Axial Skeleton: Skull- Cranial Bones

Question 1

Skull is made up of which bones?

Answer 1

Cranial and Facial

Question 2

Frontal Bone contains:

Answer 2

Supraorbital Foramen,
Supraorbital Margin,
Glabella

Question 3

Supraorbital foramen

Answer 3

hole at the ‘browbone’.
remember foramen means hole.

Question 4

Supraorbital margin

Answer 4

‘browbone’

Question 5

Glabella

Answer 5

raised uni-brow section
(my mom gets botox here between eyebrows)

Question 6

Parietal bones

Answer 6

sagittal suture,
coronal suture

Question 7

Sagittal Suture

Answer 7

separates left and right of the parietal bones,
think midsagittal line down the middle.
Runs vertically between the coronal and lambdoidal sutures (horizontal).

Question 8

Coronal Suture

Answer 8

The first frontal horizontal suture (anterior),
separates the frontal from the parietal bone.

Question 9

Occipital bone has

Answer 9

lamboidal suture
foramen magnum
occipital condyles
external occipital protuberance
fossa for cerebrum
fossa for cerebellum

Question 10

lambdoidal suture

Answer 10

posterior horizontal suture

Question 11

foramen magnum

Answer 11

big hole (foramen means hole, magnum means big), where the spinal cord connects, underneath the skull.

Question 12

occipital condyles

Answer 12

raised area by foramen magnum

Question 13

external occipital protuberance

Answer 13

the posterior rough raised area (at the back of the skull, obvious little mountain).

Question 14

fossa for cerebellum

Answer 14

posterior bowl-like structure, behind the foramen magnum

Question 15

temporal bone has

Answer 15

squamous suture
external auditory meatus (canal)
mandibular fossa
mastoid process
styloid process
zygomatic arch
stylomastoid foramen
petrous portion (contains ossicles)
internal auditory (acoustic) meatus
jugular foramen
carotid canal