Skeletal System of the Cat

Question 1

The Axial skeleton is consists of

Answer 1

Skull, Mandible, Hyoid, Apparatus, Vertebral column, ribs and sternum

Question 2

On the dorsal surface, the following bones and structure should be identified

Answer 2

Skull

Question 3

A pair of bones forming the lower boundary of the external nares, each bone bears three small incisor teeth

Answer 3

Premaxillary bones

Question 4

A long pointed bone located posterior to each external nares

Answer 4

Nasal bones

Question 5

Each of there two bones lies lateral to a nasal bone and bears five teeth, makeup the greater part of the upper jaw and palate

Answer 5

Maxillary bones

Question 6

A pair of large bones forming the anterior part of the skull and a large portion of the medial wall of each orbit

Answer 6

Frontal bones

Question 7

Each bone (of the frontal bone) has a laterally projecting

Answer 7

Postorbital process

Question 8

Each of these two bones bounds the orbit laterally and forms a part of the zygomatic arch

Answer 8

Malar (jugal) bone

Question 9

Each molar bone has a postorbital process that extends upward of the frontal bones on the side and a ventrocaudally directed

Answer 9

Zygomatic process

Question 10

The pair of bones is located at a posterolateral region of the skill, each articulates anteriorly with a frontal bone and meets its mate in the mid-dorsal line

Answer 10

Parietal bone

Question 11

A single median triangular bone located between the posterior part of the two parietal bones

Answer 11

Interparietal bone

Question 12

These large flat bones are located on each side of the skull

Answer 12

Squamosal bones

Question 13

The squamosal bone gives rise to a zygomatic process which is directed toward the molar one to complete the ___

Answer 13

Zygomatic arch

Question 14

The part of the occipital bones located posterior to the parietals

Answer 14

Supraoccipital bone

Question 15

This is the anterior of the two large cavities formed between the frontal bone and zygomatic arch

Answer 15

Orbit

Question 16

The posterior of the two cavities, it is partially separated from the orbit by the post orbital processes of the malar and frontal bones

Answer 16

Planum bones

Question 17

A transverse crest extending across the upper part of the occipital bone

Answer 17

Lambdoidal ridge

Question 18

A midline ridge that extends vertically along the intraparietal and supraoccipital bone

Answer 18

Sagittal crest

Question 19

Thin wallled rounded bony eminence located ventral too the squamosal

Answer 19

Tympanic bulla

Question 20

Outer region of the petrous portion of the temporal bone, somewhat triangular and projects anteroventrally adjacent to the tympanic bulla

Answer 20

Mastoid bone

Question 21

The ventral tip of the mastoid bone forms the

Answer 21

Mastoid process

Question 22

The dental formula for each half upper jaw is 3 incisors, 1 canine, 3 premolars and 1 molar

Answer 22

Teeth

Question 23

Each bone of this pair lies behind the maxillary and along with part of the maxillary

Answer 23

Palatine bone

Question 24

Unpaired bone that forms the posterior part of the nasal septum and the roof of the posterior part

Answer 24

Vomer

Question 25

A small elongated bone that lies on the midline behind the vomer

Answer 25

presphenoid bone

Question 26

Each of these is a process of the presphenoid bone which can be seen in the posteromedial wall of the orbit

Answer 26

Orbitosphenoid bone

Question 27

An unpaired midline bone lying behind the presphenoid

Answer 27

Basisphenoid bone

Question 28

Wing like part of the sphenoid bone located on the medial wall of the temporal fossa

Answer 28

Alisphenoid bone

Question 29

Transverse DEPRESSION (me) lateral to the alisphenoid, the concavity on the medial surface of the zygomatic process of the temporal bone

Answer 29

Mandibular fossa

Question 30

A broad unpaired bone that is present along the midline and extends from the basisphenoid to the foramen magnum

Answer 30

Basioccipital bone

Question 31

A part of the occipital bone, it extends medially to form the anterolateral boundary of the foramen magnum

Answer 31

Exoccipital bone

Question 32

Each bears on ovoid prominence that articulates with the atlas or first cervical vertebra

Answer 32

Occipital condye

Question 33

The relatively large bone occupying the nasal cavity

Answer 33

Ethmoid bbones

Question 34

Scroll shaped bone

Answer 34

ethmoturbinals

Question 35

Medial unpaired vertical plate

Answer 35

Mesethmoif

Question 36

A shelf bone projecting into the cranial cavity from the parietal bone it partially separates the cerebral and cerebellar fossae

Answer 36

Tentorium

Question 37

A depression in the basisphenoid bone that houses the pituitary gland

Answer 37

Hypopyseal fossa

Question 38

Endocrine gland surrounded in the back by bony plates together with the bony floor of the fossa

Answer 38

Sella turica

Question 39

The cavity with the basisphenoid located anterior to the hypophyseal fossa

Answer 39

Sphenoid sinus

Question 40

The cavity within each frontal bonne

Answer 40

Frontal sinus

Question 41

Anterior horizontal part of the mandible in which the teeth are embedded

Answer 41

Body

Question 42

Posterior and somewhat vertical part of the mandible

Answer 42

Ramus

Question 43

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