Head Flashcards
(241 cards)
What are the two parts of the external cranium?
- neurocranium
- fascial skeleton
What are the two parts of the neurocranium?
- calvaria
- cranial base
Identify

- frontal
- nasal
- maxilla
- zygomatic
- mandible
Identify

- supra-orbital foramen
- nasion
- glabella
Identify

- infra-orbital foramen
- mental foramen
- mental protruberance
Identify

- frontal
- maxilla
- zygomatic
- sphenoid
- lacrimal
- ethmoid
- palatine
Identify the openings

- superior orbital fissure
- optic canal
- inferior orbital fissure
What passes through the openings?

- CN 3, 4, 6, and V1
- CN 2 (optic n.)
- CN V2
Identify

- maxilla
- ethmoid
- inferior nasal concha
- vomer
Identify

- frontal
- nasal
- maxilla
- palatine
- occipital
- sphenoid
- ethmoid
Identify

- frontal
- nasal
- maxilla
- lacrimal
- inferior nasal concha
- palatine
- sphenoid
- occipital
Identify

- head of condylar process
- neck of condylar process
- coronoid process of mandible
- mental protuberance
- mental foramen
- body of mandible
- angle of mandible
- ramus of mandible
- condylar process
Identify

- frontal
- parietal
- occipital
- sphenoid
- temporal
- styloid process
- zygomatic
- lacrimal
- maxilla
- nasal
Identify

- coronal suture
- pterion
- temporal fossa
- zygomatic arch
- mastoid process
- external acousic meatus
Identify

- coronal suture
- sagittal suture
- lambdoid suture
- lambda
- bregma
Identify

- occipital
- temporal
- sphenoid
- maxilla
- palatine
What bones make up the hard palate?
- maxilla
- palatine
What allows the head to nod?
- occpital condyle on C1
Identify 1

1A. occipital condyle
1B. foramen magnum
1C. external occipital protuberance (EOP)
Identify 2 & 3

2A. mastoid process
2B. styloid process
2C. stylomastoid foramen
2D. jugular fossa (foramen)
2E. carotid canal
3A. foramen ovale
What is the landmark to find the foramen ovale?
- tiny round hole just posteriolateral
What bones create the coronal suture?
- frontal
- R/L parietal
What bones create the sagittal suture?
- R & L patietal
What bones create the lambdoid suture?
- occipital
- R/L parietal

















































































