Skeletal System part 2 Flashcards
number of axial bones
80
number of skull bones
29
Cranium bones
Frontal Parietal Temporal Occipital Sphenoid Ethmoid
forehead, eyebrows, superior eye orbit
Frontal bone
superior and lateral walls of cranium
parietal bones
parts of temporal bones
external acoustic meatus styloid process zygomatic process mastoid process internal acoustic meatus
canal that leads to eardrum and middle ear
external acoustic meatus
most posterior bone of cranium
occipital bone
hole at the base of the skull where spinal cord enters skull
foramen magnum
has lesser and greater wing
sphenoid bone
anterior to sphenoid
ethmoid bone
immobile fibrous connective tissue that unite skull bones
sutures
sutures
coronal
sagittal
lambdoid
squamous
frontal and parietal
coronal
parietal
sagittal
occipital and parietal
lambdoid
temporal and parietal
squamous
mucous membrane; resonance chamber; cavity;maintain lightness of skull
sinuses
sinuses
frontal
ethmoid
sphenoid
maxillary
unossified fibrous connective tissue membrane-filled space where bone formation is not yet complete; overlapping of skull
fontanel
largest fontanel; diamond shape; closes 18 months after birth; between frontal and parital bone
anterior fontanel
triangular shape; between parietal and occipital
posterior fontanel
irregular-shaped fontanels
mastoid
sphenoidal fontanels
no. of vertebral column bones
26
pads of flexible fibrocartilage that separate individual vertebrae
intervertebral discs
primary curvatures
thoracic and sacral
secondary curvatures
cervical and lumbar
spinous process, felt when neck is bended
c7
atlas; no body; yes
c1
axis; no; has odontoid process or dens
c2
smallest, lightest vertebrae
bipid spinous process
c3-c7
vertebral arteries pass on their way to the brain
transverse foramen
each pair of rib is connected to these vertebrae
thoracic vertebrae
sturdiest vertebrae
lumbar
fusion of 5 bones into 1; forms posterior wall of pelvis
sacrum
sacrum has winglike projections
alae
4 bones fused into 1; tailbone
coccyx