Skeletal System: Skull Flashcards
(133 cards)
1
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What is A
A
Parietal bone
2
Q
What is B
A
Frontal bone
3
Q
What is C
A
Occipital bone
4
Q
What is D
A
Temporal bone
5
Q
What is E
A
Sphenoid bone
6
Q
What is A
A
External auditory meatus
7
Q
What is B
A
Mastoid process
8
Q
What is C
A
Mandibular fossa
9
Q
What is D
A
Zygomatic process
10
Q
What is A
A
Squamous suture
11
Q
What is B
A
Coronal suture
12
Q
What is C
A
Lamboidal suture
13
Q
What is this called?
A
Sagittal suture
14
Q
What is A
A
Crista galli
15
Q
What is B
A
Ethmoid bone
16
Q
What is A
A
Crista galli
17
Q
What is B
A
Cribiform plate
18
Q
What is C
A
Superior nasal concha
19
Q
What is D
A
Middle nasal concha
20
Q
What is A
A
Frontal fontanel
21
Q
What is B
A
Occipital fontanel
22
Q
What is A
A
Nasal bone
23
Q
What is B
A
Zygomatic bone
24
Q
What is C
A
Vomer
25
What is D
Lacrimal bone
26
What is E
Inferior nasal concha
27
What is this bone
Hyoid bone
28
What is A
Palatine process of maxilla
29
What is B
Palatine bone
30
What is C
Occipital condyle
31
What is D
Foramen magnum
32
What is E
Zygomatic bone
33
What is F
Zygomatic process of temporal bone
34
What is G
Mandibular fossa of temporal bone
35
What is H
Mastoid process of temporal bone
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What is A
Ethmoid bone
37
What is B
Lacrimal bone
38
What is C
Inferior nasal concha
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What is D
Maxilla
40
What is A
Zygomatic process
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What is B
Nasal bone
42
What is C
zygomatic bone
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What is D
Maxilla
44
What is E
Mastoid process
45
What is A
Mandible
46
What is B
Coronoid process
47
What is C
Mandibular condyle
48
What is D
Ramus
49
What is blue
Frontal sinus
50
What is purple
Ethmoid sinus
51
What is orange
Sphenoid sinus
52
What is green
Maxillary sinus
53
What is A
Sella turcica
54
What is B
Optic canals
55
What is C
Sphenoid bone
56
What is A
Superior orbital fissure
57
What is B
Inferior orbital fissure
58
What is A
Crista galli of ethmoid
59
What is B
Cribiform plate of ethmoid
60
What is C
Optic foramen
61
What is D
Foramen magnum of occipital
62
What is E
Sella turica of sphenoid
63
What is A
Zygomatic process
64
What is B
Mandibular fossa
65
What is C
Styloid process
66
What is D
External auditory meatus
67
What is E
Mastoid process
68
What is A
Internal acoustic meatus
69
What is B
Jugular foramen
70
What is C
Carotid canal
71
What is D
Foramen lacerum
72
What is E
Hypoglossal canal
73
What is F
Foramen rotundum
74
What is G
Foramen ovale
75
What is H
Foramen spinosum
76
What is i/I
Optic canal
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What is A
Vomer
78
How many frontal bones are there?
1
79
How many parietal bones are there?
2
80
How many Temporal bones are there?
2
81
How many occipital bones are there?
1
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How many Ethmoid bones are there?
1
83
How many sphenoid bones are there?
1
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How many total cranial bones? What are they?
8 total. 1 frontal, 2 parietal, 2 temporal, 1 occipital, 1 ethmoid, 1 sphenoid
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How many nasal bones are there?
2
86
How many palatine bones are there?
2
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How many lacrimal bones are there?
2
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How many inferior nasal conchae?
2
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How many maxillae bones are there?
2
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How many zygomatic bones are there?
2
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How many vomers are there?
1
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How many mandibles are there?
1
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How many total facial bones are there? What are they?
14 total. 2 nasal bones, 2 palatine bones, 2 lacrimal bones, 2 inferior nasal conchae, 2 maxillae, 2 zygomatic bones, 1 vomer, 1 mandible
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Describe the saggital suture
articulates the two parietal bones within the saggital plane
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Describe the coronal suture
connects frontal bone with parietal bones
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Describe squamousal suture
the parietal bone on wither side articulates with it's corresponding temporal bone
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Describe the lambdoidal suture
connects occipital bone with the 2 parietal bones
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What is a process
Bony projection used for muscle attachment
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What is a condyle
smooth, rounded projection where bones meet, sits in fossa, moveable joints
100
What is a fossa
depressions in bone that can either be a apart of a moveable joint or holds an entire skeletal muscle, condyle sits in it
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What is a foramen
openings that allow for blood vessels and nerves to pass through
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What is a canal
openings that have a bony wall and resemble a tunnel of bone rather than a shallow foramen opening
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What is a meatus
passageway to inner ear and middle ear
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What bone does the zygomatic process articulate with?
zygomatic bone
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What is the function of the external auditory meatus
passage to inner/middle ear that amplifies sound
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Why is the zygomatic process called zygomatic process?
It is a process that articulates with the zygomatic bone
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What bones have paranasal sinuses?
Ethmoid, frontal, maxillary, sphenoid
108
2 functions of sinuses
decrease weight of skull, resonate voice
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What attaches to the crista galli?
Falx galli
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Are inferior nasal conchae attached to ethmoid bone?
No they are free standing bones
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What does the sphenoid bone look like?
A bat
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What important structure is located in the sella turica of the sphenoid bone?
Pituitary gland
113
All foramina associated with sphenoid bone
foramen rotundum, foramen ovale, foramen spinosum
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What general funtion do all sphenoid bone foramina share?
openings that allow blood vessels and nerves to pass through
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Where is mandibular fossa located?
Temporal bone
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Why is palatine process called that?
articulates with palatine bone
117
The palatine bones and two maxillae form what?
hard palate
118
Function of the foramen magnum
passage of the CNS through the skull, connects brain to the spinal cord
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What bone do the occipital condyles articulate with?
Atlas vertebra
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What bone do the foramen rotundum and optical canal belong?
sphenoid bone
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Hyoid bone is where compared to larynx?
superiorly connected
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Hyoid bone is where compared to the trachea?
trachea is inferior to the larynx and hyoid bone
123
Hyoid bone is where compared to the epiglottis?
epiglottis is posterior to the hyoid bone; directly behind it
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What connective tissue makes up the epiglottis?
Elastic cartilage
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What does the hyoid bone articulate with?
None
126
What crime was commited if the hyoid bone is found broken?
Strangulation
127
what are wormian bones
like tile filler in between the main cranial bones
128
what runs through the jugular foramen
jugular vein and cranial nerve
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what part of the ethmoid bone is porous
cribriform plate
130
what is the dura mater
outer most part is made of dense fibrous tissue and attaches to the crista galli so we dont smack out frontal lobe on it
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what are the foramen in the sphenoid bone
ROSL
rotundum
ovale
spinosum
lacerum
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what runs through the foramen lacerum
carotid artery
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what is the function of the nasal conchae
turbinance/acts like a mini centrifuge to get particulates out of the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract
