Cranium Flashcards
How many bones make up the skull
28
What is the difference between neurocranium and viscerocranium
Neurocranium- surrounding the brain
Viscerocranium- facial bones
What makes up the cranium
Neurocranium and viscerocranium
What are the 6 midline bones
Occipital Frontal Mandible Sphenoid Ethmoid Vomer
What are the 11 bilateral pairs of bones
Parietal Temporal Zygomatic Maxilla Nasal Palatine Lacrimal Inferior nasal concha
Dome shape roof of neurocranium
Calvaria
Floor of neurocranium
Cranial base
Majority of bones in the calvaria are fused via fibrous joints
Sutures
What separates the parietal and temporal bones
Squamous suture
What is a coronal suture
Separates the frontal and parietal bones
What is the lambdoid suture
Separates the parietal and temporal bones from the occipital bone
What is the sagittal suture
Separates the parietal bones
What is the pterion
The connection of the frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid
What injury can happen to the pterion
Extradural hematoma because of bleeding to the middle meningeal artery
What are the branches to come to the middle meningeal artery
External carotid a to maxillary a to middle meningeal a
What are the parts of the ethmoid bone
Superior, inferior, middle nasal concha
What are the functions of the superior, middle and inferior concha
Covered with mucosa
Increase vascular and mucosal surface area
Warm and moistens air
What is the crista galli
Attachment point for falx cerebri
What is the cribriform plate
Tiny Formina that transmit the olfactory n from the nasal cavities to the olfactory bulbs of the brain
What is in the carotid canal
Internal carotid artery
What is in the inner ear
Cochlea and semicircular canals
What is in the middle ear
Malleus, incus, stapes
What is the epidural space of the spinal cord
True space
Contains fat and internal vertebral venous plexus
What is the dura mater of the spinal cord
Tough mother
Outermost meningeal layer
What is the subdural space of the spinal cord
Potential space
Between dura mater and arachnoid mater
What is the arachnoid mater of the spinal cord
Spider mother
Thin, delicate, a vascular
Adhered to dura mater
What is the subarachnoid space of the spinal cord
True space
Filled with CSF
Thin space accessed during lumbar puncture
What is the Pia mater of the spinal cord
Tender mother
Adhered to spinal cord
What is the epidural space of the brain
Potential space
No fat or venous plexus
What is the dura mater of the brain
Two layers
1. Periosteal layer
2. Meningeal layer- continuous with cord dura
Tightly adhered to skull
What is the subdural space of the brain
Potential space
What is the arachnoid mater of the brain
Loosely attached to dura
Contains arachnoid granulations
What is the subarachnoid space in the brain
True space
Contains CSF
Contains cerebral arteries and veins
What is the pia mater of the brain
Adhered to the brain