Skull (8)

Question 1

Answer 1

Supraorbital foramen

Supra=above
Foramen=hole
Orbital=eye

Question 2

(2)

Answer 2

Parietal

Classified as flat bones

Question 3

(2)

Answer 3

Temporal

Landmarks:
-external acoustic meatus
-mastoid process
-styloid process

Question 4

(Landmark)

Answer 4

External acoustic meatus

-Landmark for temporal bone
-Tubular passage in each temporal bone
-passage of sound from external ear to tempanic membrane

Question 5

(Landmark)

Answer 5

Mastoid Process

Large, blunt projection found along the external surface of the mastoid part of temporal bone

Question 6

(Landmark)

Answer 6

Styloid Process

Landmark for temporal bone (2)
-long pointed inferior projection
-found along inferior aspect of temporal bone

Question 7

Answer 7

Occipital Bone

Landmarks
-foramen magnum
-external occipital protuberance

Question 8

(Landmark)

Answer 8

Foramen magnum

Large oval opening on inferior of occipital bone

Question 9

(Landmark)

Answer 9

External Occipital Protuberance
EOP

Palpable prominence found along the external aspect of the occipital bone

Question 10

Answer 10

Sphenoid bone

Greater wing & lesser wing
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Question 11

Landmark

Answer 11

Sella turcica

Landmark for sphenoid bone

Question 12

Answer 12

Ethmoid bone

Landmarks:
-cribiform plate
-crista galli

Question 13

Landmark

Answer 13

Crista Galli

Landmark for ethmoid bone

Thick, triangular, projecting process
found along the midline on superior aspect of bone

Question 14

Landmark

Answer 14

Cribiform Plate

Landmark for ethmoid bone
-superior aspect of ethmoid bone
-horizontal plate bone