Anatomy (Sway 1) Flashcards
What connects the inner and outer laminate of compact bone in the skull and what does it contain?
Spongy bone (Diploe) contains red bone marrow
The highlighted region on the diagram is part of the temporal bone, what is it’s specific name?
Petrous part
The cranium can be divided into what 2 parts?
The skull cap (calvarium) and the facial skeleton
What is highlighted in pink and what does it connect the parietal bone to?
The Saggital suture connects the 2 parietal bones to each other
What is the pink highlighted area called and what does it connect?
Lambdoid sutures connects the occipital bone and the parietal bones
Below is a posterior view of the skull, what is the highlighted green area on the left called and what is it a part of?
The occipital condyles are part of the occipital bone
What is the name given to the big red circle area in the middle of the below image
The pterion
What is highlighted in pink below?
The mastoid part of the temporal bone
What is highlighted in pink below?
The squamous part of the temporal bone
What is highlighted in pink below?
The tympanic part of the temporal bone
What is highlighted in pink below?
Styloid process of the temporal bone
Which part of the temporal bone contains the inner and middle ear?
The Petrous part
What is the name of the red area circled in pink?
The external auditory meatus
What is the small area circled in pink called?
Stylomastoid foramen
What is the name of the piece of cartilage anterior to your external auditory meatus?
Tragus
Name the part of the sphenoid bone highlighted in pink:
Greater wing of the sphenoid bone
Name the part of the sphenoid bone highlighted in pink:
Lesser wing of the sphenoid bone
Name the part of the sphenoid bone highlighted in pink:
Body of the sphenoid bone
Name the part of the sphenoid bone highlighted in pink:
Pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Hypoglossal canal
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Jugular foramen
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Foramen lacerum
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Carotid canals
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Foramen ovale
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Foramen spinosum
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Greater and lesser palatine foramina
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Incisive fossa
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Stylomastoid foramen
What can be seen highlighted in pink and what lodges there?
Sella turcica lodges the pituitary gland
What structure can be seen highlighted below and what runs through it?
Optic canals, the optic nerves and ophthalmic arteries run through it
What are the 2 fissures highlighted below?
Superior orbital fissure (1) , Inferior orbital fissure (2)
What foramen of the skull is indicated below?
Foramen rotundum
What 2 structures (left and right) are shown in green below and what do they do?
The tentorium cerebelli separate the occipital lobe from the cerebellum and brainstem
What is the green area and what does it do?
The falx cerebelli is a small vertical fold of dura between the 2 cerebral hemispheres
What is the highlighted green area called?
Falx cerebri
What is the vein that runs along the top of the highlighted area and what landmark does it being at?
The superior Sagittal sinus begins at the crista galli
What 2 veins are shown?
Sigmoid sinus
The highlighted veins pass through various cranial openings to connect venous sinuses, what are they called?
Emissary veins
Label the highlighted area.
Pyramids of the medulla
Label the highlighted area.
Olives of the medulla oblongata
Label the highlighted area.
Medulla oblongata
Label the highlighted area.
Lateral sulcus
Label the highlighted area.
Central sulcus
Label the highlighted area.
Precentral gyrus
Label the highlighted area.
Postcentral gyrus
