Head Flashcards
How many Cranial Bones are there?
8 total:
- Frontal
- Parietal (2)
- Occipital
- Temporal (2)
- Sphenoid (mostly internal with a lot of articulations)
- Ethmoid (internal)
What are the noteworthy structures of the Frontal Bone?
- Supraorbital Notch (or Foramen) for nerves to travel
2. Zygomatic Process that articulates with the Zygomatic Bone
What are the noteworthy structures of the Temporal Bone?
Split into the:
1. Squamous Part (flat part that makes up part of skull)
- Petrous Part (compacted part with different processes):
A. External Acoustic Meatus (opening for ear canal) - Styloid Process (for muscle attachment)
- Mastoid Process (bump behind ear)
- Zygomatic Process (articulates with Zygomatic Bone)
What are the noteworthy structures of the Occipital Bone?
- Foramen Magnum (giant hole where brain stem becomes Spinal Cord)
- Occipital Condyles (2 that articulate with Atlas to “say yes”)
What are the noteworthy structures of the Sphenoid Bone?
- Greater Wing (bat wings)
- Lesser Wing (Yoda ears)
- Sella Turcica (houses Pituitary Gland)
- Pterygoid Process (legs that hang down from inferior side)
The Pterygoid Processes can only be seen from:
- Posterior View
2. Inferior View (looking up)
What are the noteworthy structures of the Ethmoid Bone?
“Right behind nose”
- Crista Galli (pokes upward)
- Cribriform Plate (horizontal and on either side of the Crista Galli)
- Perpendicular Plate (downwards right in the middle to form part of Nasal Septum)
- Superior Nasal Conchae (add surface area)
- Middle Nasal Conchae (add surface area)
- Sinuses (Ethmoid Air Cells to lighten head and increase surface area)
What is important about the Cribriform Plate?
It has tons of tiny holes called “Foramena of the Ethmoid Bone” for Olfactory Nerve (CN 1) to travel forward as nervelettes into the Superior Nasal Conchae to allow for smell
What are the Sutures?
4 different Fibrous connections between the Cranial Bones that are sort of like interlocking teeth that ossify around 35
NOTE: All of them have to do with the Parietal Bones
Name the Sutures of the Skull and the Intersection points:
- Coronal (connects Frontal with Parietal bones)
- Sagittal (Parietal to Parietal)
- Lambdoidal (Parietals to Occipital)
- Squamous (Parietal to Temporal)
A. Bregma is “soft spot” in babies where Sagittal and Coronal meet
B. Lambda where Sagittal and Lambdoidal meet
What are the bones of the face?
14 total:
- Maxilla (2 that ultimately fuse)
- Palatine (2 that form hard palate)
- Zygomatic (cheek prominence)
- Mandible (jaw)
- Lacrimal (2 that make up medial orbits)
- Nasal (2 that are the high bridge of your nose)
- Vomer (nasal septum)
- Inferior Nasal Conchae (2 to increase nasal surface area)
What are the 4 paired sets of bones in the adult face?
- Inferior Nasal Conchae
- Zygomatic (cheek bones)
- Nasal (nose bridge)
- Lacrimal (for Nasolacrimal Duct)
What bones do the Zygomatic Bones articulate with?
- Frontal Bone (via Frontal Process) superiorly
- Temporal Bone (via Temporal Process) posteriorly
- Maxilla (via Maxillary Process) inferiorly
What bones do the Nasal Bones articulate with?
- Frontal Bone (via Frontal Process) superiorly
2. Maxilla (via Maxillary Process) inferiorly
What is the Nasolacrimal Duct?
Runs in the Lacrimal Fossa space of superior medial Orbit to drain eyes into Nasal Cavity
What is a cleft palate? What dangers may it cause?
- Improper fusion of the 2 bones of the Maxilla
2. CANNOT create a suction due to hole in hard palate
What are the important structures of the Maxilla?
- Zygomatic Processes (articulates to Zygomatic bones)
- Infraorbital Foramen (nerve travels to face)
- Palatine Process (makes up 2/3 of hard palate and connects to Palatine bones)
What is the significance of the Vomer?
“Tortilla Chip” in inferior portion of Nasal Cavity that forms the Nasal septum with the Perpendicular Plate of the Ethmoid bone
What are the noteworthy structures of the Mandible?
- Mental Foramen (bilateral holes near chin for nerve travel)
- Body of Mandible (jawline)
- Ramus of Mandible (vertical part)
- Angle of Mandible (curved part)
- Coronoid Process (muscle attachment for mastication)
- Condylar Process (posterior and articulates with Fossa of the Temporal Bone to form Temporal Mandibular Joint)
What are the bones of the Orbit?
7 bones total:
- Frontal (majority of superior)
- Sphenoid (posterior)
- Zygomatic (lateral)
- Lacrimal (medial inside)
- Maxillary (infero-medial)
- Ethmoid (medial inside)
- Palatine (tiny)
What are the muscles of the face?
- Frontalis (eyebrow raise)
- Temporalis (chewing)
- Zygomaticus Major (smile)
- Orbicularis Oculi (eye)
- Orbicularis Oris (mouth)
- Masseter (chewing)
- Buccinator (cheek)
Frontalis:
- Action
- Innervation
“Frontal Belly of Epicranius”
- Raises Eyebrows
- Cranial Nerve (Facial Nerve AKA CN 7)
Orbicularis Oculi:
- Action
- Innervation
Surrounds eyeballs
- Forcefully closes eyes
- Cranial Nerve (Facial Nerve AKA CN 7)
Zygomaticus Major:
- Action
- Innervation
- Smiling (draws corners of mouth laterally and upward)
2. Cranial Nerve (Facial Nerve AKA CN 7)
Orbicularis Oris:
- Action
- Innervation
- Kissy/Duck Face (close and protrudes lips)
2. Cranial Nerve (Facial Nerve AKA CN 7)
Buccinator:
- Action
- Innervation
“Fleshy bit of our cheek”
- Keeps cheeks taught to precent biting while eating AND Compresses distended (blown up) cheeks
- Cranial Nerve (Facial Nerve AKA CN 7)
What are the muscles of Mastication?
4 major (3 of which raise jaw):
- Temporalis
- Masseter
- Medial Pterygoids
- Lateral Pterygoids
NOTE: All innervated by Cranial Nerve (Trigeminal Nerve AKA CN 5)
Temporalis:
- Action
- Innervation
- Big Strong fan shaped muscle in Temporal Fossa above Temporal bone that attaches to the Coronoid Process to raise Mandible forcefully
- Cranial Nerve (Trigeminal Nerve AKA CN 5)
Masseter:
- Action
- Innervation
- Goes from Zygomatic Arch to the Ramus of the Mandible to raise Mandible and close jaw
- Cranial Nerve (Trigeminal Nerve AKA CN 5)
What is the Blood Supply of the Face?
Branches that come from the External Carotid Artery:
- Facial (superior)
- Maxillary (inferior)
- Superficial Temporal (not so important)
- Occipital (not so important)
- Posterior Auricular (not so important)