SKULL

Question 1

The 3 Layers of the Cerebral Cranium

Answer 1

OUTER TABLE/ OUTER COMPACT LAYER
INNER COMPACT LAYER
DIPLOE

Question 2

It is the outer covering of the brain.

Answer 2

OUTER TABLE/OUTER COMPACT LAYER

Question 3

Layer of the Cerebral Cranium that is spongy and is most bloody

Answer 3

DIPLOE

Question 4

The inner layer covering the brain

Answer 4

INNER COMPACT LAYER

Question 5

It is the point where the sagittal suture meets the lambdoidal suture and becomes filled in with bone at about 6 months and is called “Lambda”.

Answer 5

Posterior/Occipital Fontanel

Question 6

Is the small gap on the posterior surface of the skull at the junction of the two parietal bones with the occipital bone.

Answer 6

POSTERIOR/OCCIPITAL FONTANEL

Question 7

This is the junction of the coronal and sagittal suture called “Bregma”.

Answer 7

ANTERIOR/FRONTAL FONTANEL

Question 8

Lies at the junction of the two parietal bones with the frontal bone at the midline of the vertex.

Answer 8

ANTERIOR/FRONTAL FONTANEL

Question 9

are gaps in the skull of infants between the angles formed at the junctions of the parietal, frontal and occipital bones.

Answer 9

FONTANEL/FONTANELLE

Question 10

forms the joint between the lateral borders of the parietal bone and the upper border of the temporal bone on each side.

Answer 10

SQUAMOUSAL SUTURE

Question 11

This lies on the lateral wall of the skull above and behind the ear

Answer 11

SQUAMOUSAL SUTURE

Question 12

is the joint between the posterior borders of the two parietal bones and upper border of the occipital bone.

Answer 12

LAMBDOIDAL SUTURE

Question 13

This form a curved line on the posterior surface of the skull and meets the posterior end of the sagittal suture in the midline.

Answer 13

LAMBDOIDAL SUTURE

Question 14

is the joint between the posterior border of the frontal bone and the anterior borders of the parietal bones.

Answer 14

CORONAL SUTURE

Question 15

They crosses the roof/vertex of the skull transversely and meet the sagittal suture at right angle.

Answer 15

CORONAL SUTURE

Question 16

is the joint between the upper adjacent borders of the two parietal bones that extends from front to back along the midline of the vertex of the skull

Answer 16

SAGITTAL SUTURE

Question 17

are special interlocking immovable joints between the cranial bones that looks like a saw teeth of one bone which fit into small indentations of the adjacent bones.

Answer 17

SUTURES OF THE SKULL

Question 18

are paired cavities within some of the cranial and facial bones which have an openings into the nasal cavities and filled with air.

Answer 18

PARANASAL SINUSES

Question 19

are cavities within the frontal bone that extend up into the squamous part forming the forehead.

Answer 19

FRONTAL SINUSES

Question 20

are large cavities in each maxilla that lie behind the soft tissue of the cheek and lateral to the nasal cavities.

Answer 20

MAXILLARY SINUSES

Question 21

are groups of small cavities lying in the lateral wall of the nasal cavities on each side.

Answer 21

ETHMOID SINUSES

Question 22

are two cavities on each side in the body of the Sphenoid bone.

Answer 22

SPHENOID BONE

Question 23

They lie under the Sella Turcica behind the nasal fossae and are visible on Open mouth view.

Answer 23

SPHENOID SINUSES

Question 24

is an opening on the inner side of each ramus which lead into the mandibular canal for the mandibular nerve.

Answer 24

MANDIBULAR FORAMEN

Question 25

is a half-moon shaped notch between the Coronoid and Condyloid processes.

Answer 25

MANDIBULAR NOTCH

Question 26

is the constricted part between the Capitulum and the remainder of the condyloid process.

Answer 26

NECK

Question 27

is the slightly expanded upper end of the condyloid process that articulate with the Temporal bone at the “Temporo-Mandibular Joint”.

Answer 27

CAPITULUM