Skeletal System Flashcards
What is the smallest bone found in the ear?
Auditory Ossicles
What are 7 bones found in the neck called?
Cervical Vertebrae
What is the name for the tailbone?
Coccyx
What is the cranial bone found directly posterior to the nasal bones?
Ethmoid Bone
What bone forms at the forehead?
Frontal Bone
What is the only bone that does not articulate with another bone?
Hyoid Bone
What are the spiral shape bones found in the nasal cavity?
Inferior Nasal Conchae
What are the tiny bones located in the medial orbit, contain the tear duct?
Lacrimal Bones
What are the 5 bones forming the lower back?
Lumbar
What is called the lower jaw bone?
Mandible
What are the bones that hold up the upper teeth?
Maxillary Bones
What are the bones at the bridge of the nose?
Nasal Bones
What is the bone, posterior of the skull?
Occipital Bone
What are the bones forming the posterior part of the hard palate?
palatine bone
Bones that form the cranial cavity
Parietal Bones
Flat bones that articulate with thoracic vertebra
Ribs
Triangular shaped bone formed by the fusion of 5 vertebrae
Sacrum
Bat shaped bone that forms the floor of the cranial cavity
Sphenoid Bone
The breastbone
Sternum
Bone that houses the ear canal
Temporal Bones
Irregular bones forming the posterior rib cage
Thoracic Vertebrae
Bone forms the inferior nasal spectrum
Vomer