Bones You Need to Know: Axial Skeleton Flashcards
Frontal Bone
Forehead to mid eye socket
Frontal bone-coronal suture
seperates front from parietals
Parietal Bones
bone behind the forehead that extends to the mid back of the skull
Parietal bones- sagittal suture
separates parietal bones from each other
Parietal bones- lambdoid suture
separates parietals from occipitals
Parietal bones squamous suture
separates parietals from squamous temporals
Temporal Bone
Large flat bone above the ear
Temporal Bone- zygomatic process
Froms posterior portion of zygomatic arch
Temporal bone- mandibular fossa
froms temporomandibular joint with mandibular condyle
Temporal bone- external acoustic meatus
external ear canal
Temporal bone-interal acoustic meatus
route of CN VII
Temporal bone- styloid process
connects the lesser horn of hyoid bone, tongue and neck muscles (pointy bone that sticks out from where the internal acoustic meatus would be.
Temporal bone-mastoid process
point of insertion of sternocleidomastoid
Occipital bone
Just below the Parietal bone
Occipital bone- foramen magnum
route of brainstem to spinal cord
Occipital bone- occipital condyles
“yes” joint between skull and atlas
Sphenoid bone
Just below frontal bone behind eye socket
Sphenoid bone- sella turcica
Protective recess of pituitary glad
Ethmoid bone
Deep to the lacrimal bone
Ethmoid bone- cribriform late
froms anterior cranial fossa with frontal bone
Ethmoid bone- crista galli
anchoring site for brain