Articulation of bones

Question 1

The mandible articulates with the ______

Answer 1

skull via the head of the condylar process

Question 2

The palatine bones articulate with the ______

Answer 2

sphenoid bones, ethmoid, and maxilla

Question 3

The frontal bone articulates with the _______

Answer 3

frontal process of the zygomatic bones, parietal bone, and tiny nasal bones

Question 4

The occipital bone articulates with the _______

Answer 4

parietal bone via the lambdoidal suture and temporal bone via the occipitomastoidal suture

Question 5

The temporal bone articulates with the ________ and the __________

Answer 5

parietal bone via the squamosal suture and the occipital bone via the occipitomastoid suture

Question 6

The maxilla articulates with the _______

Answer 6

laterally to the zygomatic bone via the zygomatic process; superiorly with the frontal bone; palatine bone posteriorly; upper teeth through alveolar process inferiorly

Question 7

The nasal conchae articulates with the _______

Answer 7

ethmoid bone, maxilla, and palatine bones

Question 8

The vomer articulates with the _________

Answer 8

sphenoid bone and the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone superiorly; maxillae and palatine bones inferiorly

Question 9

The ethmoid bone articulates with the _______

Answer 9

vomer, sphenoid bone, nasal bone, frontal, nasal bones, maxillae, lacrimals, palatine bones, and inferior nasal conchae

Question 10

The sphenoid bone articulates with the ________

Answer 10

zygomatic, frontal, vomer, parietal, occipital, palatine, ethmoid, temporal