Chapter 3: Bones and joints Flashcards
Occipital
Lower back/bottom of skull
parietal
“wall” of brain case on either sides and top of skull
frontal
top of eyes all the way to top of head
temporal
where ear is
nasal
nose
zygomatic
cheek bones
maxilla
upper lip to cheek bones - up to nose (big bone for face)
mandible
lower jaw bone
hyoid
doesn’t articulate (form joint) by adam’s apple - tongue rests on this
mastoid process
behind ear - sticks out
styloid process
sharp and pointy end of bones
suture
sticking/ sewing you up
foramen magnum
large hole - brain stem comes out of big hole in skull
cervical vertebrae
7
neck area
thoracic
12
upper back - ribs connect
lumbar
5
lower back
sacrum
lower back - fully fused at 25
coccyx
below sacrum - tail bone
makes you not poop your pants
spinous process
the one sticking out the back of vertebrae
body (vertebrae)
main part of bone
atlas
holds up skull
axis
connects to atlas - spins