Day 3 Flashcards
What bones form the axial skeleton?
The skull, hyoid, vertebral column, sternum and ribs
How many bones form the typical adult axial skeleton?
80 bones
What is the name given to the adult skull minus the mandible?
The cranium
What are the names given to the top of the adult skull?
The calvaria or calva
What bones form the neurocranium of the typical adult skull?
The frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, sphenoid and ethmoid
How many bones form the typical adult neurocranium?
8 bones
What bones form the facial skeleton?
Mandible, vomer, nasal, maxilla, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine and zygomatic
How many bones from the facial skeleton (splanchnocranium or visceral skeleton)?
14 bones
What bones comprise the typical adult vertebral column or spinal column?
The cervical, thoracic, lumbar vertebrae and the sacrum and coccyx
What is the number of bones comprising each region of the typical adult spinal column or vertebral column?
7 Cervical, 12 thoracic, and 5 lumbar vertebrae, 1 sacrum and 1 coccyx
What is the name given to the presacral region of the typical adult vertebrae column or spinal column?
the spine
What is the total number of bones forming the typical adult spine?
24 bones
What type of ossification pattern and suture appearance typically forms the true suture?
intramembranous ossification; interlocking edges
What are the classifications of true sutures (sutura vera) based on suture appearance?
serrate, denticulate and limbous
What type of ossification pattern and suture appearance typically forms the false suture?
endochondral ossification; non-interlocking edges
