Cranium Flashcards
cranium sutures
Coronal sagittal lambdoidal squamosal occipitomastoid
coronal suture
found between frontal and parietal bones
sagittal suture
found between parietal bones
lambdoidal suture
found between the parietals and occipital plate
squamosal suture
found between the parietal and temporal bones
occipitomastoid suture
found between the occipital and temporal
junction points
bregma lambda pterion asterion nasion
bregma
the junction between the sagittal suture and the coronal suture
lambda
the junction between the sagittal and lambdoidal sutures
pterion
the juncture between the coronal and squamosal
asterion
the junction between the occipitomastoid suture and the lambdoidal suture
Fontanalles
soft spots in a babies head that allow the babies head to exit the birth canal
Posterior (2-3 months) –> sphenoid (6 months) –> mastoid (6-18 months) –> anterior (1-3 years)