Head: Skull, face, and scalp Flashcards
The 6 bones that make up the neurocranium:
frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, occipital, temporal, parietal
The 7 bones that make up the viscerocranium:
mandibular, vomer, maxilla, zygomatic, palatine, nasal, lacrimal
Suture between the frontal and parietal bones:
coronal
Suture between the parietal and occipital bones:
lambdoid
Suture between the parietal and temporal bones:
squamous
Suture between the parietal bones:
sagittal
Junction of lambdoid and sagittal sutures:
lamba suture
Junction of coronal and sagittal sutures:
bregma
Junction of sphenoid, parietal, temporal, and frontal bones:
pterion
Junction of frontonasal and internasal sutures:
nasion
Junction of parietomastoid, occipitomastoid, and lambdoid sutures:
asterion
Where the coronal, sagittal, and frontal sutures are was once the
anterior fontanelle
Where the sagittal and lamboid sutures are was once the
posterior fontanelle
Where the mastoid process, occipital and parietal bones intersect was once the
mastoid fontanelle
The pterion is a weak point of the skull also known as the
sphenoid fontanelle