Chapter 4 Skeletal System Anatomy: Skull and Facial Bones

Question 1

What is a foramen

Answer 1

hole for blood vessels and nerves

Question 2

What is a meatus

Answer 2

a hole

Question 3

What do a process, condyle, and malleolus all have in common

Answer 3

They are a projection
purpose: attachment

Question 4

What is the axial skeleton

Answer 4

the skull and face, vertebrae, and thoracic cage

Question 5

What bones make up the cranium

Answer 5

Frontal
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital

Question 6

What foramen is in the maxilla

Answer 6

IOF: infraorbital foramen

Question 7

What is the process on the roof of the mouth

Answer 7

palentine process

Question 8

What is the bone of the roof of the mouth

Answer 8

Palentine bone

Question 9

What is the cheek bone

Answer 9

zygomatic bone

Question 10

What is the bridge of the nose bone

Answer 10

Nasal bone

Question 11

Where is the lacrimal bone

Answer 11

in the tear ducts

Question 12

What is close to the lacrimal bone

Answer 12

ethmoid bone

Question 13

lower jaw bone

Answer 13

mandible

Question 14

What is the foramen in the mandible

Answer 14

mental foramen

Question 15

The 2 processes in the mandible

Answer 15

mandible process and coronoid process

Question 16

What suture connects the frontal and parietal bone

Answer 16

coronal suture

Question 17

What suture connects the parietal and temporal bone

Answer 17

squamous suture

Question 18

What suture connects the parietal and occipital bone

Answer 18

lamboid suture

Question 19

What suture connects the 2 parietal bones

Answer 19

saggital suture

Question 20

What 3 processes does the temporal bone have

Answer 20

styloid
zygomatic
mastoid

Question 21

What meatus does the temporal bone have

Answer 21

EAM or external auditory meatus