Week 3 And 4 Packets Flashcards
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Bone at the front most part of your skull
Frontal bone
Bones that make up the side parts of your skull, both sides, connect at top
Parietal bones
Bone of the skull around your ear
Temporal bone
Muscle attachment site behind the ear (part of temporal bone)
Mastoid process
Ear canal (part of temporal bone)
External auditory meatus
Muscle attachment underneath the ear, skinny and pointy (part of temporal bone)
Styloid process
Depressed area that meets condylar process on the mandible (part of the temporal bone)
Mandibular fossa
Long part that meets the zygomatic bone (part of the temporal bone)
Zygomatic process
Bone that is the back and lower back part of the skull
Occipital bone
Large opening in occipital bone that allows for spinal cord to pass through
Foramen magnum
Bony struts that allow C1 to connect to the occipital bone of the skull
Occipital condyles
Bone that is shaped like a bat and sits inside the front of your skull
Sphenoid bone
Posterior wall of orbits, make up a large part of the sphenoid bone
Greater wings
Makes up part of medial wall of orbits, smaller portion of the sphenoid bone
Lesser wings
Secure setting for EXTREMELY important pituitary gland on the sphenoid bone, looks like a tunnel, could rest a pencil inside
Stella turcica/pituitary fossa
Deeper than the sphenoid bone, makes up parts of your nasal cavity
Ethmoid bone
Large sword shaped part of the the ethmoid bone
Perpendicular plate
Inner “flaps” of the nose, increase surface area, mucosa warms the air as it passes
Nasal conchae (superior and middle)
Bone that makes up the back part of the roof of your mouth
Palatine bone
Bone that is the bridge of your nose
Nasal bone
Bone of the face that makes up your upper jaw
Maxilla
Bone that makes up the frontal part of the roof of your mouth
Palatine process
Bone that makes up your gum line
Alveolar process
Bones that make up the holes where your teeth are
Alveoli