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What is the purpose of the supraorbital foramen?
It’s a passageway for the supraorbital artery and nerve
Where are an infants soft spots
the anterior fontenal is where the frontal and parietal bones meet. The posterior fontenal is where the occipital and parietal meet.
What is lock jaw
It’s a bacterial infection in the joint from tetnus
Whats TMJD
It’s tenderness in the temporomandibular joint du to inflammation
What is the purpose of the auditory meatus
Its a canal that conducts the sound through the temporal bone to the tympanic membrane.
What attaches to the styloid process
Mandible through the stylomandibular ligament
What occupies the foramen magnum
the brain stem
what do the occipital condyles articulate with
C1
What is housed within the sella turcica
pituitary gland
Where does the brain anchor to the skull
crista galli
What is the purpose of the nasal conchae in breathing
It warms and filters the air going to the skull
What causes a black eye
When the blood vessels running throuhg the infraorbital break
How can the incisive foramen help with brain freeze
it heats the blood vessels if you put your thumb on it
What is the zygomatic arch and how can it identify the species of the skull
It is the connection between the zygomatic and temporal bone. The size of the space between the arch of the skull
How is a cleft palate formed? How is it corrected?
It is when the maxilla and palatine bones don’t fuse. It is connected by surgery.
