Day 12 (pg 192)

Question 1

What is the classification of the first sternocostal or sternochondral joint?

Answer 1

cartilagionous (amphiarthrosis) synchondrosis

Question 2

What are the joint surfaces of the first sternocostal or stenochondral joint?

Answer 2

the costal cartilage of the first rib and costal notch I of the manubrium sterni

Question 3

What ligaments are present at the first sternocostal or sternochondral joint?

Answer 3

no ligaments are present

Question 4

What is the classification of the second- seventh sternocostal or sternochondral joint?

Answer 4

synovial plane (diarthrosis arthrodia)

Question 5

Which of the sternocostal or sternochondral ligaments is unique to the second stenocostal or sternochondral joint?

Answer 5

the intra-articular ligament

Question 6

The capsular ligament is present at which interchondral joints?

Answer 6

the sixth - ninth interchondral joints

Question 7

What is the classification of the sixth through the ninth interchondral joints?

Answer 7

synovial plane (diarthrosis arthrodia)

Question 8

How many bones form the neurocranium?

Answer 8

8 bones

Question 9

What bones form the neurocranium?

Answer 9

frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, sphenoid and ethmoid

Question 10

How many bones form the facial skeleton?

Answer 10

14 bones

Question 11

What bones form the facial skeleton?

Answer 11

mandible, vomer, nasal, maxiilla, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine and zygomatic

Question 12

What is the appearance of the intersection of the coronal & sagittal sutures called?

Answer 12

the bregma

Question 13

What is the appearance of the intersection of the lambdoid and sagittal sutures called?

Answer 13

the lambda

Question 14

What is the diamond shaped remnant of developing membrane bone at the intersection of the frontal bone with both parietal bones?

Answer 14

the anterior fontanelle

Question 15

What is the diamond shaped remnant of developing membrane bone at the intersection of the occipital bone with both parietal bones?

Answer 15

the posterior fontanelle

Question 16

What is the glabella?

Answer 16

the elevation of bone over the frontal sinus between the orbits

Question 17

What is the name given to the outline of the nasal cavity at the front of the skull?

Answer 17

piriform aperture

Question 18

What is the alveolar jugum?

Answer 18

the part of the mandible or maxilla covering the root of the tooth exteriorly

Question 19

What is the name given to the alveolar jugum of the canine tooth in the maxilla?

Answer 19

canine eminence

Question 20

What forms a bullet-like chin?

Answer 20

a large mental protuberance

Question 21

What forms an indented chin?

Answer 21

well developed bilateral mental tubercles and a slight mental protuberance

Question 22

What is the name given to the midline posterior elevation at the back to the skull?

Answer 22

the external occipital protuberance

Question 23

What is the tip of the external occipital protuberance called?

Answer 23

the inion

Question 24

What is the name of the linear elevation lateral to the external occipital protuberance?

Answer 24

superior nuchal line