Flashcards in skull anatomy test study guide Deck (88):
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How many bones make up the skull?
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How many bones are cranial bones?
8
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How many bones are facial bones?
14
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The cranial bones are divided into two categories, what are they?
Calvaria and floor
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Which bones are bones of the Calvaria?
◾️frontal
◾️occipital
◾️right parietal
◾️left parietal
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Which bones are cranial floor bones?
◾️ethmoid
◾️sphenoid
◾️right temporal
◾️left temporal
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Know what the Squama is on all bones?
The main portion of the bone. Body of bone.
◾️occipital
◾️frontal
◾️parietal
◾️temporal
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What's the dipole?
Inner layer of spongy bone separating two outer plates of compact tissue
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What are sutures?
Joints between the cranial bones
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What are fontanelles?
Areas of incomplete ossification in infant skulls.
➡️There are 6.
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Where's the coronal suture?
Between frontal and parietal bones
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Where is the sagittal suture?
On top of head between two parietal bones
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Where's the squamosal suture?
Between temporal bone and parietal bones
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Where's the lambdoidal suture?
between occipital and parietal bone
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What is the Bregma?
Junction of coronal and sagittal sutures
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What is the lambda?
Junction of sagittal and lambdoidal sutures
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When adult cranial size is usually achieved?
By age 12
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What are the 3 general regions of the cranial floor?
◾️anterior cranial fossa
◾️ middle cranial fossa
◾️posterior cranial fossa
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What's the glabella?
Smooth elevated arch between the supercillary arches
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What are the orbital plates?
Roofs of the orbit
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What's the supraorbital foramen?
Opening in the center of the margin
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What's the supercillary arch?
Located where the eyebrows are
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What are the supraorbital margins?
Superior part of orbit
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What's the frontal eminence?
Rounded elevation on either side
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What's the Squama?
Forms forehead and anterior part of cranial vault
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What are the frontal bone parts?
◾️glabella
◾️orbital plates
◾️supraorbital foramen
◾️supercillary arch
◾️supraorbital margins
◾️frontal eminence
◾️Squama
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What are some ethmoid parts?
◾️superior and middle nasal conchae
◾️labyrinths
◾️perpendicular plate
◾️Cristi galli
◾️Cribiform plate
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What's the superior and middle nasal conchae?
Two thin scroll shaped projections
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What's the labyrinths?
Contains the ethmoid sinuses or air cells
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What's the perpendicular plate?
Vertical portion that forms the superior portion of bony nasal septum
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What's the Cristi galli?
Projects superiorly from midline
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What's the cribiform plate?
Horizontal portion with many small holes in it for transmission of the olfactory nerves
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What is the parietal bone surrounded by?
4 sutures of the skull
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What is the parietal eminence?
Prominent bulge near center of external surface of each bone
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What shape is the sphenoid?
Wedge shaped or bat
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Where does the pituitary gland sit?
By the anterior and posterior clinoid processes
➡️sella turcia
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What's the pterygoid hamulus?
Help form the nasal cavity
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What's the pterygoid process?
Help form the nasal cavity
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What's the posterior clinoid process?
Top borders of dorsum sellae
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What's the dorsum sellae?
Posterior part of sella turcia
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What's the tuberculum sellae?
Anterior part of sella turcia
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What's the sella turcia?
A deep depression on superior surface of the body
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What are the greater wings?
arise from the sides of the body and curve laterally
The bigger ones
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What are the lesser wings?
Triangular shaped and the most anterior horizontal part of the sphenoid
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What's the clivus?
Slanted area of bone posterior and inferior to dorsum
➡️pons of brains lay on it
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What's the body?
Center part of sphenoid contains the 2 sphenoid sinuses
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What's the anterior clinoid process?
Two bony processes that project posteriorly from the medial ends of lesser wings
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What's the optic foramen?
Located under lesser wings and projects into posterior orbit
➡️opens into the apex of the orbit
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What are some parts of the sphenoid?
◾️pterygoid hamulus
◾️pterygoid process
◾️posterior clinoid process
◾️dorsum sellae
◾️tuberculum sellae
◾️sella turcia
◾️greater wings
◾️lesser wings
◾️clivus
◾️body
◾️anterior clinoid process
◾️optic foramen
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What are some parts of the occipital bone?
◾️occipitoatlantal joint
◾️foramen magnum
◾️basilar portion
◾️occipital condyles
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What's the occipitoatlantal joint?
Only bony articulations between the skull and the neck
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What's the foramen magnum?
Large opening through which medulla oblongata passes as it exits
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What's the basilar portion?
Where occipital condyles fuse at to complete the foramen magnum
➡️occipital bone
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What are the occipital condyles?
They project anteriorly from each side of squama
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What's some parts of the temporal bone?
◾️petromastoid portion
◾️zygomatic process
◾️styloid process
◾️tympanic portion
◾️IAM
◾️petrous portion
◾️mastoid process
◾️EAM
◾️mandibular fossa
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What's the petromastoid portion?
The petrous and mastoid portions together
➡️contains the organs of hearing and balance
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What's the zygomatic process?
Prominent arched process that projects anteriorly to articulate with the zygoma and complete the zygomatic arch
➡️part of the zygomatic arch
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What's the styloid process
Slender pointed bone projecting from the EAM
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What's the tympanic portion?
Below the squama and in front of mastoid and petrous portions
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What's IAM.?
Internal auditory meatus. Located at the medial end of the petrous ridge
➡️correlates with EAM but is inside the skull
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What is the Petrous portion?
Located internally, pyramid in shape, and the thickest densest bone in the cranium
➡️densest bone in the cranium
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What's the mastoid process?
Large bony prominence located directly behind the EAM and contains the mastoid air cells
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What's the EAM?
Outer opening into the ear
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What's the mandibular fossa?
Receives condyles of mandible to form the tempormandibular (TMJ)
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Where's the mastoid tip?
Bump behind the ear
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What is the ear?
The organ of hearing
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What's the TEA? (Top of ear attachment)
Where ear attaches to head
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What's the EAM?
External auditory meatus, opening into the ear
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What's the mental point of the mandible?
Tip of chin
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What's the gonion?
Angle of mandible
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What's the EOP?
External occipital protuberance; bump on back of head
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What's the acanthion?
Junction of the upper lip and nose
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What's the supraorbital margin?
Upper border of orbit
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What's the infraorbital margin?
Lower border of the orbit
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What's the nasion?
Located at the junction of nose and frontal bones between the eyes depression
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What's the outer canthus?
Outside corner of the eye
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Inner canthus?
Inside corner of eye
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Where's the glabella?
Between eyebrows
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What's the angle of mandible?
Gonion
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What's the mentomeatal line? (MML)
Mental point ➡️ EAM
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What's the acanthiomeatal line?(AML)
Acanthion➡️EAM
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What's the IPL(interpupillary line)?
Perpendicular line between pupils of eyes
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What's the glabellomeatal line? GML
Glabella➡️EAM
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What's the infraorbital line? (IOML)
From infraorbital margin ➡️ EAM
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What's the orbitomeatal line? OML
Outer canthus ➡️ EAM
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What's the MSP?
Divides body into equal right and left halves
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What's MCP?
Divides the body into equal anterior and posterior parts
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