BONES Flashcards
Skull SUTURES: Coronal
headband
Saggital
goes down middle of skull
Lambdoidal
back of skull line
Squamosal
around ear line
SKULL: Frontal
forehead
Parietal
middle/back of head
Temporal
by ear
Temporal: Mastoid process
bump at back of jaw
styloid process
pointy stylus of jaw
external auditory meatus
ear hole
zygomatic arch
by cheek bone
Occipital
back of skull
Occipital: foramen magnum
big hole in bottom of skull
occipital condyles
knobs on both sides of the foramen magnum
Sphenoid
by palate of mouth
Sphenoid: sella turcica
where pituitary gland sits
Ethmoid
bones of the nose
Ethmoid: Cribiform plate
area around the crista galli
crista galli
pointy part of nose
nasal conchea
little nose bone
Maxillary
upper jaw above teeth/mouth
Palatine
back of hard palate in mouth
Zygomatic
cheek bone
Lacrimal
where you produce tears
Nasal
make up nose
Vomer
inside nose by nasal septum
Mandible
lower jaw
Mandible: ramus
corner of jaw, flat
mandibular condyle
top, back of jaw
U shaped
coronoid process
front part of jaw
U shaped
mental foramen
tiny front holes in jaw
Hyoid
little bone in front of neck
Vertebra
bones of spine
Vertebra: body
biggest part, flat
vertebral foramen
hole where spinal chord goes
spinous process
sticks out the back of each vertebrae
transverse process
sticks out the sides of each vertebrae
Cervical vertebrae
smaller, has 3 holes
7 of them
Cervical vertebrae: Atlas
top one
Axis
bottom one
Axis: dens
part sticking up on axis that fits into the atlas
Thoracic vertebrae
medium, giraffe
12 of them
Lumbar vertebrae
larger, moose
5 of them
Sacrum
in hips
5 fused vertebrae