Chapter 11 - Skull Flashcards
How many bones are in the skull
8 cranial
14 facial
What bones make up the skull cap
Frontal
Right Parietal
Left Parietal
Occipital
What bones make up the skull floor
Right Temporal
Left Temporal
Sphenoid
Ethmoid
What part of the frontal bone forms the forehead
Squamous or vertical portion
What is the smooth raised prominence between the eyebrows and above the bridge of the nose
Glabella
What is the slight depression above reach eyebrow
Supraorbital Groove
What is directly below each eyebrow
Supercilliary arch
What is the superior rim of each orbit
Supraorbital margin
What is the small foramen in the supraorbital margin
Supraorbital notch
What goes through the superorbital notch
An artery and a nerve
What are large prominences of the squamous portion of the frontal bone
Frontal tuberosity
The orbital or horizontal portion of the frontal bone can be better viewed from the ________ aspect
Inferior
What forms the superior part of the orbit
Orbital plate
What lies below the orbital plate
Facial bones
What is above the orbital plate
Anterior part of the floor of the brain case
Each orbital plate is separated by the ________ _____
Ethmoid notch
What makes up the lateral walls and roof of the cranium
Parietal bones
What makes up the widest portion of the skull
Parietal tubercles
What is the inferopostior portion of the calvarium
Occipital bone
What is the external surface of the occiptial bone
Squamous portion
The squamous portion of the occipital bone is superior to the ________ _____________
Occipital protuberance
Occipital protuberance is also known as the
Inion
Inferior to the inion is the _______ _______
Foramen magnum
What does foramen magnum mean
Great hole
What passes through the foramen magnum
Spinal cord
Two part articulation between the skull and the cervical spine is called the ______-______ joint
Atlantoccipital joint
What are the 3 primary parts of the temporal bones
Squamous, mastoid, and petrous portion
Temporal bones house complex structures of ___________ and ________
Hearing and balance
What starts from the temporal bone and extends anteriorly to one of the facial bones
Zygomatic process
What is the EAM
External Auditory Meatus
Where is the TMJ located
Inferior to the zygomatic process
Anterior to EAM
What is the slender bone projection between the mandible and EAM
Styloid process
What portion of the temporal bone is thin and very vulnerable to fracture
Squamous portion
What portion of the temportal bone is posterior to the EAM
Mastoid portion
What makes up the upper portion of the petrous pyramid
Petrous ridge
What is the thickest, most dense bone in the cranium
Petrous pyramid
Petrous pyramids house organs of _________
Hearing and equilibrium
Level of the petrous pyramids are at the level of the _____
TEA (top of ear attachment)
What are the two foramen called of the petrous pyramid
Jugular foramen
What is the opening superior to the jugular foramen
Internal acoustic meatus
Internal acoustic meatus tranmits the nerves of ______ and ______
Hearing and equilibrium
What bones forms the anchor for all 8 cranial bones
Sphenoid
What is the central depression of the body of the sphenoid bone
Sella Turcica
What gland does the sella turcica partially surround and protect
Pituitary gland or hypophysis cerebri
What is seen in the back of the sella turcica in a lateral view
Dorsum sallae
The clivus forms the base of support for the ____ portion of the brain and the _____ artery
Pons
Basilar
The lesser wings of the sphenoid bone end ______ and forms the _______
Medially
Anterior clinoid process
Between the lesser wings and the anterior bodies are groove like canals which begin the:
Optic groove
Where does the optical groove end
Optic foramen
What view are optic foramen seen
PA obliques of the orbits
What extends from the sides of the sphenoid body and forms a portion of the cranium floor
Greater wings
What are the 3 foramen located on the greater wings
Foramen rotundum
Foramen ovale
Foramen spinosum
Where does the ethmoid bone lie
Mostly beneath the floor of the cranium
The ethmoid bone sits in the ____ ____ of the frontal bone
Ethmoid notch
What is the small horiztonal portion of the ethmoid
Cribiform plate
The cribiform plate contains many small openings for:
Olfactory nerves
What is the small projection from the cribiform plate tht is similar to a roosters comb
Crista galli
Projecting downwards in the midline of the ethmoid is the:
Perpendicular plate
What does the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid help form
Nasal septum
What is suspended from the undersurface of the cribiform plate
2 lateral labyrinths (masses)
The ethmoid lateral masses contain:
Ethmoid air cells
What do the ethmoid lateral masses help to form
Medial orbital walls
Lateral walls of the nasal cavity
What extends from each labyrinth
Superior and middle nasal conchae
What does the coronal suture separate
Frontal and two parietals
What does the Sagittal suture separate
Two parietals from midline
What does the Lambdoidal suture separate
Two parietals from occipital
What does the Squamosal suture separate
Inferior junction of each parietal bone with their respective temporal bone
Anterior end of the sagittal suture
Bregma
Posterior end of the sagittal suture
Lambda
Points at the junctions between the sphenoid, temporals, and parietals
Pterions