Axial Bone Markings

Question 1

Supraorbital foramen

Answer 1

2 small holes above eyes

Question 2

Glabella

Answer 2

Between eyebrows
Frontal bone

Question 3

Foramen magnum

Answer 3

Big hole in orbital bone
Houses spinal cord

Question 4

Occipital condyles

Answer 4

1 on each side of foramen magnum

Question 5

What is a condyle

Answer 5

Place where one bone touches another

Question 6

What is a foramen

Answer 6

A hole / opening

Question 7

External occipital protuberance

Answer 7

Outside of occipital
Bump directly back of skull

Question 8

Hypoglossal canal

Answer 8

Sides of foramen magnum
Cranial nerves pass through

Question 9

External acoustic meatus

Answer 9

External hole of ear
Connects inner and outer ear

Question 10

Styloid process

Answer 10

Temporal bone
Protrudes out of mastoid process

Question 11

Mastoid process

Answer 11

Temporal bone
attachment site for many muscles

Question 12

Jugular foramen

Answer 12

Part of temporal closest to occipital
Internal hole
Cranial nerves pass through

Question 13

Greater and lesser wings

Answer 13

Sphenoid bone
Greater extends more
Lesser smaller

Question 14

Sella turcica

Answer 14

Sphenoid bone
Where pituitary gland sits

Question 15

Crista Gali

Answer 15

Ethmoid bone
Part that sticks up

Question 16

Ethmoid air cells

Answer 16

Holes
Olfactory nerves go through
So signals go from nose to brain

Question 17

mandible

Answer 17

lower jaw

Question 18

maxilla

Answer 18

upper jaw

Question 19

zygomatic bones

Answer 19

cheek bones

Question 20

nasal bones

Answer 20

bones in top of nose

Question 21

lacrimal bones

Answer 21

bones in the inner eye
medial to eyes
by tear ducts

Question 22

palatine bones

Answer 22

pallet of mouth

Question 23

vomer

Answer 23

bone in skull that separates left and right nose

Question 24

inferior nasal concha

Answer 24

one in each bottom of nose
swirls air into nostrils to warm it and extract o2

Question 25

condylar process

Answer 25

back protrusion of mandible articulates with the mandibular fossa of temporal bone

Question 26

coronoid process

Answer 26

frontal top protrusion of mandible

Question 27

ramus

Answer 27

of mandible side of jaw line

Question 28

body of mandible

Answer 28

front of jawline connects point of chin and ramus

Question 29

aveolar process

Answer 29

holes where teeth sit in maxilla and mandible

Question 30

mental foramen

Answer 30

1 hole on each side of mandible just below teeth allow nerves to pass through on each side of chin

Question 31

palatine process

Answer 31

of maxilla forms most of hard plate

Question 32

temporal process

Answer 32

of zygomatic bones

Question 33

zygomatic process

Answer 33

of temporal bones

Question 34

lacrimal fossa

Answer 34

holes in lacrimal bones for tear ducts

Question 35

hyoid bone

Answer 35

bone in front of trachea protects trachea and is also attachment site for tongue

Question 36

greater and lesser horns

Answer 36

of hyoid bone like greater and lesser wings of sphenoid

Question 37

mandibular fossa

Answer 37

on temporal bones articulates with the condylar process of mandible

Question 38

mandibular symphasis

Answer 38

point of chin

Question 39

auditory ossicles

Answer 39

3 smallest bones in body in ear

Question 40

fontanelles

Answer 40

fibrous membranes connect baby bones in skull

Question 41

reason for fontanelles

Answer 41

so babies can get out of wombs

Question 42

sutural bones

Answer 42

little bones that form in between sutures only some people have

Question 43

number of cervical bones

Answer 43

7

Question 44

atlas

Answer 44

c1

Question 45

axis

Answer 45

c2

Question 46

atlas vs axis

Answer 46

atlas has no body axis has "dens" for atlas to rotate on

Question 47

number of thoracic vertebrae

Answer 47

12

Question 48

number of lumbar vertebrae

Answer 48

5

Question 49

body of vertebrae faces ____

Answer 49

anteriorly

Question 50

spinous process faces _____

Answer 50

posteriorly

Question 51

transverse processes

Answer 51

faces lateral 1 on each side

Question 52

vertebral foramen

Answer 52

holes in each vertebrae

Question 53

uniques of cervical vertebrae

Answer 53

triangle shaped foramen smallest body bifurcated spinous process transverse process foramen

Question 54

uniques of thoracic vertebrae

Answer 54

sharp and downward pointed spinous processes medium sized body

Question 54

uniques of lumbar vertebra

Answer 54

largest body

Question 55

parts of sternum

Answer 55

1.) mandibrium 2.) body 3.) xiphoid process

Question 56

Number of ribs

Answer 56

12 pairs 24 total

Question 57

true vs false ribs

Answer 57

1-7 = true 8-12 = false 11 & 12 = floating

Question 58

transverse costal facet

Answer 58

facet where ribs touch vertebrae

Question 59

which vertebrae has transverse costal facet

Answer 59

thoracic

Question 60

significance of vertebrae size

Answer 60

bigger supports more weight smaller has more ROM