The Axial Skeleton

Question 1

What part of the skeleton does the Axial skeleton refer to?

Answer 1

Skull, Vertebral Column, Thoracic Cage

Question 2

How many bones are in the Cranium?

Answer 2

8

Question 3

How many bones are in the Face?

Answer 3

14

Question 4

How many bones make up the Vertebral Column?

Answer 4

33 vertebrae (26 bones, fusion)

Question 5

How many bones make up the Sternum?

Answer 5

3

Question 6

How many bones make up the Ribs?

Answer 6

24 (12 pairs)

Question 7

What bones make up the Cranial roof?

Answer 7

Frontal, Occipital, and Parietal

Question 8

What bones make up the Cranial base?

Answer 8

Frontal, Sphenoid, Ethmoid, Occipital, Parietal, and Temporal bones

Question 9

What is a Suture?

Answer 9

Type of fibrous joint found only in the skull. Edges of different bones are tightly connected by a thin layer of connective tissue.

Question 10

What bone makes up the ‘forehead’?

Answer 10

Frontal Bone

Question 11

Where might you find the Mandible bone?

Answer 11

Lower jaw

Question 12

What is sometimes referred to as the ‘cheekbone’?

Answer 12

Zygomatic

Question 13

Where is the Maxilla located?

Answer 13

Upper Jaw

Question 14

Where is the Hyoid bone found?

Answer 14

V-shaped bone at root of tongue.
Provides attachment for muscle (i.e., tongue)

Question 15

Where might you find the ‘Coronal suture’?

Answer 15

Attaching the Frontal and Parietal bone, found superiorly at the top of the skull.

Question 16

What is the bone that forms the sides and top of the Cranium?

Answer 16

Parietal

Question 17

What bone is found at the back of the cranium?

Answer 17

Occipital

Question 18

Where does the Spinal Cord attach to the Cranium?

Answer 18

Through the Foramen Magnus, a large opening in the Occipital bone.

Question 19

What is the Sphenoid bone?

Answer 19

Forms the base of the cranium and has ‘wing-like’ projections.

Articulates with the frontal, parietal, and temporal bones.

Question 20

What does Articulation mean?

Answer 20

Location where 2 or more bones meet and join.

Connection known as a ‘Joint’.

Question 21

Where is the Lacrimal bone positioned?

Answer 21

Small bones behind and lateral to the nasal bones.

They are in the eye-socket.

Question 22

What bone makes up the bridge of the nose?

Answer 22

Nasal bones.

Two small bones, articulate at the top with the Frontal bone.

Question 23

Where is the Turbinator found?

Answer 23

Bones that form the lateral walls of the nasal cavity.

Upper and middle made of Ethmoid bone.

Question 24

Where is the Palatine bone found?

Answer 24

Bottom of nose, eye cavities, and wall of the roof of the mouth.

Hence ‘palate’.

Question 25

Where is the Vomer bone found?

Answer 25

Thin flat bone which separates the nasal cavities and articulates at the top with the Ethmoid bone.

Question 26

What bone forms the sides and lower part of the Cranium?

Answer 26

Temporal

Question 27

How many bones are in the Cervical Vertebrae?

Answer 27

7 bones in the neck

Question 28

How many bones make up the Coccygeal Vertebrae?

Answer 28

4 bones below the Sacrum forming the Coccyx

Question 29

How many bones make up the Thoracic Vertebrae?

Answer 29

12 bones carrying the ribs in the centre of the body

Question 30

How many bones make up with Lumbar Vertebrae?

Answer 30

5 bones in the lower back

Question 31

How many bones make up the Sacral Vertebrae?

Answer 31

5 bones in the pelvis, fused to form the Sacrum.

Question 32

Which parts of the Vertebral Column are known as ‘True Vertebrae’?

Answer 32

Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar. Because they are capable of movement. Separated by intervertebral discs, pads of fibrocartilage with shock-absorbing functions.

Question 33

What type of bones are Vertebrae?

Answer 33

Irregular bones

Question 34

What is the function of the Vertebral Column/ Spine?

Answer 34

Central part of the skeleton. Supporting the head and protecting the spinal cord.

Question 35

What bones make up the Thoracic cage?

Answer 35

Sternum and Ribcage

Question 36

What does the term ‘True ribs’ mean?

Answer 36

The upper 7 pairs of ribs articulate directly with the Sternum. Lower 5 pairs are ‘False ribs’ that don’t articulate directly with the Sternum.