Anatomy Head and neck Flashcards
What is the skull divided into?
Neurocranium
Viscerocranium
Mandible

What is the most common joint seen between bones in the skull?
Suture

What type of joints are sutures?
Fibrous
what suture is this?

coronal suture
What suture is this?

Lambdoid suture

What suture is this?

saggital suture

What part of the bone has red marrow?
Diploe

What is diploe?
spongy bone in flat bones

What bone is this?

Parietal bone
Bone, parietal: The main bone on the side of the skull.
“parietal” comes from the Latin “parietalis” meaning “belonging to the wall.”
What bone is this?

Occipital bone
What bone is this?

Frontal bone
What bone is this?

Temporal bone
What bone is this?

Sphenoid
What bone is this?

Zygomatic
What bone is this?

Maxilla
What bone is this?

Mandible
What bones is the sagittal suture found between?
Parietal bones

What bone is the coronal suture found between
Frontal and patietal bones

What bones are the lambdoid sutures found between?
Patietal and occipital bones

What are fontanelles?
Fibrous tissue that connects bones of skull up in infants
what bone is this?

Nasal bone
What type of joint is the mandible? is it moveable or immovable?
Synovial
Movable
Are the fibrous joints in the skull moveable or immovable?
immovable
OCCIPITAL PROTUBERANCE is part of the ____ BONES
OCCIPITAL Bones
MASTOID PROCESS is part of the _____ BONE
TEMPORAL BONE
ZYGOMATIC ARCH is part of the _____ BONES
ZYGOMATIC and TEMPORAL BONES
STYLOID PROCESS is part of the _____ BONE
TEMPORAL BONE
OCCIPITAL CONDOYLES is part of the _____ BONE
OCCIPITAL BONE