facial/oral lec 1 Flashcards
What are the two divisions of the skull?
- Neurocranium
- Viscerocranium
What are the 4 unpaired bones of the neurocranium?
- Ethmoid
- Sphenoid
- Frontal
- Occipital
What are the 2 paired bones of the neurocranium? (4 total)
- Parietal
- Temporal
What are the 4 parts of the frontal bone?
- Zygomatic process
- Orbital portion
- Nasal portion
- Coronal suture
How does hydrocephalus relate to the coronal suture?
Hydrocephalus happens in children, who do not have coronal suture yet – lack of suture allows swelling of head
What are the 6 main parts of the sphenoid bone?
- Lesser wings: on top of optic canal
- Greater wings: part of orbit, articulate with frontal and temporal bones
- Medial pterygoid process
- Lateral pterygoid processes
- Pterygoid hamulus: point of attachment for muscles and ligaments
- Sella turcica/hypophyseal fossa: between two lesser wings, location of pituitary gland
Functions of sphenoid bone? (4)
- Gives skull rigidity
- Optic canal: optic nerve
- Foramen ovale: trigeminal nerve – mandibular branch
- Foramen rotundum: trigeminal nerve – maxillary branch
Parts of ethmoid bone? (5)
- Crista galli: superior portion, protrudes into cranial cavity and attaches dura mater
- Perpendicular plate: superior part of nasal septum
- Middle nasal conchae
- Superior nasal conchae
- Cribriform plate: small holes for smell nerves
What is falx cerebri?
Dura mater between the two hemispheres
What are the 2 unpaired bones of the viscerocranium?
- Mandible
- Vomer
What are the 6 paired bones of the Viscerocranium? (12 total)
- Maxilla
- Nasal
- Palatine
- Lacrimal
- Zygomatic
- Inferior nasal conchae (only nasal not part of ethmoid)
What is the only moveable bone of the skull? When does it fuse?
- Mandible
- During first year after birth
Parts of mandible? (7)
- Mental symphysis + protuberance (where fuses)
- Alveolar process (attaches teeth)
- Lingula (helps locate mental and mandibular foramen – mental nerve = part of mandibular trigeminal nerve)
- Ramus (attaches masseter and medial pterygoid)
- Coronoid process (attaches temporalis – anterior ramus)
- Condylar process (part of TMJ – posterior and superior ramus)
- Mandibular notch (between the two processes)
What is micrognathia? What does it affect?
- Undersized jaw
- Affects swallowing, articulation, may cause tongue to fall back into throat or stick out of mouth
What are the 5 maxillary bones visible from an anterior view?
- Frontal process (meets frontal bone)
- Infraorbital foramen (maxillary trigeminal nerve)
- Zygomatic process
- Nasal spine and notch
- Alveolar process/ridge (teeth)
What are the 3 maxillary structures visible from a medial view?
- Maxillary sinus
- Palatine process
- Alveolar process/ridge
What are the 4 maxillary structures visible from an inferior view?
- Bilateral palatine process
- Intermaxillary suture (cleft palate)
- Transverse palatine suture
- Premaxilla (cleft lip)
What are the small L-shaped bones called? What are its three parts? What does it compose (2)?
- Palatine bone
- Horizontal plate (posterior ¼ of hard palate), perpendicular plate, nasal crest
- Composes lateral wall + floor of nasal cavity and posterior wall of orbit
Which nasal conchae is independent? What is between the three conchae?
- Inferior = independent
- In between = superior, middle, and inferior meatuses
Functions of the conchae?
Warming, humidifying, and cleaning incoming air
What does the vomer divide? What does it form? When does it start and stop growing?
- Divides nasal cavity
- Forms inferior and posterior nasal septum
- Starts growing during fetal stage, may continue until puberty
What does the complete nasal septum consist of? (3)
- Vomer
- Perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone
- Septal cartilage