Lecture 9 & 10 Flashcards
Notes on the skull
Has 22 bones forming the bony framework of the head
The head is firmed mainly by the skull with the brain and it’s covering enclosed in the cranial cavity
United at immobile fibrous joints called sutures
Cranium bones
Frontal bone
Occipital bone
parietal bone
ethmoid bone
temporal bone
sphenoid bone
Facial bones
Zygomatic
vomer
mandible
Palatine
Maxilla
nasal
lacrimal
inferior nasal Conchae
Composition of the cranial cavities
- Consists of the base and the vault
2) Contains the brain meninges
portions of the cranial-nerve
blood vessels and nerves

Short note on the base of the cranial cavities
Has three depressions,
which are
the anterior cranial fossae,
middle cranial fossae
the posterior cranial fossa
The vault
Dome shaped and consists of the
Parietal
Frontal
Occipital
Short notes on the Hyoid
1) Consists of the greater and lesser horn and the body
2) U shaped
3) It is located between the voice box and mandible
4) Only bone in body that has no articulation
5) connects the floor of the oral cavity in the pharynx
different of sutures
Lamoid
Coronal
Sagittal
Lamoid suture
Arches across the poster surface of the skull, connects the occipital bone with the two parietal bones 
Coronal suture
Attaches frontal to the parietal bone
Saggital suture
Extend from the Lamoid suture to the coronal suture between the parietal bones
Obirtal cavities
Lies in the upper half of the face
Formed by 7 bones
And 4 bones
7 bones that form the orbital cavities
Frontal
Sphenoid
Maxillary
Ethmoid
Lachrymal
Zygomatic
Palatine
4 walls that form the orbital
Roof (frontal and the sphenoid )
Lateral ( zygomatic, sphenoid)
Medial ( maxilla, lacrimal, ethmoid)
Floor( maxilla, zygomatic)
nasal cavities : location
Between the orbits and divided into the right and left cavities by the nasal septum