Skeletal Systems 1 Flashcards by Coleman McHenry | Brainscape

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Where is the Cranial Cavity?

A

Top of the skull

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What is the Calvaria?

A

Top of the skull

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What does the Cranial base consist of?

A

The floor of the Cranial Cavity

Anterior cranial fossa

Middle cranial fossa

Posterior cranial fossa

(depression)

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Orbits are?

A

Eye sockets

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What is the nasal cavity?

A

3-D spaces

Opening of the nose

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What is the bony nasal septum?

A

Ridge in the middle of the cavity (divides the nose)

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Piriform aperture

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2-D opening

Piriform- “pear-shaped”

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What is the hard palate?

A

Inferior, bottom of the skull (roof of the mouth)

Constructed from parts of the maxilla and palatine bone

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What is the Zygomatic arch?

A

Cheek of bone

Constructed from parts of the zygomatic and temporal bones

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What is the infratemporal fossa?

A

depression on the side of the hard palate

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What is the Coronal suture?

A

Crown of the skull

Structure

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What is lambdoidal?

A

Back of the skull

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What is the sagittal suture?

A

Middle of skull

The line between two bones

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What is the squamous suture?

A

Separates temporal/parietal bones

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What is the supraorbital margin?

A

The upper half of the orbits

Feature

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What is the Parietal bone?

A

2 sections of the skull on most superior side of the skull

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What is the External Occipital protuberance bone?

A

Bump on the skull

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What are the occipital condyles?

A

Occipital Bone

Feature

Bottom of the skull

Anterior to the foramen magnum

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What are Nuchal lines?

A

Occipital Bone

Feature

Back of the neck

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What is the mastoid process?

A

Temporal Bone

Projection

ledge pointing straight down (breast-shaped)

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What is the styloid process?

A

Temporal Bone

Thin-pocky stick

Projection

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What is the Zygomatic process?

A

Temporal Bone

Projection

Horizontal line, crease

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What is the Petrous portion?

A

Temporal Bone

Structure

Ridges, inside, back ridge

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What is the mandibular fossa?

A

Temporal Bone

Connects jaw

Depression

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What is the crista, Galli?

A

Ethmoid Bone

Structure

Cockscomb

Ridge inside the head on top of the bone

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What is the Cribriform of the Ethmoid bone?

A

Structure

Little holes

Tiny holes are for the olfactory nerves

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What is the perpendicular Ethmoid plate of the ethmoid bone?

A

The inside nose on top of nasal cavity

Structure

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What is the orbital of the ethmoid bone?

A

Structure

smooth plates which form the medial walls of the eye sockets

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What are the superior and medial concahe?

A

Ethmoid Bone

Project into the nasal cavities

Superior (outer)

Middle (inner)

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What is the greater wing of the Sphenoid bone?

A

In the middle cranial fossa and orbit

Top wings

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What is the lesser wing?

A

Sphenoid bone (structure)

In the anterior cranial fossa

Little wings, under

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What is the sella turcica?

A

Sphenoid bone

Square in middle

The pituitary gland rests here

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What are the Pterygoid Processes?

A

Projections

legs of the butterfly

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What are the medial and lateral plates?

A

Sphenoid bone

Structures

Lateral - outer walls

Medial - inner walls

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What is the body of the mandible?

A

The single bone that makes up the lower jaw

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What are dental alveoli?

A

Tooth sockets

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What is the angle of the mandible?

A

Jawline

Where the ramus meets the body of the mandible on the outside border

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What is the Ramus of the mandible?

A

Upward side, flat

Feature

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What is the Coronoid Process?

A

The more anterior structure at the top of the jaw

Projection

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What is the condylar process?

A

The more posterior structure at the top of the jaw

Head of the mandible or condylar process

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What is the body of the maxilla?

A

Superior to the teeth and contains the maxillary sinus

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What is the infraorbital margin?

A

Maxillae

The lower rim of the orbit

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What is the palatine process?

A

Maxillae

Structure

Bottom of the skull

Forms the anterior portion of the hard palate (roof) of the mouth

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What is the temporal process?

A

Projection

Zygomatic Bones (Cheekbones)

Arch of bone extending posteriorly from the zygomatic bone

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What is the nasal bone?

A

Part of a broken nose

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What is the horizontal plate?

A

Palatine bone

Structure

Forms posterior part of the hard palate

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What is the perpendicular plate?

A

Palatine bone

Lateral wall of the nasal cavity (outer wall)

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What is the opening for the nasolacrimal duct?

A

2-D space

Brings tears to your eyes

Medial opening for tear ducts

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What is the Vomer?

A

Tip of the bony nasal septum

Structure

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Mental foramen

A

Holes on the Chin or mandible

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Optic canal

A

Most anterior holes in the skull

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Superior orbital fissure

A

Superior holes inside the eye socket (Upper part of the boomerang shape)

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Inferior orbital fissure

A

Inferior holes inside of the eye socket

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External acoustic meatus

A

Hole of the ear canal

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Cribriform foramina

A

Tiny holes in the cribriform plate

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Foramen rotundum

A

anterior holes in the middle of the cranial fossa

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Foramen ovale

A

Oval-shaped holes in the middle cranial fossa

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Foramen spinosum

A

The smaller hole next to the foramen ovale

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Foramen lacerum

A

Larger holes with jagged edges

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Internal acoustic meatus

A

Ear canal, medial part of temporal bone

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Jugular foramen

A

directly behind the internal acoustic meatus

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hypoglossal canal

A

closets opening to the foramen magnum

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Foramen magnum

A

Large opening in the middle of the skull

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Opening of the carotid canal

A

The area around the carotid canal

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Carotid Canal

A

Opens up into the cranial cavity via the foramen lacerum

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Stylomastoid foramen

A

The hole located directly underneath the styloid process

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Incisive fossa

A

Behind the incisor teeth (bottom skull)

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Greater Palatine

A

Near the upper molar teeth (by the hard palate)

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Mandibular foramen

A

Internal surface of the mandible

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Paranasal sinuses

A

The name for air sinuses in the skull that connect to the nasal cavities via small openings and are lined by mucous membranes

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Frontal Sinuses

A

Located in the frontal bone above the eyebrows

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Maxillary Sinuses

A

The largest of the sinuses!

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Ethmoid air cells

A

The space in the eye sockets next to the ethmoid bone

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Mastoid fontanelle

A

Where the squamous and lambdoidal junction meet

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Sphenoid fontanelle

A

Where the squamous and coronal junction meet

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Anterior fontanelle

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Where the coronal and sagittal junction meet

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Posterior fontanelle

A

Where the sagittal and lambdoidal junction meet

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Cervical Vertebrae

A

C1-C7 (Neck)

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Thoracic Vertebrae

A

T1-T12 (articulate with ribs)

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Lumbar vertebrae

A

L1-L5 (lower back)

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Sacrum

A

5 fused vertebrae at the base of the spine

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Coccyx

A

Tailbone

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Primary curvatures

A

These curvatures of the spine are present at birth

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Secondary curvatures

A

These curvatures of the spine develop postnatally

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Thoracic kyphosis

A

The curvature in the spine located in the mid-back region - is also a primary curvature

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Sacral kyphosis

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The curvature in the spine located in the lower back region - is also a primary curvature

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Cervical lordosis

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The curvature in the spine located in the upper back (neck area) - is also a secondary curvature

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Lumbar lordosis

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The curvature in the spine located in the lower back region - is also a secondary curvature

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Vertebral canal

A

The space where the spinal cord passes through

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Intervertebral foramen

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The space between vertebrae where spinal nerves emerge from spinal cord (formed by the superior and inferior notches)

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Body of vertebra

A

Solid flat surface of the vertebra

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Vertebral Arch

A

Surrounds the vertebral foramen

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Laminae of the vertebral arch

A

The roof of the vertebral arch

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Pedicles of the vertebral arch

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The wall of the vertebral arch

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Spinous process

A

Single projection arising from the posterior aspect of the vertebral arch (nose of the giraffe)

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Transverse processes

A

Two lateral projections from the vertebral arch (ears of the giraffe)

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Superior articular processes

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The facets for articulation with the vertebra above

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Inferior articular processes

A

The facets for articulation with the vertebra below

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Superior and inferior notches

A

Together these form the intervertebral foramen

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Cervical Vertebrae

A

These vertebrae are known to have small bodies

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Bifid spinous process

A

on cervical vertebrae C3-C5. Forked.

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Transverse foramina

A

Allows for passage of the vertebral arteries

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Atlas

A

The C1 vertebra that has no body

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Superior articular surface

A

These articulate with the occipital condyles and are located on the atlas (C1) vertebrae

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Inferior articular surface

A

Articulate with the axis, and are more pea shaped

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Anterior and posterior arches of the atlas

A

These are the arches found on either side of the atlas

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Axis

A

This is the C2 vertebrae

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Dens of the axis

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This is what the atlas sits upon and pivots on

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Vertebra prominens

A

C7. This is the first spinous process that you can feel at the back of your neck

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Facets of the thoracic vertebrae

A

These are smooth surfaces where bones connect (specifically ribs)

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Anterior Sacral foramina

A

openings on the anterior side of the sacrum

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Posterior sacral foramina

A

openings on the posterior side of the sacrum

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Sacral promontory

A

Ridge on the anterior side of the sacrum

Q

Sacral Canal

A

Opening on the top of the sacrum

Q

Sacral hiatus

A

inferior opening of the sacral canal

Q

Sternum

A

Chestbone

Q

Xiphoid process of the sternum

A

The small portion on the bottom of the sternum

Q

Suprasternal notch (jugular)

A

Hollow U-shaped depression just above the sternum, in between the clavicles

Q

Sternal angle

A

Horizontal ridge across front of sternum

Q

Costa

A

rib

Q

True ribs

A

ribs 1-7, attach directly to sternum

Q

False ribs

A

Ribs 8-12 do not directly attach to the sternum. Some connect to other costal cartilages while others do not connect to the sternum at all.

Q

Floating ribs

A

Ribs 11-12, do not attach to the sternum

Q

Head of the rib

A

Articulates with the costal facet of a thoracic vertebral body.

Q

The neck of the rib

A

Between head and tubercle of the rib

Q

Body of the rib

A

The main part of the rib

Q

Tubercle of the rib

A

Attaches to facets of transverse processes

Q

Angle of the rib

A

The weakest part of the rob that is most susceptible to fracture

Q

The costal groove of the rib

A

The dark depression on the inside of the rib that protects vessels and nerves

Q

Costal cartilages of the rib

A

Made of hyaline cartilage, and connects the ribs to the sternum

Q

Superior thoracic aperture

A

The top opening of the rib cage

Q

Inferior thoracic aperture

A

The bottom opening of the rib cage

Q

Thoracic cavity

A

This space contains heart and lungs

Q

Intercostal space

A

The space between ribs

Q

Costal margins

A

The “M” shape in the front of the ribs at the bottom.

Q

The hyoid bone

A

The U-shaped bone in the neck supports the tongue.

Q

Greater and lesser horns of the hyoid bone

A

This structure of the hyoid bone is for the tongue and neck muscle attachments

Q

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Top of the skull

A

Where is the Cranial Cavity?

Q

Top of the skull

A

What is the Calvaria?

Q

The floor of the Cranial Cavity

Anterior cranial fossa

Middle cranial fossa

Posterior cranial fossa

(depression)

A

What does the Cranial base consist of?

Q

Eye sockets

A

Orbits are?

Q

3-D spaces

Opening of the nose

A

What is the nasal cavity?

Q

Ridge in the middle of the cavity (divides the nose)

A

What is the bony nasal septum?

Q

2-D opening

Piriform- “pear-shaped”

A

Piriform aperture

Q

Inferior, bottom of the skull (roof of the mouth)

Constructed from parts of the maxilla and palatine bone

A

What is the hard palate?

Q

Cheek of bone

Constructed from parts of the zygomatic and temporal bones

A

What is the Zygomatic arch?

Q

depression on the side of the hard palate

A

What is the infratemporal fossa?

Q

Crown of the skull

Structure

A

What is the Coronal suture?

Q

Back of the skull

A

What is lambdoidal?

Q

Middle of skull

The line between two bones

A

What is the sagittal suture?

Q

Separates temporal/parietal bones

A

What is the squamous suture?

Q

The upper half of the orbits

Feature

A

What is the supraorbital margin?

Q

2 sections of the skull on most superior side of the skull

A

What is the Parietal bone?

Q

Bump on the skull

A

What is the External Occipital protuberance bone?

Q

Occipital Bone

Feature

Bottom of the skull

Anterior to the foramen magnum

A

What are the occipital condyles?

Q

Occipital Bone

Feature

Back of the neck

A

What are Nuchal lines?

Q

Temporal Bone

Projection

ledge pointing straight down (breast-shaped)

A

What is the mastoid process?

Q

Temporal Bone

Thin-pocky stick

Projection

A

What is the styloid process?

Q

Temporal Bone

Projection

Horizontal line, crease

A

What is the Zygomatic process?

Q

Temporal Bone

Structure

Ridges, inside, back ridge

A

What is the Petrous portion?

Q

Temporal Bone

Connects jaw

Depression

A

What is the mandibular fossa?

Q

Ethmoid Bone

Structure

Cockscomb

Ridge inside the head on top of the bone

A

What is the crista, Galli?

Q

Structure

Little holes

Tiny holes are for the olfactory nerves

A

What is the Cribriform of the Ethmoid bone?

Q

The inside nose on top of nasal cavity

Structure

A

What is the perpendicular Ethmoid plate of the ethmoid bone?

Q

Structure

smooth plates which form the medial walls of the eye sockets

A

What is the orbital of the ethmoid bone?

Q

Ethmoid Bone

Project into the nasal cavities

Superior (outer)

Middle (inner)

A

What are the superior and medial concahe?

Q

In the middle cranial fossa and orbit

Top wings

A

What is the greater wing of the Sphenoid bone?

Q

Sphenoid bone (structure)

In the anterior cranial fossa

Little wings, under

A

What is the lesser wing?

Q

Sphenoid bone

Square in middle

The pituitary gland rests here

A

What is the sella turcica?

Q

Projections

legs of the butterfly

A

What are the Pterygoid Processes?

Q

Sphenoid bone

Structures

Lateral - outer walls

Medial - inner walls

A

What are the medial and lateral plates?

Q

The single bone that makes up the lower jaw

A

What is the body of the mandible?

Q

Tooth sockets

A

What are dental alveoli?

Q

Jawline

Where the ramus meets the body of the mandible on the outside border

A

What is the angle of the mandible?

Q

Upward side, flat

Feature

A

What is the Ramus of the mandible?

Q

The more anterior structure at the top of the jaw

Projection

A

What is the Coronoid Process?

Q

The more posterior structure at the top of the jaw

Head of the mandible or condylar process

A

What is the condylar process?

Q

Superior to the teeth and contains the maxillary sinus

A

What is the body of the maxilla?

Q

Maxillae

The lower rim of the orbit

A

What is the infraorbital margin?

Q

Maxillae

Structure

Bottom of the skull

Forms the anterior portion of the hard palate (roof) of the mouth

A

What is the palatine process?

Q

Projection

Zygomatic Bones (Cheekbones)

Arch of bone extending posteriorly from the zygomatic bone

A

What is the temporal process?

Q

Part of a broken nose

A

What is the nasal bone?

Q

Palatine bone

Structure

Forms posterior part of the hard palate

A

What is the horizontal plate?

Q

Palatine bone

Lateral wall of the nasal cavity (outer wall)

A

What is the perpendicular plate?

Q

2-D space

Brings tears to your eyes

Medial opening for tear ducts

A

What is the opening for the nasolacrimal duct?

Q

Tip of the bony nasal septum

Structure

A

What is the Vomer?

Q

Holes on the Chin or mandible

A

Mental foramen

Q

Most anterior holes in the skull

A

Optic canal

Q

Superior holes inside the eye socket (Upper part of the boomerang shape)

A

Superior orbital fissure

Q

Inferior holes inside of the eye socket

A

Inferior orbital fissure

Q

Hole of the ear canal

A

External acoustic meatus

Q

Tiny holes in the cribriform plate

A

Cribriform foramina

Q

anterior holes in the middle of the cranial fossa

A

Foramen rotundum

Q

Oval-shaped holes in the middle cranial fossa

A

Foramen ovale

Q

The smaller hole next to the foramen ovale

A

Foramen spinosum

Q

Larger holes with jagged edges

A

Foramen lacerum

Q

Ear canal, medial part of temporal bone

A

Internal acoustic meatus

Q

directly behind the internal acoustic meatus

A

Jugular foramen

Q

closets opening to the foramen magnum

A

hypoglossal canal

Q

Large opening in the middle of the skull

A

Foramen magnum

Q

The area around the carotid canal

A

Opening of the carotid canal

Q

Opens up into the cranial cavity via the foramen lacerum

A

Carotid Canal

Q

The hole located directly underneath the styloid process

A

Stylomastoid foramen

Q

Behind the incisor teeth (bottom skull)

A

Incisive fossa

Q

Near the upper molar teeth (by the hard palate)

A

Greater Palatine

Q

Internal surface of the mandible

A

Mandibular foramen

Q

The name for air sinuses in the skull that connect to the nasal cavities via small openings and are lined by mucous membranes

A

Paranasal sinuses

Q

Located in the frontal bone above the eyebrows

A

Frontal Sinuses

Q

The largest of the sinuses!

A

Maxillary Sinuses

Q

The space in the eye sockets next to the ethmoid bone

A

Ethmoid air cells

Q

Where the squamous and lambdoidal junction meet

A

Mastoid fontanelle

Q

Where the squamous and coronal junction meet

A

Sphenoid fontanelle

Q

Where the coronal and sagittal junction meet

A

Anterior fontanelle

Q

Where the sagittal and lambdoidal junction meet

A

Posterior fontanelle

Q

C1-C7 (Neck)

A

Cervical Vertebrae

Q

T1-T12 (articulate with ribs)

A

Thoracic Vertebrae

Q

L1-L5 (lower back)

A

Lumbar vertebrae

Q

5 fused vertebrae at the base of the spine

A

Sacrum

Q

Tailbone

A

Coccyx

Q

These curvatures of the spine are present at birth

A

Primary curvatures

Q

These curvatures of the spine develop postnatally

A

Secondary curvatures

Q

The curvature in the spine located in the mid-back region - is also a primary curvature

A

Thoracic kyphosis

Q

The curvature in the spine located in the lower back region - is also a primary curvature

A

Sacral kyphosis

Q

The curvature in the spine located in the upper back (neck area) - is also a secondary curvature

A

Cervical lordosis

Q

The curvature in the spine located in the lower back region - is also a secondary curvature

A

Lumbar lordosis

Q

The space where the spinal cord passes through

A

Vertebral canal

Q

The space between vertebrae where spinal nerves emerge from spinal cord (formed by the superior and inferior notches)

A

Intervertebral foramen

Q

Solid flat surface of the vertebra

A

Body of vertebra

Q

Surrounds the vertebral foramen

A

Vertebral Arch

Q

The roof of the vertebral arch

A

Laminae of the vertebral arch

Q

The wall of the vertebral arch

A

Pedicles of the vertebral arch

Q

Single projection arising from the posterior aspect of the vertebral arch (nose of the giraffe)

A

Spinous process

Q

Two lateral projections from the vertebral arch (ears of the giraffe)

A

Transverse processes

Q

The facets for articulation with the vertebra above

A

Superior articular processes

Q

The facets for articulation with the vertebra below

A

Inferior articular processes

Q

Together these form the intervertebral foramen

A

Superior and inferior notches

Q

These vertebrae are known to have small bodies

A

Cervical Vertebrae

Q

on cervical vertebrae C3-C5. Forked.

A

Bifid spinous process

Q

Allows for passage of the vertebral arteries

A

Transverse foramina

Q

The C1 vertebra that has no body

A

Atlas

Q

These articulate with the occipital condyles and are located on the atlas (C1) vertebrae

A

Superior articular surface

Q

Articulate with the axis, and are more pea shaped

A

Inferior articular surface

Q

These are the arches found on either side of the atlas

A

Anterior and posterior arches of the atlas

Q

This is the C2 vertebrae

A

Axis

Q

This is what the atlas sits upon and pivots on

A

Dens of the axis

Q

C7. This is the first spinous process that you can feel at the back of your neck

A

Vertebra prominens

Q

These are smooth surfaces where bones connect (specifically ribs)

A

Facets of the thoracic vertebrae

Q

openings on the anterior side of the sacrum

A

Anterior Sacral foramina

Q

openings on the posterior side of the sacrum

A

Posterior sacral foramina

Q

Ridge on the anterior side of the sacrum

A

Sacral promontory

Q

Opening on the top of the sacrum

A

Sacral Canal

Q

inferior opening of the sacral canal

A

Sacral hiatus

Q

Chestbone

A

Sternum

Q

The small portion on the bottom of the sternum

A

Xiphoid process of the sternum

Q

Hollow U-shaped depression just above the sternum, in between the clavicles

A

Suprasternal notch (jugular)

Q

Horizontal ridge across front of sternum

A

Sternal angle

Q

rib

A

Costa

Q

ribs 1-7, attach directly to sternum

A

True ribs

Q

Ribs 8-12 do not directly attach to the sternum. Some connect to other costal cartilages while others do not connect to the sternum at all.

A

False ribs

Q

Ribs 11-12, do not attach to the sternum

A

Floating ribs

Q

Articulates with the costal facet of a thoracic vertebral body.

A

Head of the rib

Q

Between head and tubercle of the rib

A

The neck of the rib

Q

The main part of the rib

A

Body of the rib

Q

Attaches to facets of transverse processes

A

Tubercle of the rib

Q

The weakest part of the rob that is most susceptible to fracture

A

Angle of the rib

Q

The dark depression on the inside of the rib that protects vessels and nerves

A

The costal groove of the rib

Q

Made of hyaline cartilage, and connects the ribs to the sternum

A

Costal cartilages of the rib

Q

The top opening of the rib cage

A

Superior thoracic aperture

Q

The bottom opening of the rib cage

A

Inferior thoracic aperture

Q

This space contains heart and lungs

A

Thoracic cavity

Q

The space between ribs

A

Intercostal space

Q

The “M” shape in the front of the ribs at the bottom.

A

Costal margins

Q

The U-shaped bone in the neck supports the tongue.

A

The hyoid bone

Q

This structure of the hyoid bone is for the tongue and neck muscle attachments

A

Greater and lesser horns of the hyoid bone

Q

A