Chp 10 bones of skull Flashcards
How many bones make up the skull
22 bones, both paired and unpaired group into cranial and facial bones
4 Functions of the skull
Protect brain
Cavity houses sensory organs
Openings for air and food
Mastication
Most bones of the skull are joined at immovable joints called what?
sutures
What is the exception of the skull that is not a suture joint?
The mandible (jaw bone) is a synovial (movable joint)
The 8 bones that encase and protect the brain?
Cranial bones
What is the superior portion of the cranium called?
calvaria
The flat bone at the posterior inferior aspect of the cranium?
Occipital bone (1)
What does occipitium mean in latin?
the back of the head
What does occipio mean in latin?
I begin or commence
At birth the portion of the skull is usually “born” first?
Occipital bone
What is the large foramen at the base of the skull near the anterior aspect of the occipital bone through which the spinal cord enters?
Foramen magnum
What is a large prominent eminence on the posterior midline of the occipital bone
external occipital protuberance (occiput)
What is a curved ridge extending laterally form the occiput?
superior nuchal line
What are the prominent oval projections at the anterolateral aspects of the foramen magnum that articulate with the first cervical vertebrae?
Occipital condyles (pg. 68)
What are the two names of the occipital bone that lies anterior to the foramen magnum and articulates with the sphenoid bone?
Clivus or basilar part (pg. 68)
The 2 bones that are located at the lateral and superior aspect of the cranium and form a large part of the walls of the skull?
Parietal bones (2) (pg. 68)
What does parietalis mean in latin?
pertaining to walls (pg. 68)
What is the bone that is located at the anterior and superior aspects of the cranium anterior to the parietal bones and form the roof of the orbits (eye sockets)?
Frontal bone (1) (pg.68)
What does frons mean in latin?
a brow or forehead
What are the 4 structures of the forehead?
supraorbital margin
supraorbital notch
squamous part
frontal sinus
What is the part of the frontal bone that forms the superior border of the orbit?
Supraorbital margin (pg. 68)
What is the small notch or hole that is found at the medial third of the supraorbital margin
Supraorbital notch or foramen (pg. 68)
What part of the frontal bone form the forehead?
the squamous part (pg. 68)
What is the space that lies between the orbital and the squamous parts of the frontal bone?
frontal sinus (pg. 68)
What are the two bones that lie at the lateral aspect of the cranium and is the weakest part of the cranium?
Temporal bones (2) (pg. 68)
What does tempus mean in latin?
time
How did the temporal bone receive its name?
Because the hair of this region turns gray first, revealing the effects of age and time
What is the thin scalelike superior expansion of the temporal bone forming part of the lateral cranial wall?
Squamous part (squama = scale)
What is the long, thin part of the temporal bone that extends anteriorly from the anteroinferior aspect of the squamous part to articulate with the zygomatic bone
Zygomatic process (pg. 68)
What is the arch formed by where the temporal bone and the zygomatic bone meet?
Zygomatic arch (pg. 68)
What does zygoma mean in Greek?
a yoke or bar connecting two parts (pg. 68)
What is the oval depression posterior to the zygomatic arch for articulation with the mandible, specifically the condyloid process of the mandible?
Mandibular fossa (pg. 68)
What form the location of the mandibular joint?
mandibular fossa (pg. 68)