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1
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What is the frontal bone?

A

forms the forehead

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2
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What is the parietal bone?

A

most superior bone of skull

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3
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What are the temporal bones?

A

sides of the head (ears)

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4
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What is the external acoustic meatus

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canal that leads to eardrum and middle ear

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5
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What is the styloid process?

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sharp projection, attachment point of many neck muscles

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6
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What is the zygomatic process?

A

joins with the cheek bone

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7
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What is the mastoid process?

A

full of air cavities, attachment site for some muscles

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8
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What is the jugular foramen?

A

hole where jugular vein passes

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9
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What is the carotid canal?

A

where cartoid passes

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10
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What is the occipital bone?

A

most posterior bone, has the foramen magnum

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11
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What is the foramen magnum?

A

large hole, where spinal cord can pass through

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12
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What is the sphenoid bone?

A

butterfly shaped, spans width of the skull

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13
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What is the foramen ovale?

A

passageway of trigeminal nerve

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14
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What is the superior orbital fissure?

A

cranial nerve III, IV and VI pass through

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15
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What is the sphenoidal sinuses?

A

center of sphenoid bone with air cavities

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16
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What is the ethmoid bone?

A

anterior to the sphenoid bone, roof of nasal cavity

17
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How many facial bones are there?

A

14 facial bones, 12 paired

18
Q

What is the maxillae?

A

fuses to form upper jaw, the keystone bones of the face, carries upper teeth

19
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What are the palatine processes?

A

forms hard palate of the mouth

20
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What are the palatine bones?

A

posterior part of the hard palate

21
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What are zygomatic bones?

A

cheekbones

22
Q

What are the lacrimal bones?

A

passageway for tears

23
Q

What are the nasal bones?

A

nose bones

24
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What is the vomer bone?

A

separates the two nostrils, inferior part of the bony nasal septum

25
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What is the mandible?

A

lower jaw

26
Q

How many cervical vertebrae?

A

7

27
Q

What is the atlas?

A

C1, allows you to nod yes

28
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What is the axis?

A

C2, pivot for rotation of axis and skull

29
Q

How many thoracic vertebrae?

A

12

30
Q

How many lumbar vertebrae?

A

5

31
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What is the sacrum?

A

five vertebrae fused together, posterior walls of pelvis

32
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What is the coccyx?

A

fusion of three to five tiny, irregularly shaped vertebrae, tailbone

33
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What is the sternum?

A

breastbone, flat bone

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