Norman Verticalis

Question 1

What view is the Norma Verticalis

Answer 1

From the top of the skull

Question 2

Name the bones you can see in this view

Answer 2

Frontal, left and right parietal, occipital

Question 3

Name the main 3 sutures

Answer 3

Coronal (across the front), sagittal (down the middle), lambdoid (across the back)

Question 4

Name the measurement point we can see

Answer 4

Glabella (mid point between the eyebrows)

Question 5

Name the two suture meeting points

Answer 5

Bregma (top) and lambda (bottom)

Question 6

What’s the hole called found alongside Sagittal suture

Answer 6

Parietal foramina

Question 7

What is an ossicle and where are they found

Answer 7

Extra bone, often found in sutures or suture meeting point, then named after that place

Question 8

What variations can be found

Answer 8

Ossicles, extra sutures - metopic suture (doesn’t always fuse makes two frontal bones), bipartite parietal (splits parietal bone)

Question 9

What are the superior and inferior points

Answer 9

Top of the head and bottom of the head (neck)

Question 10

What are the anterior and posterior points

Answer 10

Front of head (forehead) and back of head