Axial Skeleton

Question 1

If you are touching your forehead what bone are you touching?

Answer 1

Frontal

Question 2

“Where your unibrow grows”

Answer 2

Glabella

Question 3

Where your non-unibrow eyebrow grows (bone)

Answer 3

Supraorbital margin

Question 4

What is the hole where your eyebrows grow?

Answer 4

Supraorbital foramen

Question 5

If you are touching the top of your head you are touching your __________ bone

Answer 5

Parietal

Question 6

What is the suture between your parietal bones?

Answer 6

Sagittal

Question 7

Suture between parietal and frontal?

Answer 7

Coronal

Question 8

If you are touching your temples you are touching you _____ bone?

Answer 8

temporal

Question 9

“Ear canal”

Answer 9

EAM- external auditory meatus

Question 10

If you were a tiny human and walked through you EAM and looked back you would be looking at your ______

Answer 10

Internal auditory canal

Question 11

___________: a bridge-like projection that articulates with the zygomatic bone to form the zygomatic arch

Answer 11

Zygomatic process

Question 12

_________: is a protruding part of the bone that is most commonly associated with muscle attachment

Answer 12

Process

Question 13

__________: located posterior to the external acoustic meatus, serves as an attachment for neck muscle

Answer 13

Mastoid process

Question 14

________: located on the inferior surface of the zygomatic process and articulates with the condyle of your mandible

Answer 14

Mandibular fossa

Question 15

______: suture between the temporal and parietal bone

Answer 15

Squamous suture

Question 16

____________: Pen like projection found on the inferior part of the temporal lobe, posterior to the EAM. This process helps attach muscle and neck ligaments.

Answer 16

Styloid process

Question 17

________: tiny hole found in between the Styloid process and the mastoid process that is responsible for the passage of cranial nerves

Answer 17

Stylomastoid foramen

Question 18

_________: found in the inferior part of the skull in between the temporal and occipital bone, lateral to the occipital condyles

Answer 18

Jugular foramen

Question 19

What canal is directly anterior to the jugular foramen?

Answer 19

Carotid artery

Question 20

_________: forms the posterior aspect and most of the base of the skull

Answer 20

Occipital

Question 21

What the “brain stem” hole

Answer 21

Foramen magnum

Question 22

What part of your occipital articulates with your axis vertebrae?

Answer 22

Occipital condyles

Question 23

What is the suture between the occipital and parietal?

Answer 23

Lambdoidal

Question 24

____________: opening medial and superior to the occipital condyle through which nerves pass (found in the wall of the foramen magnum)

Answer 24

Hypoglossal canal

Question 25

________: looks like a buttery fly and is found in the front part of the skull (inside), important due to it wide-spread articulation (articulates with all other cranial bones)

Answer 25

Sphenoid

Question 26

_______: project laterally from the sphenoid body contributing to part of the middle cranial fossa and the orbital

Answer 26

Greater wings

Question 27

___________: form part of the floor of the anterior cranial fossa and part of the orbital
In between the two wings of the sphenoid within the orbital is a veins and nerves run through a large fissure known as the ________ _________ ___________

Answer 27

Lesser wings

Superior orbital fissure

Question 28

_______________: where your pituitary gland sits, the superior part of the sphenoid bones. Translates to Turkish saddle.

Answer 28

Sella turcica