characteristics of sutura notha? (false sutures)

Answer 4

sutures lacking interlocking of adjacent bone surfaces; typically formed by endochondral ossification

Question 5

Which sutures primarily interlock at their edges?

Answer 5

serrate and denticulate sutures

Question 6

Which sutures will interlock and overlap at their edges?

Answer 6

Limbous sutures

Question 7

Which sutures demonstrate non-interlock but will overlap at their edges?

Answer 7

Squamous sutures

Question 8

Which sutures will neither interlock nor overlap at their edges?

Answer 8

Harmonia sutures

Question 9

What were the classifications of sutura vera (true sutures) based on latin groupings?

Answer 9

serrate, denticulate and limbous

Question 10

What were the classfications of sutura notha (false sutures) based on latin groupings?

Answer 10

squamous and harmonia

Question 11

What are the five views of the skull called?

Answer 11

norma verticalis, norma frontalis, norma occipitalis, norma lateralis, norma basalis

Question 12

What is the norma verticalis?

Answer 12

skull viewed from top

Question 13

What is the norma frontalis?

Answer 13

skull viewed from front

Question 14

What is the norma occipitalis?

Answer 14

skull viewed from back

Question 15

What is the norma lateralis?

Answer 15

skull viewed from side

Question 16

What is the norma basalis?

Answer 16

skull viewed from bottom

Question 17

What points on the skull are used to measure skull size?

Answer 17

Nasion, vertex, inion and gnathion

Question 18

What points on the skull are used to measure cranial vault capacity?

Answer 18

Nasion, vertex and inion

Question 19

What ostia are observed in the anterior cranial fossa?

Answer 19

Cribriform plate, anterior & posterior ethmoid foramina and foramen cecum

Question 20

What are the contents of the optic canal?

Answer 20

Optic nerve and ophthalmic artery

Question 21

What opening allows CN II to exit the cranial vault?

Answer 21

Optic Canal

Question 22

What are the contents of the superior orbital fissure?

Answer 22

Ophthalmic veins, oculomotor nerve, trochlear nerve, ophthalmic division of trigeminal nerve and the abducent nerve

Question 23

Ophthalmic artery and veins do or do not share the same opening?

Answer 23

Do Not

Question 24

What are the contents of the foramen rotundum?

Answer 24

maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve

Question 25

What are the contents of the foramen ovale?

Answer 25

The mandibular division of the trigemnal nerve and the lesser petrosal branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve

Question 26

What are the contents of the foramen spinosum?

Answer 26

the nervus spinosus from the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve and the middle meningeal artery

Question 27

What are the contents of the foramen lacerum?

Answer 27

internal carotid artery, carotid sympathetic nerve plexus and a venous plexus

Question 28

Wat are the contents of the hiatus for the greater (superficial) petrosal nerve?

Answer 28

The greater petrosal nerve a branch of the facial nerve

Question 29

What are the contents of the pterygoid/vidian canal?

Answer 29

vidian nerve or nerve of the pterygoid canal

Question 30

What are the contents of the hiatus of the lesser petrosal nerve?

Answer 30

lesser petrosal nerve, a branch of the tympanic plexus from the glossopharyngeal nerve

Question 31

Which opening allows branch of cranial nerve IX to enter the infratemporal region from the middle cranial fossa/

Answer 31

Foramen Ovale

Question 32

What forms the roof of the posterior cranial fossa?

Answer 32

Tentorium Cerebelli

Question 33

What part of the cerebrum occupies the posterior cranial fossa?

Answer 33

none; only cerebellum, pons and medulla oblongata ae in the posterior cranial fossa

Question 34

Which single opening allows the exit of the greatest # of cranial nerves from the posterior cranial fossa?

Answer 34

The jugular foramen

Question 35

What bones form the jugular foramen?

Answer 35

Temporal and occipital bones

Question 36

What cranial nerves are within the jugular foramen?

Answer 36

IX (glossopharyngeal), X (vagus), and XI (spinal accessory)

Question 37

What is the jugular body/jugular glomus/tympanic body/tympanic glomus?

Answer 37

chemoreceptive organ within the wall of the jugular bulb

Question 38

What is the function of the jugular body/jugular glomus/tympanic body/tympanic glomus?

Answer 38

chemoreceptive organ that monitors hypoxia, hypercapnia and increases in hydrogen ions(acidity)

Question 39

What are the contents of the hypoglossal canal?

Answer 39

CN XII Hypoglossal Nerve