Skull

Question 1

What is the lower anterior part (facial skeleton) called?

Answer 1

Viscerocranium.

Question 2

Name the bones of the neurocranium.

Answer 2

Frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid.

Question 3

Name the 8 bones making up the viscerocranium.

Answer 3

Zygomatic, maxilla, mandible, nasal, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine, vomer.

Question 4

Name the suture between the frontal and parietal bones.

Answer 4

Coronal suture.

Question 5

Name the suture between the two parietal bones.

Answer 5

Sagittal suture.

Question 6

Name the suture between the parietal and occipital bones.

Answer 6

Lambdoid suture.

Question 7

Name the suture between the parietal bones and posterior of the temporal bone.

Answer 7

Parietomastoid suture.

Question 8

Name the join between the occipital and temporal bones.

Answer 8

Occipitomastoid suture.

Question 9

Name the join between the parietal and anterior temporal bone.

Answer 9

Temperoparietal suture.

Question 10

Name the H-shaped structure, superior to the zygomatic arch, which is at the joining of the frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid (greater wing) bones.

Answer 10

Pterion.

Question 11

Which bones is the temperimandibular joint between?

Answer 11

Temporal, and condylar process of mandible.

Question 12

What are the attachments of the temporalis muscle?

Answer 12

Temporal fossa, coronoid process.

Question 13

What are the attachments of the medial pterygoid muscle?

Answer 13

Medial surface of the lateral pterygoid plate (of sphenoid), pyramidal process of palatine, tuberosity of maxilla, medial surface of mandibular ramus.

Question 14

What are the attachments of the lateral pterygoid muscle?

Answer 14

Lateral surface of lateral pterygoid plate, infratemporal surface and crest of greater wing of sphenoid, medial surface of the mandibular condyle.

Question 15

Which bones form the orbital margins?

Answer 15

Frontal, maxilla, zygomatic.

Question 16

Which bones form the nasal bridge?

Answer 16

Frontal bone, frontal process of maxilla, nasal bones.

Question 17

Which muscle attaches to the mastoid process?

Answer 17

Sternocleidomastoid.

Question 18

What is the pointy bit and the back base of the skull called?

Answer 18

External occipital protuberance.

Question 19

What is the name of the membranous joints between the angles of flat bones of the calvaria in infant skulls?

Answer 19

Fontanelles.

Question 20

Name the four fontanelles of the infant calvaria.

Answer 20

Anterior (between frontal and parietal), posterior (between parietal and occipital), mastoid (behind mastoid process), sphenoidal (near where the pterion is on an adult).

Question 21

Which part is the neurocranium, and what is another name for it?

Answer 21

The domed part containing the brain - calvaria.

Question 22

What is the mnemonic for bones of the neurocranium?

Answer 22

STEP OFf my skull
Sphenoid
Temporal
Ethmoid
Parietal
Occipital
Frontal

Question 23

What is the mnemonic for bones of the viscerocranium?

Answer 23

Zoro Likes Punching My Very Nose In
Zygomatic
Lacrimal
Palatine
Maxilla
Vomer
Nasal
Inferior nasal concha

Question 24

What is the mnemonic for learning the cranial sutures?

Answer 24

Learn Cranial Sutures
Lambdoid
Coronal
Sagittal

Question 25

What is another name for the pituitary fossa, and which bone is it found in? What is the space just below?

Answer 25

Sella turcica, in the sphenoid bone, just above sphenoid sinus.