Axial Skeletal Flashcards
Head Skeleton
skull (including the mandible)
bones in the middle ear
hyoid apparatus
Types of skulls
Brachycephalic - shorted and wide
mesatiephalic - normal
dolichocephalic - long less brain area
3 cavities of the skull
- cranial
- nasal
- paranasal
What is the roof of the cranial cavity
calvaria
What forms the postal wall of the cranial cavity
and separates the nasal and cranial cavity
Cribriform plate
it has tiny holes for passage of olfactory nerves and blood vessels
What contains the rostal part of facial bones
nasal cavity
what divides the nasal cavity into two nasal fossae
nasal septum
What is the postal one boney opening into the nasal cavity
nasal aperture
What is the 2 boney openings at the cadual end of the hard plate
The choanae
What is the air filled spaces in the facial bones of the skull?
paransal sinuses
4 pairs of horse paransal sinuses
- maxiallary
- frontal
- conchal
- sphenonpalatine
6 pairs of Bov sinuses
- maxiallary
- frontal
- conchal
- spheniod
- palatine
- lacrimal
What is the arrow pointing to and its clinic significance
the Vascular notch only present in the horse
you can use it for palpation of pulse
What is the hyoid apparatus
a series of connected bones that suspends the tongue and larynx from skull
Within the hyoid apparatus what is absent in carnivores
the lingual process
What is a clinical relevant palpable structure arch of bone of skull
zygomatic arch
What is the palpable land mark between nasal and incisive bones
nasoincinsive notch
What does the * mark
Facial Tuberosity
The funnel shaped region that houses the eye
orbit
region caudoventral to the orbit
pterygopalatine fossa
The opening of the ear
What connects the hyoid apparatus to the skull
mastoid process
Clinical significance of cornual process
direct continuation from frontal bone. When dehorning you can expose frontal bone
What are the black arrows pointing to?
external sagittal crest