Bones & joints of the skull

Question 1

What is the axial skeleton?

Answer 1

Bones of the vertical central axis- head, chest, neck, and back

Question 2

What are the major structures in the axial skeleton?

Answer 2

Skull, vertebral column, thoracic cage

Question 3

What is an articulation?

Answer 3

Point where two bones meet (joint)

Question 4

What is a head?

Answer 4

Prominent rounded surface of a bone

Question 5

What is a facet?

Answer 5

Flat surface of a bone

Question 6

What is a condyle?

Answer 6

A rounded surface of a bone

Question 7

How many bones compose the skull?

Answer 7

22

Question 8

What is the orbit?

Answer 8

eye socket

Question 9

Which bone does the spinal cord exit the cranium through?

Answer 9

Occipital bone

Question 10

What is the foramen magnum?

Answer 10

Opening where the spinal cord exits the cranium

Question 11

What is the structure of the skull that articulates with the atlas (C1) vertebra?

Answer 11

Occipital condyles

Question 12

What is the name for the lateral bones of the skull?

Answer 12

Temporal bones

Question 13

What are the openings in the temporal bone that form the ear canal and inner cavities?

Answer 13

External and internal acoustic meatus

Question 14

What are the auditory ossicles?

Answer 14

The three tiny floating bones of the inner ear

Question 15

What two bones form the zygomatic arch?

Answer 15

Temporal and zygomatic bones

Question 16

What is the surface where the mandible articulates with the temporal bone?

Answer 16

Mandibular fossa

Question 17

What bones make up the skull cap?

Answer 17

Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital

Question 18

What is the sphenoid bone?

Answer 18

Bone in the center of the skull that houses the pituitary gland

Question 19

Which bones form the nasal septum?

Answer 19

Ethmoid bone (superior), vomer bone (inferior)

Question 20

What is the name of the joint between the two parietal bones?

Answer 20

Sagittal suture

Question 21

What is the name of the joint between the frontal and parietal bones?

Answer 21

Coronal suture

Question 22

What is the name of the joint between the occipital and parietal bones?

Answer 22

Lambdoid suture

Question 23

What is the name of the joint between the parietal and temporal bones?

Answer 23

Squamous suture

Question 24

What bones create the orbit?

Answer 24

Frontal, Zygomatic, Maxillary, Ethmoid, Sphenoid, Lacrimal, Palatine

Question 25

What bones create the nasal cavity?

Answer 25

Nasal, Maxilla, Ethmoid, Sphenoid, Vomer, Palatine, Inferior Nasal Concha

Question 26

What are the nasal concha?

Answer 26

The projections in the nasal cavity of the ethmoid bone

Question 27

What bones house teeth?

Answer 27

Mandible and maxilla

Question 28

What bones compose the hard palate?

Answer 28

Maxilla and palatine

Question 29

What are the bones and structures involved in jaw articulation?

Answer 29

Mandible, temporal bones, mandibular condyles