Skull Flashcards
Suture between frontal and parietal bones
Coronal
How many cranial bones are there?
Facial?
8
14
Suture between the two parietal bones
Sagittal
Suture between Temporal and parietal bones
Squamosal
Suture between occipital and parietal bones
Lambdoidal
Superior part of the skull
Calvaria
Which bone has the frontonasal suture?
The frontal bone
Which bone makes up the roof of the orbit?
Frontal bone
Situated between the orbits behind the nasal bones
Ethmoid bone
What is the cribriform plate part of?
Ethmoid bone
Which bone is the crista galli part of?
Ethmoid bone
Which bone is the perpendicular plate part of?
Ethmoid bone
Contain the ethmoidal sinuses
Labyrinths
Sides and roof of cranium
Parietal bones
Resembles a bat
Sphenoid bone
Contains the pituitary gland
Sella turcica
Bounds the pituitary gland posteriorly and bears the posterior clinoid process
Dorsum sellae
Flat portion of the occipital bone
Squama
What do the two occipital condyle’s articulate with?
The Atlas
This portion of the occipital bone fuses with the body of the sphenoid
Basilar portion
What exits out of the foramen magnum?
Medulla oblongata
Another name for external occipital protuberance
Inion
What are all of the Temporal bones?
Squamous portion Tympanic portion Styloid process Zygomatic process Mastoid portion Petrous portion Mandibular fossa