Head Flashcards
What is the bony covering of the brain and the meninges?
Neurocranium
Name the two parts of the cranium
Neurocranium
Viscerocranium
What are the two parts of the Neurocranium?
calvaria & cranial base
Which bones make up the Neurocranium?
formed by 4 singular bones (frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, occipital)
& 2 sets of paired bones (temporal & parietal)
What is the viscerocranium known as?
Facial skeleton
What type of bones are found in the facial skeleton? And how many?
Irregular
15
Name the irregular facial bones of the Viscerocranium (3,single/6 paired)
single bones -mandible, ethmoid, vomer
Paired bones -maxilla, inferior nasal concha, zygomatic, palatine, nasal, lacrimal
Which is the only bone in both neurocranium and viscerocranium?
ethmoid
Name the sutures of the skull and what they separate.
Coronal
Squamosal
Lambdoid
Saggital
What does the supraorbital foramen contain?
Nerve that passes through that supplies part of the orbit and part of the forehead
What is clinically important about the nerve passing through the supraorbital foramen?
If you wanted to numb the area to suture a facial laceration
What foramen does the infraorbital nerve pass through?
Infraorbital foramen
What does the frontal bone form?
Forehead
Name the facial aspects
frontal
Zygomatic bone
Maxilla
mandible
What forms the prominence of cheeks?
Zygomatic bone
Why shouldn’t you x-ray a 5 y/o to see if they fractured their nose?
Because it is still primarily cartilage
What holds the teeth?
Mandible holds lower teeth
Maxilla holds maxillary teeth
What are common fracture locations on the face?
Zygomatic arch*
Mandible
Infraorbital
What forms the lateral aspect of the cranium?
Temporal fossa
zygomatic arch
Mastoid process
What does the zygomatic arch consist of?
union of:
- temporal process of zygomatic bone
- zygomatic process of temporal bone
Prior to antibiotics what was a common infection caused by untreated OM?
mastoiditis
what are the lines on the occipital called?
nuchal lines
what’s the importance of ridges and lines in bones? (ex:nuchal lines)
attachment of muscles
which cranial bone contains the foramen magnum?
occipital