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9. The Cranium Flashcards

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Function of skull

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Provides support and protection for brain and spinal cord

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What does it mean to say the skull is isotropic?

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When a force is applied to the cranium, it radiates around the structure rather than focusing on one point

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Layers of bones in skull and their composition

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Inner table - compact bone
Diploe - similar to cancellous bone
Outer table - compact bone

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What are wormian bones?

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Extra irregular bones that occur within a suture in the cranium

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What do extocranial and endocranial mean?

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Extocranial - external skull

Endocranial - inner surface of skull

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Cranial bones

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Frontal
Parietal (2)
Occipital
Temporal (2)
Ethmoid
Sphenoid
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Facial bones

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Maxillae (2)
Palatines (2)
Nasals (2)
Lacrimals (2)
Zygomatics (2)
Vomer
Inferior nasal conchae
Mandible
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Ear ossicles

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Malleus
Incus
Stapes

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9
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Types of adult teeth

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8 incisors
4 canines
8 premolars
12 molars

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10
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Where is the metopic suture?

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Between frontal bones
Usually completely disappears
Retained metopic suture = non metric trait

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Lambda

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Meeting point of sagittal and lambdoid sutures

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Bregma

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Meeting point of coronal and sagittal sutures

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Pterion

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The region where frontal, parietal, temporal, sphenoid bones join together

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Anterior cranial fossa

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Consists of frontal, ethmoid and sphenoid bones

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Middle cranial fossa

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Consists of sphenoid and temporal bones

Contains pituitary and 4 foramen

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Posterior cranial fossa

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Consists of occipital and temporal bones

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Articulations of frontal bone

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Parietal
Zygomatic
Lacrimal
Nasal
Maxillae
Sphenoid
Ethmoid
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18
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Frontal bosses

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Primary ossification centres

More prominent in females

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Glabella

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Brow ridge

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Supraorbital margin

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Superior half of orbital rim

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Supraorbital formen/notch

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Small groove at the superior/medial margin of orbit

Supraorbital nerve passes through

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Frontal crest

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Anchors falx cerebri

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Falx cerebri

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Large cresecent shaped fold of dura mater

Descends vertically in fissure between cerebral hemispheres of brain

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Sagital sulcus

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Groove left by sagital venous drainage structure in frontal bone

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Arachnoid granulations

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Projections from the arachnoid which create small holes in the inner surface of frontal bone

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Articulations of parietal bone

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Other parietal
Sphenoid
Occipital
Temporal
Frontal
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Sagittal sinus

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Runs alongside endocranial sagittal suture

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Where are arachnoid granulations in the parietal bone?

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Near the sagittal suture

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29
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Parietal striae

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Distinct thin furrows along the squamosal border

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30
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Meningeal grooves

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Created by meninges
In the parietal bone
Begin at front of bone and branch backwards getting thinner

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31
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How do you side the parietal bone?

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90 degree angle at bregma

Middle meningeal vessel anteriorly is close to coronal suture

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Articulations of temporal bone

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Parietal
Sphenoid
Occipital
Zygomatic
Mandible
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33
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Petrous/mastoid portion of temporal bone

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Houses internal auditory meatus

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34
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What does the internal auditory meatus allow?

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The passage of CNVII and CNVIII

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35
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What does the mastoid process have?

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Mastoid foramina

Mastoid notch

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36
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What passes through the mastoid foramina?

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Occipital veins and arteries

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37
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What muscle attaches to the mastoid notch?

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Digastric

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38
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What attaches to the supramastoid/supramental crests?

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Posterior temporalis muscle

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39
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What is the glenoid fossa?

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Found anterior to the external auditory meatus

Involved in temporomandibular joint

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Styloid process of the temporal bone

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Attachment site for muscles and ligaments including stylohyoid
Has styloid foramen

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41
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What passes through the styloid foramen?

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CNVII

Stylomastoid artery

42
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What passes through the jugular foramen/fossa?

What two bones is the jugular foramen between?

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CNIX
CNX
CNXI

Temporal and occipital

43
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Articulations of occipital bone?

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Parietals
Temporals
Sphenoid

44
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Par lateralis of the occipital

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Unfused lateral parts of occipital bone in young children

Forms occipital condyles that articulate with C1

45
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Basilar process of the occipital

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Undergoes synchondrosis to form a joint with sphenoid

46
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What passes through the foramen magnum?

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Spinal chord

47
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What attaches to the superior nuchal line of the occipital?

48
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What attaches to the middle nuchal line of the occipital?

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Semispinalis capitis

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What attaches to the inferior nuchal line of the occipital?

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Rectus capitis posterior

50
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Cruciform eminence

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Cross shaped ridges that split the occipital bone into 4 sections
Found endocranially
Composed of four fossae

51
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What does the superior fossae of the cruciform eminence house?

52
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What is the transverse sulcus of the occipital?

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Groove for the transverse sinus which is continued from the parietal

53
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Jugular notch of the occipital

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Forms posterior border of jugular foramen

anterior portion formed by petrous portion of temporal bone

54
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What passes through the hypoglossal canal?

55
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Articulations of sphenoid bone

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Frontal
Parietal
Ethmoid
Zygomatics
Temporals
Occipital
Palatine
Vomer
56
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Greater wing of sphenoid

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Articulates with frontal, parietal and temporal bones

57
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Lesser wing of sphenoid

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Sits internally

58
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Medial and lateral ptyregoid plates of sphenoid

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Sit inferio-posteriorly in the ptyregoid fossa
Open posteriorly
Articulate with palatine and maxilla

59
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Function of ptyregoid muscles

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Opening and closing of mouth

60
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Where does the pituitary gland sit?

A

Sella turcica

61
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Clinoid fossa of the sphenoid

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Surrounds sella turcica on four corners

Sometimes forms a foramen

62
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What passes through superior orbital fissure?

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CNIII
CNIV
CNVI

63
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Where is the superior orbital fissure?

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Inferior to the lesser wing

Posterior surface of the orbit

64
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What passes through the foramen spinosum?

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Middle meningeal artery

65
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What passes through the foramen rotundum?

66
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What passes through foramen ovale

67
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What passes through formen lacerum?

A

Carotid artery

68
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Articulations of zygomatic bone

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Frontal
Temporal
Maxilla
Sphenoid

69
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What passes through the zygomaticotermporal foramen?

70
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Articulations of maxilla

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Zygomatic
Nasal
Frontal
Lacrimal
Palatine
Sphenoid
Ethmoid
71
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What is the frontal process of the maxilla part of?

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Nasal aperture

72
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What is in the alveolar process of the maxilla?

A

Tooth sockets

73
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What does the palatine process form?

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Anterior 2/3rds of palate and nasal cavity

74
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What does the anterior nasal spine form?

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Most inferior and anterior part of nasal aperture

75
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What is the canine eminence formed by?

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Large single root of the canine

76
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What passes through the incisive foramen?

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Blood vessels which supply the palate

77
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What passes through the infraorbital foramen?

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Infraorbital artery

Infraorbital vein

78
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What separates the maxilla and the palatine bones?

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Transverse palatine suture

79
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What passes through the greater and lesser palatine foramen?

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Arteries and nerves

80
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What do the nasal bones articulate with?

A

Frontal

Maxilla

81
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Articulations of the lacrimal bones?

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Maxilla
Ethmoid
Frontal
(contribute to orbit)

82
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What is inferior to the lacrimal bones?

83
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How many bones does the ethmoid articulate with?

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13:
2 x nasal
2 x maxillae
2 x lacrimal 
2 x palatine
2 x inferior conchae
frontal
vomer
sphenoid
84
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What is large surface area of ethmoid used for?

85
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What is in the cribiform plate?

A

Olfactory foramina

86
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What passes through the olfactory foramina?

87
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What does the inferior nasal conchae articulate with?

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Ethmoid
Maxilla
Lacrimal
Palatine

88
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Location of vomer?

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Deep in nasal aperture

89
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Function of vomer?

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Covered in sensitive tissue that aids smell

90
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Articulations of vomer?

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Ethmoid
Sphenoid
Maxilla
Palatine

91
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Where are the ear ossicles found?

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Middle ear

92
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Function of ear ossicles?

A

Conduct sound to middle ear

93
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Articulations of mandible

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Temporal

Indirectly - hyoid

94
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What attaches to the coronoid process of the mandible?

A

Temporalis

95
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What attaches to the gonial angle of the mandible?

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Masseter

usually has a bump = gonial flaring

96
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What attaches to the mental spines of the mandible?

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Genioglossus

97
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What passes through the mylohyoid groove of the mandible?

A

Mylohyoid vessels

CNV

98
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What is the mylohyoid line of the mandible?

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Continuation of mylohyoid groove

Attachement site of mylohyoid

99
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Where and what are the sublingual and submandibular fossae?

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Above (sublingual) and below (submandibular) mylohyoid line

Space for the salivary glands

100
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What exits the mental foramen of the mandible?

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