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Exam 6. Chapter 26 Flashcards

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Bones of skull

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Surrounds brain and protects it from injury.
Forms facial features.
Participates in the growth process of jaws.

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Malocclusion

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Improper relationship of the teeth and jaws. (Max. To mand. Teeth)

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How many bones in the skull

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22

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Bones of skull decided in

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2 groups:

  • neurocranium
  • viscerocranium
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Neurocranium

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Bones surrounding the brain.

  • frontal (1)
  • sphenoid (1)
  • ethmoid (1)
  • occipital (1)
  • temporal (2)
  • parietal (2)
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Viscerocranium

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Bones of the face:

  • mandible (1)
  • vomer (1)
  • nasal bones (2)
  • lacrimal (2)
  • zygomatic (2)
  • inferior nasal concha (2)
  • palative (2)
  • maxilla (2)
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Suture

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Joining together of 2 or more bones

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Foramen

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Short tubelike opening through bone

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Canal

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Long tubelike opening through bone

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Orbit

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Eye cavity

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Tim of the orbit comes from

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Frontal, zygomatic and maximally bones

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12
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Most difficult view of skull for student

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Inferior view

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Hard palate formed by

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Palatal process of maxilla

Palatal process of palatine bones

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Sphenooccipital synchondrosis

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Major area of endochondral bone formation- develops facial profiles and malocclusions

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Supraorbital notch (foramen)

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Upper rim of orbit. Nerve and blood supply to forehead

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Coronal suture

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Formed between frontal and parietal bones

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Infraorbital foramen

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Arteries and nerves to upper lip lower eyelid and side of nose

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Canine eminence

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Ridge of bone over max. Canines

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Canine fossae

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Depression in bone above canine eminence

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Alveolar process

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Forms in the pockets that the teeth sit in

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Mental foramen

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Mandible-mental nerve and vessels pass to chin, lower lip and labial gingiva of anterior mandible

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Optic foramen

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Opening in orbit where optic nerves enters in

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Lambdoid suture

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Formed from Parietal and occipital bones

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Squamosal suture

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Squamous portion of temporal and parietal bones. - overlapping suture

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Mastoid process

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Projection of temporal behind external auditory meatus -insertion point for sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM)

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Zygomatic arch

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Projects the temporal and joins with zygoma

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Glenoid fossa

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Part of temporal bone where consume articulates (part of TMJ)

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Styloid process

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Projection behind ear- attachment for muscle and ligaments.

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Foramen ovale

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Branch of V3 (mandible)

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Foramen rotundum

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Branch of V2 (maxilla)

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Foramen spinosum

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Middle meningeal artery-blood supply to the covering of the brain.

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Stylomastoid foramen

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VII exits to muscles of facial expressions

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Carotid canal

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Opening for internal carotid artery

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Crista galli

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Attachment for the layers covering the brain

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Cribeiform plate

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Passage for olfactory nerves (smell)

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Anterior cranial fossa

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Houses frontal lobe of the brain

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Hypophyseal fossa

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Houses pituitary gland

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Foramen magnum

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Large opening toward posterior of skull on inferior view (spinal cord)

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Middle cranial fossa

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Houses temporal lobe of brain

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Posterior cranial fossa

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Houses brain stem and cerebellum

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Sagital suture

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Formed between parietal bones (midline of skull)

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Hamulus

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Movements of anterior soft palate

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Pterygopalatine fossa

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Major nerve/blood vessels to oral/nasal cavity branch -between maxilla and pterygoid process.

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Medial pterygoid plate

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Medial ptergoid muscle arises

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Lateral pterygoid plate

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Lateral ptergoid muscle arises

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Maxillary processes

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A) frontal
B) zygomatic
C) alveolar process
D) horizontal palatine

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Maxillary sinuses

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Largest of paranasal sinuses -infection affects teeth and vice versa.

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Anterior nasal spine

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Radiographic landmark for cephalometric films (ortho)

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Maxillary tuberosity

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Bulge of bone posterior to maxillary 3rd molars. -much of growth of maxilla takes place.

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Hiatus

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Opening into nasal cavity from maxillary sinus

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Lacrimal groove

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From inner corner of eye to maxillary sinus- where tears flow into the nose

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Mandible parts

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  • alveolar process
  • body
  • ramus
  • angle of the mandible
  • dividing line between body/ ramus
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Mental protuberance

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Tip of the chin area

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Ramus parts

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  • condyle
  • condylar neck
  • Coronoid notch- depression in the ramus
  • coronoid process
  • external oblique line (ridge)
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Mandibular foramen

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Lingual surface- nerve/blood supply enters

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Mylohyoid line

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Lingual surface- attachment for mylohyoid muscle

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Sublingual fossae

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Depression above mylohyoid line -sublingual gland

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Retromolar triangle

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Area immediately behind 3rd molars

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Genial tubercles

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Midline lingual- muscle attachment (bullseye on x-ray)

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Lingula

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Projection of bone partially covering mandibular foramen- attachment for sphenomandibular ligament

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Submandibular fossae

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Depression below mylohyoid line - submandibular gland

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