Axial Skeleton (NOVAK) Flashcards
1
Q
What are the 8 bones of the Neurocranium?
(which ones are paired?)
A
Neurocranium
- Parietal (2)
- Temporal (2)
- Frontal (1)
- Occipital (1)
- Spenoid (1)
- Ethmoid (1)
2
Q
What are the 14 bones of the Viscerocranium
(which ones are paired?)
A
Viscerocranium
- Zygomatic (2)
- Palatine (2)
- Nasal (2)
- Lacrimal (2)
- Inferior nasal concha (2)
- Maxilla (2)
- Mandible (1)
- Vomer (1)
3
Q
What are the bones that make up the Orbit?
“FLaME SPaZ”
A
Orbit
- Frontal bone
- Lacrimal bone
- Maxilla
- Ethmoid
- Sphenoid
- Palatine
- Zygomatic bone
4
Q
What are the 17 bones that make up the occipital bone?
A
- External occipital protuberance
- Supreme nuchal line
- Superior nuchal line
- Inferior nuchal line
- Pharyngeal tubercle
- External occipital crest
- Occipital condyles
- Clivus
- Posterior cranial (cerebral) fossae
- Posterior cranial (cerebellar) fossae
- Internal occipital protuberance
- Groove for transverse sinus
- Groove for sigmoid sinus
- Hypoglossal canal
- Occipital (condylar) canal
- Foramen magnum
- Jugular foramen
5
Q
Try to name as many of 22 bones located on the sphenoid as possible:
A
Sphenoid
- Anything with pterygoid in the name
- most of the foramen (rotundum, ovale, spinosum etc.)
- sella turcica (hypophyseal fossa)
- Anterior and posterior clinoid processes
- Optic canal
- Supra and infraorbital fissures
- Scaphoid fossa
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7
Q
What are the 6 bones located on the ethmoid bone?
A
- Crista galli
- Cribiform plate
- Super nasal conchae
- Middle nasal conchae
- (inferior nasal conchae is it’s own bone)
- Olfactory foramina
- Perpendicular plate
