Head Flashcards
Name the paired bones of the skull
Temporal, frontal, parietal, incisive, exoccipital, nasal, maxilla, zygomatic, palatine, lacrimal, pterygoid, mandible, dorsal turbinates, ventral turbinates, ethmoturbinates
Name the unpaired bones of the skull
Supraoccipital, basioccipital, basisphenoid, presphenoid, ethmoid, vomer
What does the incisive bones house?
the incisors
What part of the mandible articulates with the skull?
Condyloid process
What is the very top of the mandible called?
Coronoid process
What is the genu of the mandible?
Where the L/R meet
Where do sensory nerves for teeth enter and leave?
Enter inferior alveolar foramen
exit mental foramen
What passes through infraorbital foramen?
Infraorbital nerve
What bones fuse to form the hard palate?
Palatine, maxilla, incisive
What makes up the primary and secondary palate?
Primary- lip and incisive bone
Secondary- hard and soft palate
What 3 bones make up the occipital bone?
supraccipital, exoccoiptal, basioccipital
Where does the spinal cord leave?
Foramen magnum
What articulates with C1?
Occipital condyles
What does the hyoid apparatus support?
Tongue and larynx
What causes a cleft lip and a cleft palate?
Cleft lip- failure to close primary palate
Cleft palate- failure to close secondary palate
What is syringomyelia?
Occipital bone is undersized and cerebellum presses against foramen magnum and interrupts flow of CSF
Name and example of a dolichocephalic, mesaticephalic and brachycephalic
Dolichocephalic- greyhound
Mesaticephalic- German shepard
Brachycephalic- bull dog
What problems arise in brachycephalic dogs?
Occluded nostrils, long soft palate causes difficulty breathing, unusual number of teeth, exophthalmic eyes- too small sockets
Give an example of a horse breed with the following head shape: Convex, Straight, Concave
Convex- shire
Straight- thoroughbred
Concave- Arab
What are the functions of the nasal cavity?
Warm and humidify air, filter particles, detect odour
What divides the nasal cavity?
The nasal septum by the ethmoid bone and cartilage
What is the space in the nasal cavity mainly taken up by?
Turbinate bones
What is the space between turbinate bones called?
meatii
Where are the turbinate bones origin?
Nasal and maxilla walls
What are the three groups of turbinates?
Ethmoturbinates, dorsal turbinates, ventral turbinates
Where are the ethmoturbinates attached?
nasal septum, lateral nasal wall, crib form plate and ethmoid bone
Where do dorsal turbinates attach?
Nasal wall
Where do ventral turbinates attach?
Maxilla
What are the different meatii?
Dorsal at top, middle between, common (connects all), ventral
What are the two main sinuses?
Frontal and maxillary
What are the functions of sinuses?
mechanical protection, enlarge skull without weight, provide larger SA for muscle attachment, allows larger oral cavity
How many separate compartments make uo the frontal sinus?
5
What lines the nasal sinuses?
Nasal epithelium
Where do horns arise from?
Cornual process of frontal bone