Facial Bones

Question 1

Hyoid

Answer 1

“u” shaped bone, located in the neck, just below the mandible.

Question 2

Ossicles

Answer 2

Malleus, Incus, and stapes

Question 3

Special Bones

Answer 3

Bones that are neither cranial nor facial. The bone of the middle ear. Located within the temporal bone

Question 4

Cranial Fossae

Answer 4

Internal Cranium - resemble the shape of the brain

Question 5

Sinuses

Answer 5

Hollow spaces inside the bone, lined with mucous membrane, drain into the nasal cavity. Found in the frontal, sphenoid, ethmoid, and maxillary bones

Question 6

Mandible

Answer 6

jaw, only moveable bone of the skull

Question 7

zygomatic bone

Answer 7

form the cheekbones and lateral aspect of the eye socket.

Question 8

Vomer

Answer 8

forms the interior portion of the nasal septum. Connects to the perpendicular plate of ethmoid, maxillae, and palatine bone

Question 9

Inferior Nasal Conchae

Answer 9

visible through nasal opening

Question 10

Nasal Conchae

Answer 10

Articulate with the maxillae, has a vascular membrane that moistens and cleans air as it is inhaled. Superior and middle conchae are part of the ethmoid bone

Question 11

palatine bones

Answer 11

joins with palatine process of maxillae, contemplates the hard palate. Posterior part

Question 12

lacrimal bones

Answer 12

small, bone, lateral wall of nasal cavity, medial medial surface orbits. Lacrimal duct for collecting tears, drains into nasal cavity

Question 13

Nasal Bones

Answer 13

size of a fingernail, forms the bridge of the nose, different sizes, oblong shape

Question 14

Maxillae

Answer 14

articulates with every other facial bone except the mandible. forms lateral surface of nose and inferior part of the orbit

Question 15

Bones in the face

Answer 15

Maxillae (2), Nasal (2), lacrimal (2), palatine (2) inferior nasal conchae (2), vomer, zygomatic (2) and mandible