Skull, Scalp, Face Flashcards
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Asterion?
Point where temporal, occipital, and parietal bones meet
Bregma?
Meeting of frontal and parietal bones
When does the anterior fontanelle close?
By the first 18 months of life
Glabella
This is the smooth tranverse ridges connecting the supraorbital ridges
Inion:
highest point on EOP
Lambda:
Meeting point of the occiput and parietals
When does the posterior fontanelle close?
By the 2-3rd month of life
Nasion:
Center of the frontonasal suture between the frontal and nasal bones
Pterion:
Where frontal, sphenoid, parietal, and temporal bones meet
Vertex
Highest point on skull in the sagittal plane
Basion:
Middle of the anterior aspect of the foramen magnum
Opisthion:
Middle of posterior aspect of the foramen magnum
What are the layers of the scalp?
Skin, closed connective tissue, aponeurosis, loose connective tissue, pericranium
In which layer of the scalp do you find blood vessels and nerves?
Closed connective tissue
What makes up the aponeurosis of the scalp?
Flattened tendon of the occiptofrontalis muscle
Innervation of the scalp?
Branches of CN V, C2 and C3
Blood supply of the scalp?
Branches of the external carotid A
Foramen cecum bones? Contents?
Frontal and ethmoid
Nasal emissary V
Anterior/posterior ethmoidal bones? Contents?
Ethmoid
A/P ethmoidal N/A/Vs
Cribriform foramina bones? Contents?
Ethmoid Olfactory Ns (CN I)
Optic canal bones? Contents?
Sphenoid Optic N (CN II) and ophthalmic A
Superior orbital fissure bones? Contents?
Sphenoid
CN III, IV, V1, VI, ophthalmic V
Foramen rotundum bones? Contents?
Sphenoid
CN V2
Foramen ovale bones? Contents?
Sphenoid
CN V3, accessory meningeal A/V