40X Flashcards
What are the 2 regoins of the skull?
1) Neurocranium
2) Facial Skeleton
What bones does the Neurocranium consist of?
Frontal Parietal x2 Temporal x2 occipital sphenoid ethmoid
What comprises the Cranial Vault?
Calvaria (Skullcap)- domelike roof, frontal, occipital, & parietal bones
Basicranium (cranial base) floor of cranium, occipital, sphenoid, temporal, vomer, palatine, portion of maxillae
Which bone forms forehead, roof of orbits &; anterior cranial floor?
Frontal bone
Which bone forms the sides and roof of cranium?
parietal bones
Name all the parts of the temporal bone?
temporal squama zygomatic process external auditory meatus mastoid process styloid process stylomastoid foramen mandibular fossa petrous portion carotid foramen jugular foramen
what passes through the stylomastoid foramen?
CN VII
What passes through the petrous portion?
CN VIII
name the different sections of the occipital bone?
Foaramen magnum
occipital condyles
external occipital protuberance attachment for ligamentum nuchae
superior/inferior nuchal lines
Which cranial bone is in the middle part of the base of skull & know as “Keystone” b/c it articulates w/all other cranial bones?
sphenoid bone
What are the attachment sites for the jaw muscles known as on the sphenoid bone?
Pterygoid processes
What do the greater wings of the sphenoid bone form in the cranium?
anterolateral floor of the cranium & lateral part of skull
What do the lesser wings of the sphenoid bone form?
posterior part of orbit of eye & part of cranium floor
What is the passage way for the oculomotor, trochlear, abducens &; ophthalmic nerves (CN III, IV, VI, & V1)
Superior orbital fissue
What does Maxillary Branch of trigeminal (CN V2) pass through on the Sphenoid bone
Forame rotundum
What transmits the mandibular nerve (CN V3) through the sphenoid bone?
Foramen ovale
What comprises the Sella Turcica?
Ant ridge= tuberculum sellae
Cent. Depression= hypophyseal fossa
Post Ridge= dorsum sellae
what does the Sella turcica hold?
pituitary gland
Which bone forms part of the anterior portion of the cranial floor, the medial wall of the orbits, the superior portion of the nasal septum, and most of the superior side walls of the nasal cavity. It is a major superior supporting structure of the nasal cavity?
Ethmoid bone
Where are the ethmoid sinuses?
in lateral masses
what forms the upper portion of nasal septum?
perpendicular plate
What forms the turbinates?
Superior and middle conchae
What does the superior/ middle conchae do?
Superior: participates in smell (olfactory receptors
increase vascular surface area warming air
cause inhaled air to swirl & impact mucus filter air
What bones make up the facial skeleton?
Lacrimal x2 nasal x2 maxillae x2 zygomatic x2 palatine x 2 inferior nasal conchae x 2 mandible vomer
what forms the skeleton of upper jaw &; fixed to cranial base?
maxillae
what forms lower jaw & articulates w/ cranial base &; is moveable
mandible
What processes hold teeth in upper &; lower jaw?
Alveolar process
What bone forms cheekbones &; is lateral wall of orbit along with sphnoid
Zygomatic
This bone is part of the medial wall of orbit & what does it house?
Lacrimal bone; Lacrimal fossa houses lacrimal sac
This bone is “L” shaped with part of it forming hard palate?
Palatine
This is the posterior portion of the nasal septum?
Vomer
What forms the Nasal septum?
Vomer, perpendicular plate of ethmoid, & septal cartilage
Which bones form the orbits?
Maxillary lacrimal
Frontal sphenoid
Zygomatic palantine
Ethmoid
What are the 5 important foramen that are associated with the orbit?
Optic foramen Supraorbital foramen
Superior orbital fissure lacrimal fossa
Inferior orbital fissure
What is the location and what structures passing through the magnum foramen?
Occipital bone: medulla oblongata & its membranes, CN XI, & vertebral/ spinal arteries
What is the location and what structures passing through the mandibular foramen?
Medial surface of ramus of mandible; Inferior alveolar nerve & blood vessels
What is the location and what structures passing through the mental foramen?
INFERIOR TO 2ND PREMOLAR TOOTH IN MANDIBLE; mental nerve and vessels
What is the location and what structures passing through the olfactory foramen?
Cribriform plate of ethmoid bone; CN I (olfactory)
What is the location and what structures passing through the optic foramen?
What is the location and what structures passing through the optic foramen?
What is the location and what structures passing through the foramen ovale?
Greater wing of sphenoid bone; mandibular branch of CN V (trigeminal)
What is the location and what structures passing through the foramen rotundum?
Junc. Of anterior & medial parts of sphenoid; maxillary branch of CN V (trigeminal)
What is the location and what structures passing through the Stylomastoid foramen?
Between styloid & mastoid process of temporal bone; CN VII (Facial) & stylomastoid artery
What are sutures and where are they found?
Immovable joints found only between skull bones
What are the sutures of primary importance?
Coronal, sagittal, lambdoidal, & squamous
What suture unite the parietal and occipital bones?
Lambdoid