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Piriform aperture

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Anterior opening, large and triangular

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Nasion

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Midpoint, junction of the frontal and nasal bones

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Bridge of the nose

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Underneath nasion, formed by two paired nasal bones

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Nasal concha

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Scroll like projections that extend into nasal cavity

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Superior /middle nasal concha made of what bone?

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Ethmoid

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Inferior concha made if what bone?

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Separate facial bone

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Nasal meatus

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Passageway found beneath each conchae

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Meatus contains:

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An ostia (opening) which paranasal sinus and nasolacrimal duct drains into nasal cavity

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Nasal septum

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Vertical portion, divides the two nostrils

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Nasal septum is formed by:

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Superior:
Nasal septum cartilage (anterior) and perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone (posteriorly)
Inferior:
Vomer bone

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Coronal suture

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Frontal and parietal bones

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Lambdoidal suture

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Parietal and occipital bones

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Squamosal suture

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Temporal and parietal bones

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Temporal fossa

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Formed by several bones, contains body of temporalis muscle

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Infra temporal fossa

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Inferior to temporal fossa

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Pterygopalatine fossa

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Deep to infra temporal fossa, pterygopalatine canal goes through it

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Hard palate formed by:

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Palatine processes of the maxilla

Horizontal plates of the palatine bones

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Two prominent sutures of the hard palate:

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Median palatine suture and transverse palatine suture

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Hard palate forms:

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Floor of the nasal cavity as well as the roof of the mouth

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Posterior nasal apertures (choanae)

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Posterior funnel shaped openings of the nasal cavity, located directly posterior to palatine bones

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Superior edge if nasal apertures formed by:

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Vomer and sphenoid bones

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Medial border of each aperture formed by:

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Posterior edge of vomer

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Lateral borders of nasal aperture formed by:

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The pterygoid process if the sphenoid bone

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Pterygoid canal

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Small canal that opens into the pterygopalatine fossa; carries pterygoid nerve and blood vessels

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Pterygoid process

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Lateral to the nasal apertures, made up of medial and lateral pterygoid plates

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Medial pterygoid plate

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Very thin, Hamulus process forms on the inferior portion

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Lateral pterygoid plate

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More flattened

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Pterygoid fossa

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Depression between medial and later pterygoid plates

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Foramen ovale

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Large opening of the sphenoid bone, mandibular division of the trigeminal V cranial nerve

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Foramen spinosum

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Smaller more posterior opening on the sphenoid bone, carries the meningeal artery into cranial cavity

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Foramen lacerum

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Second biggest opening, carotid artery emerges here from the carotid canal

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Carotid canal

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Opening in temporal bone, carries internal carotid artery and sympathetic carotid plexus

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Styloid process

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Lateral and posterior to carotid canal, pointed bony projection located on temporal bone

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Stylomastoid foramen

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Immediately posterior to Styloid process, facial VII cranial nerve exits from the skull to the face

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Jugular foramen

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Internal jugular vein, glossopharyngeal IX, vagus X, and spinal accessory XI pass through opening

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Foramen magnum

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Biggest opening, spinal cord and vertebral arteries pass through

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Cribriform plate

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Opening for the olfactory nerve I cranial nerve

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Foramen rotundum

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Located between foramen ovale and foramen lacerum; opening for the maxillary division of the trigeminal V cranial nerve

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Hypoglossal canal

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Opening for the Hypoglossal XII cranial nerve

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Internal acoustic meatus

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Facial nerve VII and vestibulocohlear nerve VIII

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Occipital condyles

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Curved smooth projections on both sides of the foramen magnum

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Pharyngeal tubercle

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Midline projection above foramen magnum

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Jugular notch of occipital bone

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Medial portion of two bones that form the jugular foramen

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Occipital bone

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Single cranial bone that articulates with the parietal, temporal, and sphenoid

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Frontal bone

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Single cranial bone that forms the forehead and the superior portion of the orbits, articulates with the parietal, sphenoid, lacrimal, nasal, ethmoid, zygomatic and maxilla

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Supra orbital ridge

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Curved elevations over the eyes

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Supra orbital notch

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Notch in the supraorbital ridge, supraorbital nerve and artery pass through

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Glabella

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Smooth elevates area between eyebrows, flat in women and children rounded in men

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Zygomatic process of the frontal bone

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Bony projection that attaches to the zygoma

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Lacrimal fossa

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Inside the supraorbital ridge

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Lacrimal gland

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Located in fossa, lubricates eye drains through the nasolacrimal duct into nasal cavity

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Parietal bones

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Paired and articulate at the sagittal suture, also articulate with the occipital, frontal, temporal and sphenoid bones

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Temporal bones

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Paired and articulate with parietal, sphenoid, occipital, and zygomatic bones

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Three portions of the temporal bones:

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Squamous, tympanic, petrous portion

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Articular fossa

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Depression that the mandibular condyle articulates in

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Articular eminence

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Round raised bony structure just anterior to fossa

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Postglenoid process

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Posterior aspect of the eminence

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Petrotympanic fissure

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Separates tympanic portion and petrous portion of temporal bones; chorda tympani nerve passes through

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Mastoid process

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Large rounded roughened projection

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Mastoid notch

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Depression just medial to the astound process

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Styloid process

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Long pointed bony projection, located inferior and medial to external acoustic meatus

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Stylomastoid foramen

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Facial nerve VII passes through, between the Styloid process and mastoid process

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