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What are the 8 cranial bones?

A
  • frontal
  • ethmoid
  • sphenoid
  • occipital
  • 2 temporal
  • 2 parietal
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What are the 15 facial bones?

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  • mandible
  • ethmoid
  • vomer
  • 2 maxilla
  • 2 inferior nasal conchae
  • 2 zygomatic
  • 2 palatine
  • 2 nasal
  • 2 lacrimal
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What part of the nasal conchae is independent?

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inferior nasal conchae

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What does the dura mater attach to?

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crista galli of the ethmoid bone

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Where does CN 1 enter the skull?

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cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone

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Where does CN 2 enter the skull?

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prechiasmatic sulcus of sphenoid bone

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What cranial nerves enter through the superior orbital fissure?

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CN 3 (oculomotor), CN 4 (trochlear), CN 5 (V1, Opthalmic), and CN 6 (abducens)

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Where does CN 5 (V2) enter the skull?

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foramen rotundum

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Where does CN 5 (V3) enter the skull

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foramen ovale

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What goes through the foramen spinosum?

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middle meningeal artery

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What is the inion?

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external occipital protuberance

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What enters the skull through the foramen magnum?

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spinal cord/brain stem, CN 11, and right and left vertebral arteries

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What bones form the jugular foramen?

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occipital and temporal

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What leaves through the jugular foramen?

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jugular vein, CN 9 (glossopharyngeal), CN 10 (vagus), and CN 11 (spinal accessory)

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Where does CN 11 enter and leave the skull?

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enters through the foramen magnum and leaves through the jugular foramen

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How does blood drain from the skull?

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through transverse sinus on the lateral side of the occipital bone, then to saggital sinus, then to the jugular vein

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17
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Where is the hypoglossal canal located?

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side of the foramen magnum

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18
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What CN leaves through the hypoglossal canal?

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CN 12 (hypoglossal) - goes to the tongue

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What are the 2 regions of the temporal bone?

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squamous (external) and petrous (internal)

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What is the thickest and strongest region of the skull?

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petrous region of the temporal bone

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What does the petrous region of the temporal bone contain?

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auditory (hearing) and vestibular (balance)

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What enters the skull in the carotid canal?

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the carotid artery and sympathetic nerves (plexus)

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What CN enter through internal acoustic foramen?

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CN 7 (facial) and CN 8 (vestibulocochlear)

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What is the articulation that forms the TMJ?

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head of mandible with mandibular fossa of temporal bone

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What muscle attaches to the coronoid process of the mandible?
temporalis
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What muscle attaches to the external surface of the mandibular angle?
masseter
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What muscle attaches to the internal surface of the mandibular angle?
medial pterygoid
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What is the vomer?
inferior part of the nasal septum
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What is the piriform aperture?
bony opening to the nasal cavity
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What bones form the piriform aperture? (4)
2 nasal and 2 maxilla
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What forms the roof of the nasal cavity?
ethmoid bone; more specifically the cribriform plate
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What forms the lateral wall of the nasal cavity? (3)
superior and middle conchae of ethmoid bone, palatine perpendicular plate, and inferior nasal conchae
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What forms the floor of the nasal cavity? (2)
maxilla and horizontal palatine bones
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What forms the medial wall or nasal septum of the nasal cavity? (3)
superior is ethmoid perpendicular plate, inferior is vomer, and septal cartilage
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What forms the orbital cavity? (7)
- frontal - sphenoid - maxilla - zygomatic - palatine - ethmoid - lacrimal
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What forms the anterior cranial fossa? (3)
frontal, ethmoid, and sphenoid
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What forms the middle cranial fossa? (2)
sphenoid and temporal
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What forms the posterior cranial fossa? (3)
occipital, sphenoid, and temporal
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What forms the zygomatic arch? (2)
zygomatic process of the temporal bone and temporal process of zygomatic bone
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What does the hard palate do?
lets you breathe and chew at the same time
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What forms the hard palate? (2)
palatine process of maxilla and palatine bones
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What are the 4 sinuses?
- frontal sinus - ethmoid sinus - maxillary sinus - sphenoid sinus
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What does the coronal suture separate?
frontal and parietal
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What does the sagittal suture separate?
right and left parietal
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What does the lambdoid suture separate?
occipital from parietal
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What does the occipitomastoid suture separate?
occipital from temporal
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What does the squamous suture separate?
temporal from parietal
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What is the lambda?
intersection of lambdoid and sagittal sutures
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What is the bregma?
intersection of sagittal and coronal sutures
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What is the pterion?
H shaped intersection of coronal, squamous, and sphenoid bone
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What is the vertex?
most superior point of calvaria on sagittal suture
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What is the asterion?
junction of lambdoid, occipitomastoid, and squamous
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What ligament prevents posterior dislocation of TMJ during protraction?
lateral ligament of TMJ
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What ligaments prevent downward dislocation of TMJ during protraction?
stylomandibular and sphenomandibular ligament
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What muscle depress the mandible to open the mouth?
lateral pterygoid
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What muscles elevate and retract mandible?
temporalis, masseter, and medial pterygoid
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What is the palpebral?
eyelid part of orbicularis oculi
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What do the extrinsic muscles of the tongue do?
move the tongue
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What do the intrinsic muscles of the tongue do?
change the shape of the tongue
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What provides sensory fibers to the cornea of the eye?
V1
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What provides somatosensory to tongue?
V3

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