Parietal Bone

Question 1

Parietal bone is part of the

Answer 1

Neurocranium

Question 2

Parietal bone articulates with

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parietal, frontal, sphenoid, temporal and the occipital

Question 3

Parietal bones articulate with _ bones

Answer 3

5

Question 4

Superior attachment line of the temporalis muscle

Answer 4

Temporal crest

Question 5

Place where the parietal bone projects downward and is sandwiched between the occipital and temporal bones

Answer 5

Parietal notch

Question 6

The suture between the temporal and parietal bones

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Squamosal suture

Question 7

The squamosal suture continues into this suture where the parietal bone articulate with the sphenoid

Answer 7

spheno-parietal suture

Question 8

The _____ suture touches the temporal bone at a small four-bone intersection called the

Answer 8

coronal, pterion

Question 9

Where frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid bones articulate

Answer 9

pterion

Question 10

Rounded eminences at the outer-most superior most portions of each parietal bone

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Parietal bosses

Question 11

Suture of the parietal bones, create extra islands of bones

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Wormian bones or extrasutural bones

Question 12

Are these structure located internal or external to the skull?

Middle meningeal sulcus
Sigmoid sulcus
Sagittal sulcus

Answer 12

Internally

Question 13

Where the middle meningeal artery leaves and impression against the endocranium

Answer 13

Middle meningeal sulcus

Question 14

Middle meningeal artery enters through the

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foramen spinosum of the sphenoid bone

Question 15

The middle meningeal artery is a branch of the

Answer 15

external carotid artery

Question 16

S-shaped depression on the bottom of the parietal bone

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Sigmoid sulcus

Question 17

The sigmoid sulcus is part of the _____ which drains the brain of venous blood.

Answer 17

Dural venous sinus system

Question 18

The dural venous sinus system runs from the confluence of sinuses at the occipital cruciform eminence, drains around the inside of the temporal bone and exits via the

Answer 18

External jugular vein

Question 19

Runs along the length of the interior of the sagittal suture, which is the joint between the two parietal bones

Answer 19

Sagittal sulcus

Question 20

Sagittal sulcus is also part of the

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Dural venous sinus system

Question 21

On the internal surface of the parietal and frontal bones one can visualize the

Answer 21

Pacchionian/ Arachnoid pits

Question 22

Areas where CSF pools within arachnoid granulations, and leaves an impression on the skull

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Pacchionian/ Arachnoid pits

Question 23

Pacchionian/ Arachnoid pits (grow/decrease) with age

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grow

Question 24

Intersection of the coronal and sagittal sutures

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Bregma

Question 25

Lateral-most point on the parietal bone

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Vertex

Question 26

Parietal bone articulates with frontal bone

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coronal suture

Question 27

Parietal bone articulates with opposite parietal

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sagittal suture

Question 28

Parietal bone articulates with occipital bone

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Lambdoid suture

Question 29

Parietal bone articulates with temporal bone

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Squamosal suture

Question 30

Parietal bone articulates with a short segment of sphenoid bone

Answer 30

Sphenoparietal suture

Question 31

Parietal bone articulates with mastoid part of the temporal bone

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Parietomastoid suture

Question 32

Which structure is found directly internal to where the frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid bones articulate

Answer 32

Middle meningeal artery