Head and Neck Week 1 - Wet room Flashcards
What is the most common joint seen between most bones in the skull?
fibrous joints
The skull is divided into what 3 parts?
- neuro-cranium
- the facial skull (viscera-cranium)
- mandible
A?
Periosteum
B?
Compact bone
C?
Spongy bone (diploe)
Which part of a skull bone has red marrow?
Spongy bone (cancellous)
A?
parietal bone
B?
maxillary bone
C?
forntal bone
D?
sphenoid bone
E?
Zygomatic bone
F?
mandible
G?
temporal bone
H?
Occipital bone
A?
saggital suture
B?
Lambdoid suture
C?
Coronal suture
What suture is between the 2 parietal bones?
saggital suture
What suture if between the parietal and forntal bones?
coronal suture
What suture is between the patieral and occipital bones?
lamboid suture
A?
ethmoid bone
B?
Nasal bone
What bone is the occipital proturbance a part of?
occipital bone
What bone is the mastoid process and styloid process a part of?
temporal bone
What bone is the zygomatic arch a part of?
temporal bone
zygomatic bone
Bone are the occipital condyles a part of?
occipital bone
On the floor of the skull what are the three different fossae?
Anterior cranial fossa
Middle cranial fossa
Posterior cranial fossa
What is the blue area?
(sphenoid bone)
the body
What is the red area?
greater wing
What is the green area?
lesser wing
What is the yellow area?
pterygoid process
Where would the pituatary fossa be found?
in the body of the sphenoid bone
What do the palatine bones form?
part of the hard palate
Whata re the 2 pterygoid plates of the sphenoid bone?
Lateral and medial pterygoid plates
What is the largest foramen on the posterior cranial fossa
foramen magnus
What structures pass through the foramen magnus?
spinal cord
right and left vertebral arteries
The ear ossicles are found within what part of the temporal bone?
petrous part