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Temporal bone has many articulations it articulates with?
Parietal sphenoid and occipital bones
What is a meatus?
Large tunnel like structure
Weakest pint in the skull?
Pterion
Noticeable feature of temporal bone?
Mastoid process
What are parts of the temporal bone?
Articulations, mastoid process, External auditory meatus, pterion, asterion
where the frontal parietal spheniod and temporal bones meet?
Pterion
Where the temporal parietal occipital meet?
Asterion
A process that is slender inferior to external auditory meatus?
Styloid process
What fossa is larger than pterion it has a slight concave depression?
Temporal
what is part of the occipital bone?
External occipital protuberance
What forms the prominence of cheek?
Zygoma
What contributes to the lateral wall of the orbit?
Zygoma
Zygoma articulates with what bones?
Frontal maxillary sphenoid and temporal
Zygoma is joined to temporal bone by what suture?
Temporozygomatic
3 major processes of zygoma?
Maxillary temporal frontal
Hard palate is formed by?
2 palatine processes of maxilla and 2 horizontal plates of the palatine bones
What sutures are in the hard palate?
Median palatine, transverse palatine and intermaxillary
Hard palate foramina has what foramins?
Incisive, greater palatine and lesser palatine
What is the location of the incisive hard palate foramina?
Midline, anterior pate
What nerve does the incisive hard palate foramina transmit?
Nasopalatine nerve
What is the location of the greater palatine foramina?
Posterior lateral area of palate
What nerve does the greater palatine foramina transmit?
Greater palatine nerve
What are pterygoid processes?
Large inferior projections
What is the function of the pterygoid process?
Attachment for muscles
Where is the pterygoid process?
Sphenoid bone
What are processes of the sphenoid?
Pterygoid medial and lateral
What process is thinner in the sphenoid. medial or lateral?
Medial
**What is the inferior extension of the medial pterygoid plate?
Hommulus
Why is the lateral process heavier and larger than the medial process?
It has larger muscles attached to it
What fossa is between the medial and lateral process of the sphenoid?
Pterygoid fossa
What are mandibular fossas?
Large depressions in temporal bones
Mandibular fossa is also known as?
Glenoid fossa
Mandibular fossa/glenoid fossa is located in the?
Temporal bone (bilateral from each other)
What 2 prominences that come off of the occipital bone?
Occipital condyles
What articulates with the 1st cervical vertebrae?
Occipital condyles
Where are the occipital condyles located?
Anteriolateral of foramen magnum
1st cervical vertebrae is called?
Atlas
What is part of the ethmoid bone?
Crista galli
What is the cockscomb used for?
Attachment site for tissues
What is lateral to the crista galli?
Cribiform plate
What is the cribiform plate transmit?
Transmits fibers of cranial nerve I
Cranial nerve I is used for what sense?
Sense of smell
Sphenoid bone also has?
Sella turcica greater and lesser wings
Optic canal is only in what wing?
Lesser
