Skull

Question 1

What is the name of the cranial bone located at the forehead?

Answer 1

Frontal

Question 2

How many frontal bones are in the skull?

Answer 2

1

Question 3

Name a cranial bone that is shaped like a butterfly and located at the base of the skull.

Answer 3

Sphenoid

Question 4

What is the name of the cranial bone located between the nose and the orbits?

Answer 4

Ethmoid

Question 5

How many parietal bones are in the skull?

Answer 5

2

Question 6

What is the name of the cranial bone that forms the sides and roof of the skull?

Answer 6

Parietal

Question 7

What is the name of the cranial bone that is located at the sides and base of the skull?

Answer 7

Temporal

Question 8

What cranial bone is located at the back of the skull?

Answer 8

Occipital

Question 9

What is the total number of cranial bones in the human skull?

Answer 9

8

Question 10

What is the name of the bone that forms the bridge of the nose?

Answer 10

Nasal bone

Question 11

What is the name of the bone that forms part of the roof of the mouth?

Answer 11

Palatine bone

Question 12

What is the name of the bone that forms the lower part of the nasal septum?

Answer 12

Vomer bone

Question 13

What is the name of the bone that forms the upper jaw and part of the orbits?

Answer 13

Maxilla

Question 14

What is the name of the bone located in the inner corner of the eye?

Answer 14

Lacrimal bone

Question 15

What is the name of the bone that forms the cheekbone?

Answer 15

Zygomatic bone

Question 16

What is the name of the bone that forms the lower part of the nasal cavity?

Answer 16

Inferior nasal concha

Question 17

What is the name of the bone that forms the lower jaw?

Answer 17

Mandible

Question 18

What are the cranial bones

Answer 18

Spheniod
Ethmoid
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital

Question 19

What connects the parietal bones

Answer 19

Sagittal suture

Question 20

What connects the frontal and parietal bones

Answer 20

Coronal suture

Question 21

What connects the temporal bones and the parietal bones

Answer 21

Squamous suture

Question 22

What connects the parietal bones and the occipital bones

Answer 22

Lambdoid suture

Question 23

What does the bone marking process look like? Where can you find a process?

Answer 23

Bony projection
Zygomatic process (cheekbone)

Question 24

What does a Chondyl bone marking look like? Where can you find this?

Answer 24

Rounded projection, mostly in joint areas
Mandibular chondyl

Question 25

What do fossa look like? Where can you find this?

Answer 25

Large dents in joints Mandibular fossa Lacriamal fossa (tear duct)

Question 26

What does a canal bone marking look like? Where can you find this?

Answer 26

Large openings/ holes Optic canal

Question 27

What does a foreman bone Work look like? Where can you find this?

Answer 27

Small holes where blood vessels and nerves travel Mental foreman Supraorbital infraorbital foreman

Question 28

What is an example of a meatus?

Answer 28

internal and external auditory holes

Question 29

With which bone does the zygomatic process connect with?

Answer 29

Temporal process

Question 30

Name the four bones that have paranasal sinuses

Answer 30

Frontal bone Ethmoid bone Sphenoid bone maxillary bone

Question 31

What do paranasal sinuses do?

Answer 31

Make the head lighter and protect the respiratory system from mucus collection

Question 32

What does the crista galli look like?

Answer 32

Crest of a rooster

Question 33

What is the crista gilli connected to?

Answer 33

Cribriform plate

Question 34

Is the inferior nasal concha part of the ethmoid bone?

Answer 34

No, they are separate facial bones

Question 35

What is another name for Sella turcica

Answer 35

Hypophseal fossa

Question 36

What is another name for hypophyseal fossa

Answer 36

Sella turcica

Question 37

Where does the hypoyseal fossa lay on the sphenoid bone?

Answer 37

From a superior view, it sits posterior and middle.

Question 38

What are the foramina associated with the Sphenoid bone?

Answer 38

Superior view: front to back Rotundum Ovale Spinosum

Question 39

What does these sphenoid formina share?

Answer 39

Create pockets for sinuses

Question 40

The mandibular condyle connects to what fossa bone marking and which bone

Answer 40

Mandibular fossa The temporal bone

Question 41

Where does the mandibular condyle connect?

Answer 41

Mandibular fossa in temporal bone

Question 42

What is the coronoid process? Where does it connect?

Answer 42

Front hook of the mandibular Closer to the zygomatic bone

Question 43

What is the palatine process?

Answer 43

Layer of tiny bone that make up the roof of the mouth

Question 44

The Palatine bones and two maxilla bones form the what?

Answer 44

Upper part of the mouth, including roof of the mouth

Question 45

Where can you find the inferior and superior orbital fissures?

Answer 45

A part of the sphenoid bone

Question 46

What is a fissure bone marking?

Answer 46

Small slits

Question 47

What is the function of the foreman magnum?

Answer 47

Where the spinal cord connects to the brain

Question 48

Which bone do the crista galli and cribriform plate belong to?

Answer 48

Ethmoid bone

Question 49

What foreman sits lateral to the sella turcica

Answer 49

Rotdndum foreman

Question 50

What bone can you find the Rotundum foreman and optic canal?

Answer 50

Sphenoid bone

Question 51

Where is the hyoid bone?

Answer 51

Interior to the epiglottis and superior to larynx