Skull

Question 1

Which cranial bone contains the sella turcica?

Answer 1

Sphenoid

Question 2

The thick is the most dense aspect of the cranium is the

Answer 2

Petrous Pyramid

Question 3

Which cranial suture separates the frontal and parietal bones

Answer 3

Coronal

Question 4

Which cranial suture separates the parietal and temporal bones

Answer 4

Squamosal

Question 5

The widest part of the cranium is between the

Answer 5

Right and left parietal bones

Question 6

How many bones are found in the cranium

Answer 6

8

Question 7

Which four bones articulate with the frontal bone

Answer 7

R & L parietal
Sphenoid
Ethmoid

Question 8

Which 3 bones articulate with the temporal bone

Answer 8

Parietal, Occipital, and Sphenoid

Question 9

Sella Turcica articulations

Answer 9

Parietal, Occipital, and Sphenoid

Question 10

Ethmoid bone articulations

Answer 10

Frontal & sphenoid

Question 11

Where is the petrous ridge located

Answer 11

Temporal bo e

Question 12

Where is the jugular foramina located

Answer 12

Temporal

Question 13

What is at the level of petrous ridges

Answer 13

TEA
Top of Ear Attachment

Question 14

Name the bones of the FLOOR

Answer 14

R & L temporal
Sphenoid
Ethmoid

Question 15

Skullcap bones

Answer 15

Front
R & L parietals
Occipital

Question 16

smooth, raised prominence between the eyebrows just above the bridge of the nose

Answer 16

Glabella

Question 17

Slight depression above each eyebrow

Answer 17

Supraorbital groove

Question 18

What are the orbital plates separated by

Answer 18

Ethmoidal not h

Question 19

Widest portion of skull

Answer 19

Parietal tubercles

Question 20

Prominent bump on back of head

Answer 20

Inion

Question 21

What do the temporal bones house

Answer 21

Organs of hearing

Question 22

Petrous ridges houses what

Answer 22

hearing organs

Question 23

Roosters comb

Answer 23

Crista galli

Question 24

What does the perpendicular plate help form

Answer 24

Bony nasal septum

Question 25

The small upper horizontal portion of the ethmoid bone

Answer 25

Cribiform plate

Question 26

This contains many small openings or foramina through which segmental branches of olfactory nerves (smell nerves) pass

Answer 26

Cribiform plate

Question 27

Projects superiorly from cribiform plate

Answer 27

Crista galli

Question 28

Largest fontanel

Answer 28

anterior fontanel

Question 29

How long is the EAM

Answer 29

1 inch

Question 30

Tympanic membrane aka

Answer 30

eardrum

Question 31

three main portions of the middle ear

Answer 31

tympanic membrane tympanic cavity auditory ossicles

Question 32

The area above the level of the EAM and the eardrum is called

Answer 32

Attic or epitympanic recess

Question 33

passageway between the middle ear and the nasopharynx

Answer 33

Eustachian tube

Question 34

Vibrations are first picked up by the

Answer 34

Malleus

Question 35

forms the superior part of each orbit

Answer 35

Orbital plate