Facial Bones

Question 1

What is the largest immovable facial bone?

Answer 1

maxilla

Question 2

What is the largest movable facial bone?

Answer 2

mandible

Question 3

What facial bone is the anterior nasal spine a part of?

Answer 3

maxilla

Question 4

What facial bone is the frontal process a part of?

Answer 4

Maxilla

Question 5

What bones do the zygomatic bones articulate with?

Answer 5

Spenoid, frontal, temporal and maxilla (facial)

Question 6

The middle nasal conchea and the superior nasal conchea are part of what cranial bone?

Answer 6

Ethmoid

Question 7

What bones make up the nasal septum?

Answer 7

Ethmoid (cranial) and vomer (facial)

Question 8

How are the facial bones lined up from most superior to most inferior?

Answer 8

nasal-frontal process-ethmoid-sphenoid

Question 9

how many facial bones?

Answer 9

14

Question 10

Which facial bones do not have a pair?

Answer 10

mandible and vomer

Question 11

caused by a blow to the cheek, resulting in fracture of the zygoma in what three places

Answer 11

Tripod fracture - orbital process, maxillary process, and arch

Question 12

fracture to one side of a structure that is caused by a impact on the opposite side

Answer 12

contrecoup fracture

Question 13

What are the 14 facial bones?

Answer 13

2 Maxillae, 2 zygomatic, 2 lacrimal, 2 nasal, 2 inferior nasal conchae, 2 palatine, 1 vomer, 1 mandible

Question 14

fracture of the floor of the orbit caused by an object striking the eyes straight on

Answer 14

blowout fracture

Question 15

severe bilateral horizontal fractures of the maxillae that may result in an unstable detached fragment

Answer 15

Le Fort fractures