Axial Skeleton Pt.3

Question 1

What is sinus?

Answer 1

Hallow spaces, Hollow mucus lined membrane in your skull

Question 2

ID the sinus highlighted in blue

Answer 2

Frontal sinus

Question 3

ID the sinus highlighted in purple

Answer 3

Ethmoidal air cells

Question 4

ID the sinus highlighted in orange

Answer 4

Sphenoid sinus

Question 5

ID the sinus highlighted in green

Answer 5

Maxillary sinus

Question 6

ID fontanelle

Answer 6

Anterior fontanelle

Question 7

ID the fontanelle

Answer 7

Sphenoid fontanelle

Question 8

ID the fontanelle

Answer 8

Mastoid fontanelle

Question 9

ID the fontanelle

Answer 9

Posterior fontanelle

Question 10

What is a fontanelle?

Answer 10

Soft spot

Question 11

Why babies have fontanelles?

Answer 11

1. It allows compression of the head during childbirth to make it easier for the mother to pass the baby through
2. It allows for brain growth ( during the 1st 2 years of life)

Question 12

What happens when the fontanelle fuse too quickly?

Answer 12

It produces Craniosynotosiss

Question 13

ID the bone

Answer 13

Hyoid bone

Question 14

What two layers is the intervertebral discs composed of?

Answer 14

Anulus fibrosus & Nucleus pulposus

Question 15

What is a hernia?

Answer 15

A hernia is just when one tissue pushes
through another that it shouldn’t.

Question 16

ID the specific vertebrae

Answer 16

atlas (C1) cervical vertebrae

Question 17

ID the VERTEBRAE

Answer 17

axis (C2)

Question 18

What makes the cervical vertebrae unique from other types of vertebrae?

Answer 18

It has a foramen in each transverse process

Question 19

ID the bone

Answer 19

occipital bone

Question 20

ID the bone

Answer 20

frontal bone

Question 21

ID the bone

Answer 21

Temporal bone

Question 22

ID the bone

Answer 22

Zygomatic bone

Question 23

What vertebrae is closer to the neck?

Answer 23

Cervical vertebrae

Question 24

How many vertebrae does the cervical curvature have?

Answer 24

7 vertebrae

Question 25

How many vertebrae does the Thoracic curvature have?

Answer 25

12 vertebrae

Question 26

How many vertebrae does the Lumbar curvature have?

Answer 26

5 vertebrae

Question 27

ID the type of vertebra. Provide anatomical justification & Inferior spinous process

Answer 27

Thoracic vertebrae . It has Costal facet

Question 28

ID the vertebrae. Provide anatomical justification

Answer 28

Cervical vertebrae. 2 transverse foremen & bifurcated spinous foramen

Question 29

ID the type of vertebrae. Provide an anatomical justification.

Answer 29

Lumbar vertebrae. It has a large body

Question 30

ID the bone

Answer 30

Sacrum