Head, Neck And Face

Question 1

What bones form the cranium?

Answer 1

The parietal, occipital, frontal and temporal bones.

Question 2

What are the bones of the face?

Answer 2

the zygomatic bone, the nasal bone, the maxilla and the mandible.

Question 3

Where can you find the frontal bone?

Answer 3

The forehead

Question 4

Where can you find the parietal bone?

Answer 4

Top of the head

Question 5

What can you find the occipital bone?

Answer 5

Back of the head

Question 6

Where is the zygomatic bone?

Answer 6

Cheeks

Question 7

Where is the maxilla?

Answer 7

Top of mouth and around nose.

Question 8

Where is the mandible?

Answer 8

The jaw

Question 9

Where can you feel the mastoid process?

Answer 9

Behind the ears

Question 10

What is the join called that connects the frontal bone to the parietal bone?

Answer 10

Coronal suture

Question 11

What is the edge of the eye socket called?

Answer 11

Supraorbital margin

Question 12

What is the hyoid bone?

Answer 12

A mobile U-shaped bone lies horizontally at the level of the angle
under the chin with the convex curve
pointing forwards, about 2.5 cm superior to the larynx (voice box).

Question 13

How many vertebrae in the neck?

Answer 13

7 (c1-c7)

Question 14

C1 can also be called?

Answer 14

Atlas

Question 15

C2 can also be called?

Answer 15

Axis

Question 16

What is the ‘peg’ of C2 called which supports rotation?

Answer 16

odontoid process

Question 17

What is the big hole in the centre of the vertebra called?

Answer 17

a vertebral foramen

Question 18

What travel through the vertebral foramen?

Answer 18

Spinal cord

Question 19

What travels through the transverse Foramen?

Answer 19

The vertebral artery

Question 20

What the are the eye sockets called? And what bone forms the base of the socket?

Answer 20

Orbital Cavities (the Maxilla forms the base)

Question 21

Where can you find the supraorbital notch?

Answer 21

At the medial middle third of the supraorbital ridge (top middle of the eye socket).

Question 22

What forms the visible sides of the Adam’s apple?

Answer 22

Thyroid cartilage

Question 23

What lies just under the thyroid cartilage

Answer 23

The cricoid cartilage

Question 24

What can the voice box also be called?

Answer 24

Larynx

Question 25

What do you call the fleshy and
fibrous wings of the nostrils?

Answer 25

Nasal ala

Question 26

The external part of the ear is called the?

Answer 26

Aurical

Question 27

What do you call the fold of mucous membrane which attaches the upper lip to the gum in the midline?

Answer 27

The frenulum

Question 28

How many teeth do adults have?

Answer 28

32

Question 29

What are the three pairs of major glands which secrete saliva into the mouth via ducts?

Answer 29

• parotid glands: close to the masseter muscle
• submandibular glands: close to the mandible in the floor of the mouth
• sublingual glands: close to the tongue

Question 30

The head is supplied by what artery?

Answer 30

common carotid arteries.

Question 31

The inner corner of the eye is called?

Answer 31

Medial canthus

Question 32

The outer corner of the eye is call the?

Answer 32

The lateral canthus?

Question 33

The white of the eye is called?

Answer 33

sclera