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Bones-1 Skeletal System & Skull Flashcards

1
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What are the main bone groups of the axial skeleton? Are the clavicle and scapula a part of the axial skeleton?

A

Skull, vertebra, ribs. Nope.

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What are extra bones that develop within a suture line?

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Wormian or sutural bones

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What are bones that form within tendons due to stress?

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Sesamoid Bones (Patella)

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4
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What is a fovea?

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It is an opening in a bone to allow for nerve attachment. Fovea=pit in Latin

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What is an x ray taken from an inferior view of the hard palate to see a patient’s sinus?

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Water’s View X-ray

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Which process on the lateral skull is palpable?

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Mastoid Process

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What portion of the temporal bone houses the small ear bones?

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The Petrous Part of the Temporal Bone

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What is the Turkish Saddle of the Sphenoid? What does it house?

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Sella Turcica, the Pituitary

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What are the three foramen of the sphenoid, Ant to Post?

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F. Rotunda, F. Ovale, F. Spinosum (LACERUM)

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What are the four paranasal sinuses?

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Frontal, Sphenoid, Ethmoid, Maxillary (can you point them out?!)

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11
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What is the syndrome that results in inappropriate removal of the nasal conches for a deviated septum?

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Empty Nose Syndrome

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12
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What separates the brain tissue from direct contact with the bone?

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The meninges

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13
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What is the large hole at the base of the cranium that brain stem passes through? If the brain swells this can cause death. Which Bone of the skull is it found?

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The Foramen MAGNUM. Occipital Bone

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14
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What is the function of the cranium?

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Protection of the brain and associated sense organs

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15
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What are the two parts of the cranium?

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Calvaria (skullcap) & cranial base

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16
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What are the three fossae at the base of the cranium? What parts of the brain do they hold?

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Anterior-Frontal Lobe; Middle-Temporal Lobe; Posterior-Cerebellum

17
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What are the 6 Cranial Bones?

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1.Frontal 2.Parietal(2) 3.Temporal(2) 4. Occipital 5. Sphenoid 6. Ethmoid

18
Q

What do ER doctors tap on the forehead to check for trauma?

A

The Glabella (smooth area above the root of the nose)

19
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What are the three main structures of the frontal bone?

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Coronal Suture, SupraOrbitalForamen, Glabella

20
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What are the four sutures of the parietal bone? What is the intersection of all of these? What Artery is directly underneath this intersection?

A

Sagittal, Coronal, Lamboid, Squamous. They meet at the PTERION “TERRY-ON”. The Middle Meningial Artery.

21
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Which region of the Temporal Bone is palpable?

A

The mastoid process

22
Q

What is the most complicated bone in the skull?

A

Sphenoid

23
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What are the two features of the Petrous Part of the Temporal Bone? (Besides Housing the Incus, Stapes, and Malleus)

A

Receptors for hearing & BALANCE! ; Opening for C.N. VIII (Auditory/Vestibulocochlear Nerve)

24
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What is a fracture that separates the facial bones from the cranial bones?

A

LeForte Fracture

25
Q

Where does the Altlas (C1) Vertibra articulate with the Skull?

A

Occipital Condyles

26
Q

Which canal and nerve passes through the occipital portion of the skull and innervates the tongue?

A

Hypoglossal Canal transmits the hypoglossal nerve CN XII

27
Q

Point out the sphenoid sinus.

A

Kind of have to have a picture eh?

28
Q

Which skull bone has lots of air cells/cavities? Very Unique..

A

Ethmoid

29
Q

Which skull bone houses to the cribiform plate?

A

Ethmoid

30
Q

Which C.N. runs through the Cribiform plate?

A

Olfactory Cranial Nerve I

31
Q

What is the attachment point for the meninges on the ethmoid bone?

A

The Crista Galli(Rooster Comb) of the Cribiform Plate

32
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Where is the labyrinth of the ethmoid?

A

EACH SIDE of the perpendicular plate

33
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What are the 2 scroll like plates of the ethmoid that project into the nasal fossa?

A

Superior and Middle Nasal Conchae

34
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Which Nasal Conche is its own bone?

A

Inferior Nasal Concha (Is it on the Maxilla?)

35
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What are the two main functions of the Three Chonchae?

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  1. Create Turbulence of Air Flow 2. Humidify air before it reaches lungs

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