Bones (Names/Decriptions) Flashcards
Frontal
Forehead
Parietal
2 bones
Sides and roof of cranial cavity
Temporal
2 bones
Lower sides of cranium, part of cranial floor
Zygomatic arch
Arch between temporal and zygomatic bones
Mandibular fossa
Part of the temporomandibular joint (where mandible & temporal meet)
Mastoid & styloid processes
Muscle attachments
External auditory canal
Transmits sound to eardrum
Petrous portion
Contains middle and inner ear
Internal auditory canal
CN VIII to brain
Occipital
Posterior cranium (most of base)
Sphenoid
Middle of base of skull
Touched all other cranial bones
Has hypophyseal fossa (houses pituitary)
Has sinuses
Ethmoid
Anterior cranial floor (between orbits)
Superior nasal septum
Has sinuses
Nasal conchae
2
Increases vascular and mucous membrane surface area
Nasal
2 bones
Bridge of nose
Maxilla
2 bones
Upper jaw
Has sinuses
Zygomatic
2 bones
Cheekbones (and part of orbit)
Mandible
Lower jaw
Largest, strongest facial bone
Lacrimal
2 bones
In the eyes (tear ducts)
Smallest bones of face
Palatine
2 bones
Posterior hard palate, nasal cavity
Vomer
Inferior nasal septum
Sutures
Immovable joints
Coronal sutures
Frontal to 2 parietals
Sagittal suture
2 parietals
Lambdoid sutures
2 parietals to occipital
Squamous sutures
2 sutures for parietals and temporals
Hyoid
In the throat
Not attached to any other bone