Head And Neck 1

Question 1

What are the two main divisions of the skeleton?

Answer 1

•Axial skeleton (80)
•Appendicular skeleton (126)

Question 2

What are the two main divisions of the skull?

Answer 2

•Cranium
•Face

Question 3

What cavity within the cranium holds the brain?

Answer 3

Cranial cavity

Question 4

What bones make up the cranial cavity?

Answer 4

•Frontal
•Parietal
•Temporal
•Occipital
•Sphenoid
•Ethmoid

Question 5

What is a synonym for skullcap?

Answer 5

Calvaria

Question 6

What bone forms part of the calvaria the forehead and the roof of the orbits?

Answer 6

Frontal bone

Question 7

What part of the skull do the parietal bones form?

Answer 7

Lateral walls and roof

Question 8

What part of the skull do the temporal bones form?

Answer 8

•Inferior lateral walls
•Part of the floor of the cranium

Question 9

What bone forms the posterior portion of the skull and the base of the cranium?

Answer 9

Occipital bone

Question 10

What bone of the skull has a butterfly shape and unites the cranial and facial bones?

Answer 10

Sphenoid bone

Question 11

What bone of the skull lies between the orbits and forms the anteromedial floor of the cranium?

Answer 11

Ethmoid bone

Question 12

What are sutures?

Answer 12

Fibrous articulations between bones of the skull

Question 13

What articulation between three of these bones occurs anteriorly in a frontal plane?

Answer 13

Coronal suture

Question 14

What articulation can be seen running along the midline in this view?

Answer 14

Sagittal suture

Question 15

What suture lies between the parietal bone and temporal bone on each side?

Answer 15

Squamosal suture

Question 16

What suture appears on the posterior aspect of the skull between the parietal and occipital bones?

Answer 16

Lambdoidal suture

Question 17

What bones occasionally appear within the sutures of the skull?

Answer 17

Sutural bones

Question 18

What cavities hold the eyeballs?

Answer 18

Orbits

Question 19

What two large openings lie within these cavities?

Answer 19

•Superior orbital fissure
•Inferior orbital fissure

Question 20

Within what cavity of the skull does air pass through on its way to the lungs?

Answer 20

Nasal septum

Question 21

What structure divides it into right and left halves?

Answer 21

Nasal septum

Question 22

What scroll shaped bones are visible on the inferior lateral walls of this cavity?

Answer 22

Nasal conchae

Question 23

What is a synonym for the brow ridges?

Answer 23

Superciliary arches

Question 24

What cavities lie within the frontal bone?

Answer 24

Frontal sinus