axial Skeleton test 1 Flashcards
What are cranial bones ?
They all touch the brain
What is the axial skeleton ?
Body axis; skull, vertebrae, ribs, sternum.
What is the Appendicular skeleton ?
Arms and legs and the bones that hold them on.
Name this bone:
Location: forehead; anterior cranial roof and floor. Superior eye orbits.
Parts: orbital margin, supraorbital foremen.
Frontal bone(skull bone)
Name this bone:
Location: medial cranium, top sides of middle roof of cranium.
Parts: nose
Parietal bones(2)(skull bone)
Name this bone:
Location: deep to the ear
Parts: external acoustic meatus, styloid process, mastoid process, zygomatic process, Petrous part, internal acoustic meatus
Temporal bones(skull bone)
Name this bone:
location: deep toward center of cranium touches all other skull bones.
parts: body, greater wings, lesser wings, pterygoid process, stella turcica.
sphenoid bone(skull bone)
Name this bone:
Location:posterior wall and floor of cranium
Parts: foramen magnum, occipital condyles, external occipital crest, external occipital protuberance
Occipital bone(skull bone)
name this bone:
location: behind nasal bone, behind eye sockets
parts: crista galli, cribriform plate, lateral masses, middle nasal conchae, perpendicular plate.
ethmoid bone(skull bone)
what are sutures?
they are the joints between skull bones.
which suture is between the temporal and parietal bones?
squamous suture
which suture is between the parietal bones?
sagiteal suture
which suture is between the occipital bone and parietal bones?
lambdoid suture
which suture is between frontal and parietal bones?
coronal suture
name this bone:
location: bridge of nose
parts: none
nasal bones (facial bone)