Skull

Question 1

What is orthopedics?

Answer 1

The prevention and correction of disorders of the musculoskeletal system

Question 2

What is the axial skeleton made up of

Answer 2

Skull, hyoid, ribs, vertebrae sternum, auditory ossicles

80 BONES

Question 3

What are the parts of the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 3

Upper and lower extremities and the limb girdles

126 BONES

Question 4

What are the cranial bones? And how many are there?

Answer 4

Frontal (1)
Parietal (2)
Occipital (1)
Temporal (2)
Sphenoid (1)
Ethmoid (1)

8 cranial bones

Question 5

What are the facial (visceral) bones? And how many are there?

Answer 5

Maxilla (2)
Palatine (2)
Zygomatic (2)
Lacrimal (2)
Nasal (2)
Vomer(1)
Inferior nasal concha (2)
Mandible (1)

Total of 14 visceral or facial bones

Question 6

What are the 4 paranasal sinuses?

Answer 6

Frontal sinus
Ethmoidal sinus
Maxillary sinus
Sphenoid sinus

Question 7

What large bone forms the forehead region, roof of the orbit and anterior part of the cranial cavity?

Answer 7

Frontal bone

Question 8

What two large bones form the greater part of the superior and lateral part of the skull?

Answer 8

Parietal bones

Question 9

What lies at the middles part of the base of the skull, a keystone of the cranial flor because it articulates with all the other cranial bones?

Answer 9

Sphenoid bone

Question 10

What light sponge -like bone located on the midline in the anterior part of the cranial floor?

Answer 10

Ethmoid bone

Question 11

These bones form the skeleton of the bridge of the nose, the major structure portion of the nose consists of flexible cartilage. What are these bones?

Answer 11

Nasal bones

Question 12

What are the cheek bones that lie inferior and lateral to the eye sockets?

Answer 12

Zygomatic Bones

Question 13

What bones make up the upper jaw bone and holds the upper teeth?

Answer 13

Maxilla

Question 14

What is the lower jaw bone which holds the lower teeth?

Answer 14

Mandible

Question 15

What is about the size of a fingernail and are the smallest of the facial bones? They form part of the medial wall of each orbit

Answer 15

Lacrimal

Question 16

What L shaped bone has a horizontal part that forms part of the bony palate and the vertical part forms part of the lateral wall a of the nasal cavity and extends to the floor of the orbits?

Answer 16

Palatine bones

Question 17

What bone is unpaired wedge shaped that forms the posterior inferior part of the nasal septum?

Answer 17

Vomer

Question 18

Where is the anterior fontanel formed?

Answer 18

The intersection of the metopic suture coronal suture and the sagittal suture

Question 19

What forms the upper part of the nasal cavity?

Answer 19

Perpendicular plate

Question 20

What are the intersections of the new born skull called and what are the 4?

Answer 20

Fontanels

Anterior
Posterior
Sphenoidal
Mastoid

Question 21

How many sutures does a new born skull have and what are their names?

Answer 21

Coronal, sagittal, squasmosal, lambdoidal, Metopic

Question 22

What intersection is formed when the coronal and sagittal suture meet?

Answer 22

Bregma

Question 23

What is the intersection called where the lambdoidal suture and the parietal suture meet?

Answer 23

Lambda

Question 24

How many bones are in the skull?

Answer 24

22 bones

Question 25

The bones of the skull are classified into two categories of ______ and _______

Answer 25

Cranial bones and facial bones

Question 26

What bones make up the orbit?

Answer 26

Frontal, lacrimal, ethmoid, zygomatic, maxillary, sphenoid, palatine

Question 27

What are the two unpaired facial bones?

Answer 27

Mandible and vomer

Question 28

What are the unpaired cranial bones?

Answer 28

Sphenoid, ethmoid, frontal and occipital