Craniofacial Development Flashcards
What two types of bone is the skull formed from
Endochondral bones and dermal (membrane) bone
Endochondral bones
-cartilaginous precursors
Turn into cartilage and then bone
Dermal (membrane) bone
Bones which ossify directly from mesenchyme
What is mesenchyme
Loosely organised embryonic connective tissue derived from either mesoderm or neural crest cells in the head
What are the 3 developmental parts that form the skull
Chodocranium
Splanchonocranium
Dermatocranium
What kind of bone is the Chodocranium made from
Endochondral
Cartilaginous precursors
What kind of bone is the splanchnocranium made from
Endochondral
Cartilaginous precursors
What kind of bone is the Dermatocranium made from
Dermal bones
Ossifys directly
What does the chondocranium develop from
- 3 pairs of cartilaginous, hypophyseal and parchordal cartilages
- the occipital cartilages
- the capsules for sensory organs
Chondocranium- ethmoid
Derived from prechordal cartilage and olfactory capsule
Chondocranium- body of sphenoid (basisphenoid)
From hypophyseal cartilage
Chondocranium - lesser wings of sphenoid (orbitosphenoid)
From optic capsule
Chondrocranium- basioccipital
Derived from parachordal cartilage
chondocranium- petrous and mastoid parts of temporal bone (petromastoid bone)
Derived from optic capsule. Houses inner and middle ear
Dermatocranium
- Flat bones of the cranial vault and face are dermal bones.
- Ossify directly from mesenchyme (from either mesoderm or neural crest cells) in the dermis.
- Bone of cranial vault complete their development after birth.
- Fontanelles allow bones to move relative to one another.
- Posterior and anterolateral fontanelles close by 3 months, anterior and posteolateral fontanelles close by 2 years.
- Sutures close and in some cases fuse (eg metopic) later still.
Splanchocranium
- Phrayngeal arches evolved from gill arches of jawless fishes (non-gnathostome vertebrates)
- Five pairs in humans 1,2,3,4,6 (5 is either transient or doesn’t form at all)
- Form in rostro-caudal succession (first around day 22)
What did pharyngeal arches evolve from
Gill arches of jawless fishes (non-gnathostome vertebrates)
How many pairs of pharyngeal arches is there
Five pairs in humans
1,2,3,4,6
What are phrayngeal arches lined with on the outside
Ectoderm
What kind of core do pharyngeal arches have
Mesenchymal core