Skull Flashcards
This skull is divided into two main set of bone
eight cranial bones and 14 facial bones
The eight bones of the cranium are divided into
Calvarium and the floor
The skullcap is made of
frontal bone right parietal bone left bone occipital bone
The floor is made of
Right temporal bone left temporal bone ethmoid bones bone sphenoid bone
The bone of the Calvarium that is mostly visible is
Frontal bone
Contribute to the formation of the forehead and the superior orbital part
The frontal bone
What are the parts of the frontal bone?
The squamous or vertical portion and the horizontal or orbital portion
Which part of the frontal bone forms the forehead?
The squamous or vertical portion
Which portion of the frontal bone forms the superior part of the orbit?
Orbital or horizontal portion
Is the smooth raised prominent between the eyebrows just above the bridge of the nose?
The glabella
Slight depression above the eyebrows
Super orbital groove SOG
Slight depression above the eyebrows
Super orbital groove SOG
It corresponds to the floor of the interior of the cranial vault
Super orbital groove
The level of orbit plate or the highest level of facial mass
superior orbital groove
The superior rim of each orbit
Super orbital margin
Small hole or opening within the superior orbital margin
Super orbital notch
The super orbital nerve and archery pass through this opening
Super orbital margin notch
The super orbital nerve and archery pass through this opening
Super orbital margin notch
On each side of the squamous portion of the frontal bone above the super orbital groove is a large rounded prominence termed
Frontal tuberosity
The orbital or horizontal portion of the frontal bone consist of
Super orbital margin super ciliary ridge ,glabella and frontal tuberosity
The orbital plate on each side form
Part of each orbit
Above the orbital plate is
Interior part of the floor of the brain case
Each orbital plate is separated from the other by
Ethmoidal notch
The frontal bone articulate with
Four cranial bone which are right and left parietal bones sphenoid bone ethmoid one
The frontal bone articulate with …. facial bone
8 facial bones
The lateral wall of the cranium and part of the roof are formed by
Two parietal bones
A roughly square shape bones and have a concave internal surface
Parietal bones
The widest portion of the entire skull is located between
The parietal tubercles
Parietal bone articulate with ….
Five cranial bones, frontal ,occipital ,temporal sphenoid and opposite parietal
The inferior posterior portion of this skull cap
Occipital bone
The external surface of the occipital bone present around part called
Squamous portion
Forms most of the back of the head and is the part of the occipital bone that is superior to the external occipital protuberance or inion
Squamous portion of occipital bone
Prominent bump or protuberance at the inferior posterior portion of the skull
Inion
The large opening at the base of the occipital bone through which the spinal cord passes as it leaves the brain is called
Foreman Magnum means great hole
Oval processes with convex surface
Occipital condyles
Two parts articulation between the skull and the cervical spine is called
Atlanto occipital joint
Occipital bone articulate with
6 bones 2 parietal 2temporal sphenoid and atlas
Depression within the first cervical vertebra
Atlas
Complex structure that houses with delicate organs of hearing and balance
Temporal bone
Situated between the greater wing of the sphenoid interiorly and the occipital bone posteriorly
Temporal bone
Extending interiorly from the squamous portion of the temporal bone is an arch of bone termed
Zygomatic process
The zygomatic arch is formed by
The zygomatic process of the temporal bone and the temporal process of the zygomatic bone
Inferior to the zygomatic process and interior to the external acoustic meatus
Temporomandibular fossa
Projecting inferior to the mandible and interior to the EAM is a cylinder Bony projection called
Styloid process
What are the three primary parts of the temporal bone?
The squamous portion
Petrous pyramid
Mastoid portion
Thin upper portion of the temporal bone that forms part of the wall of the skull
Squamous portion
Part of the skull quite thin and it is the most vulnerable portion of the entire skull to fracture
The squamous portion
Posterior to the EAM many air cells within it
Mastoid portion
Pars petrosa
Petrous pyramids
Houses, the organs of hearing and equability
Petrous pyramid
Why do we call the Petrus pyramid the petromastoid portion?
Because it include the mastoid air cell
The upper border or red of the petrous pyramid
Petrous ridge or petrous apex
The thickest and the densest born in cranium
Petrous pyramids
These portion of the temporal bone correspond to the level of TEA
Petrous ridge
Near the centre of Petrus pyramid on the posterior surface just superior to the jugular foreman is an opening or orifice called
Internal acoustic metres
Transmitted and nerves of hearing and equilibrium
Internal acoustic metres
Where are the bilateral jugular foramina located?
At the base of the cranium and are where internal jugular vein are formed and three cranial nerve pass
Temporal bone articulate with
Three cranial bone parietal occipital sphenoid and each temporal bone articulate with two facial bones
Forms the anchor of the other seven cranial bones
Sphenoid bone
Forms the anchor of the other seven cranial bones
Sphenoid bone
The central portion of the sphenoid bone is
The body
Which part of the sphenoid bone contain this sphenoid sinuses?
The body
Central depression on the body of the sphenoid born is
Sella turcica
What does the sellea turcica protect?
Hypophysis cererbri /pituitary gland
A shallow depression that begins on the posterior inferior aspect of the dorsum sellae ?
Clivus
Slightly depressed area forms a base of support for pones which is a portion of the brainstem and for the basil artery
Clivus
Triangular and are nearly horizontal ending medially in the two interior clinoid process
Lesser wings
They project laterally from the superior interior portion of the body and extend to the middle of each orbit
Lesser wings
They extend laterally from the body of the sphenoid bone and form a portion of the floor of the cranium and a portion of the side of the cranium
Greater wings
Three pairs of small foramina exist in the greater wings for passage of certain cranial nerve
foreman rotundum and the foreman ovale and the foreman spinosum
Arising from the posterior aspect of the lesser wings are bony projections termed
Anterior clinoid process
What is between the interior body of the sphenoid bone and lesser wings on each side?
Groove like channels through which the optic nerves and certain arteries pass into the orbital cavity
What’s another name of optic groove?
Chiasmatic
What’s another name of optic groove?
Chiasmatic
List the groove like canals through which optic nerve and certain arteries pass into
1-chiasmatic
2-optic canal
3-optic foramina
Irregular shaped opening that are slightly lateral and posterior to the optic foramina
Superior orbital fissures
Openings that provide additional communication with orbits and numerous cranial nerves and blood vessels
Superior orbital fissures
A process in the sphenoid bone that sometimes referred to as plates
The petrygoid process
A small hooklike process that end inferiorly on the medial petrygoid process
Petrygoid hamuli
The petrygoid process forms part of the wall of the nasal cavity
True
What is often the only clue that illusion exist intracrainily
Deformity in sella turcica
Sella turcica and Dorsum sellae are demonstrated best on
Lateral view
Sella turcica and Dorsum sellae are demonstrated best on
Lateral view
This sphenoid born articulate with how much facial bone
5
That lies primarily below the floor of the cranium
Ethomid bone
Small upper horizontal portion of the ethmoid bone
Cribriform plate
Contain many small opening into which olfactory nerve pass
Cribriform plate
Roosters comb
Crista galli
Roosters comb
Crista galli
The major portion of ethmoid bone lies beneath the floor of the cranium
True
Help in formation of nasal septum
Perpendicular plate
Lateral masses of ethmoid born contain
Ethmoid air cells
Parts of the ethmoid bone that helps in the formation of medial wall of the orbits and lateral wall of nasal cavity
Lateral mass
Thin scroll shaped projection extending medially and downward from the medial wall of the labyrinth
Superior and medial conchae
The ethmoid bone articulate with
Two cranial bones, frontal and sphenoid and articulate with 11 facial bone
The ethmoid bone is located ………in relation to the sphenoid bone
Anterior
The articulations or joint of the cranium are called
Sutures
Sutures are classified as
Fibrous joint
What is the sub classification o fibrous joint?
Synarthrodial joint
Separates the frontal bone from the two parietal bone
Coronal suture
Separating two parietal bone
Sagittal suture
Separate two parietal bones from occipital bones
Lambdoidal suture
Inferior junction of the two parietal bones with temporal bones
Squamosal sutures
The interior end of the sagittal suture is termed
Bregma
The posterior end of the sagittal suture
Lambda
Points at the junction of the frontal parietal temporal and the greater wing of the sphenoid
Pterions
The pterions are at the posterior end of the sphenoid parietal suture
True
Points posterior to the ear where the squamosal and the lambdoidal sutures meet
Asterions
Ossification of the individual while cranial bone is incomplete at birth
True
Areas where the suture joins are slower in their ossification
Fontanels
When does the cranial sutures ossify ?
Mid to late 20 and in some people until the fifth decade
What do you call the soft spots that are membrane covered opening in infant?
Anterior and posterior fontanels
What fontanels is the largest at birth?
The anterior fontanels ,2.5cm wife and 4cm long
When does the interior Fontenel close completely?
18 monthes of age
When does the interior Fontenel close completely?
18 monthes of age
Two smaller Fontenel that close soon after birth
The sphenoid and mastoid Fontenel
Two smaller Fontenel that close soon after birth
The sphenoid and mastoid Fontenel
Small irregular bones that develop in an adult suture
Wormian
Where where is the most area that contain wormain?
Lambdoidal suture /posterior fontanels
Where does the external ear begin with?
Auricle or pinna
Small lip structure located interior to the EAM and act as a partial shield to the ear opening
Tragus
Small lip structure located interior to the EAM and act as a partial shield to the ear opening
Tragus
Opening or Canel to the external ear
EAM
Opening or Canel to the external ear
EAM
Measuring 2 .5 cm long half is bony and half is cartilaginous
EAM
The eardrum is situated in an oblique angle forming a depression
True
Irregular shaped air containing cavity between the external and the internal portion of ear
Middle ear
The three main parts of the middle ear
The tympanic membrane the small auditory ossicles
Tympanic cavity
The Tympanic cavity is divided into two parts
The Tympanic cavity proper and the epitympanic recess or attic
The tympanic membrane is attached to sharp bone production called
Drum crest
The drum crest separate the EAM from epitympanic recess
True
The tympanic cavity communicate interiorly with
Eustachian tube or auditory tube
Passageway between the middle ear and the nasopharynx
Eustachian tube
tube that is about 4 cm long and serve to equalise the pressure within the middle ear to the outside atmosphere
Eustachian tube
A direct passage from the throat to the middle ear
Eustachian tube
Appear in modified posterior interior projection 5 to 10 caudal angles
Internal acoustic meatus
What are the two imaging modalities that we use to demonstrate internal acoustic disease
?
CT for bone regions and MRI for acoustic neuroma
Second direct communication into the middle ear
Mastoid air cells
Opening between the. Epitympanic recess and the mastoid portion of the temporal.
Aditus
Aditus Connect directly to a large jumper within the mastoid portion termed the
Antrum
The antrum connect to various mastoid air cells
True
The antrum connect to various mastoid air cells
True
Serious infection in the brain
Encephalitis
Thin plate that forms route of the Antrum aditus and attic area of the tympanic cavity
Tegmen tympani
Small bones that are prominent structure within the middle ear
Auditory ossicles
Three auditory ossicles are located partially in the attic and partially in the tympanic cavity proper
True
Explain the route of auditory ossicles
First, the vibrations are going to be picked by the malleus meaning hammer which is attached directly to the inside surface of the tympanic membrane
Then goes to incus then to stapes
Looks like a premolar tooth
Incus
The smallest part of the auditory ossicles
Stapes
Which part of ear contain both hearing and aquarium sensory apparatus ?
Internal ear
Internal ear is divided into two parts
are the osseous or bony labyrinth and membrane once labyrinth
Bony Champer the houses the membrane Labyrinth
Osseous labyrinth
A series of intercommunicating duct and sacs
Membrane labyrinth
Give an example of membranous labyrinth duct
Endolymphatic duct