Skull and Mandible Flashcards
Total number of bones (cranial, facial, ear bones, hyoid)
8 cranial bones
14 facial bones
6 ear bones (3 on either side)
1 hyoid bone
The skull is __% of total body weight.
8%
Layer of spongy bone that separates the internal and external tables of compact bone
Diploe
Provides flexibility to the skull
Sharpey’s Fibers
Joint of the mandible
Temporomandibular
Number of bones neurocranium and viscerocranium
8, 15
Bones derived from visceral arches
Splanchnocranium
Endochondral mode of formation
Chondrocranium, splanchnocranium
Dermal mode of formation
Dermatocranium
Germ layer origin of chondocranium
Mesoderm
Germ layer origin of dermatocranium and splanchnocranium
Neural crest
Flat bones of the skull
Dermatocranium
Base of the skull or brain case
Chondrocranium
Age that the anterior fontanelle closes
18 months
Age that posterior fontanelle closes
2 to 3 months
[T/F] Turbinates allow you to stick your finger into your nose easily.
F
Lowest point from the chin
Gnathion
Most prominent of the mental prominence
Mental or symphisian point
Point of intersection of the fronto-nasal suture with the median line
Nasion
Corresponds to the median area which is situated within the supercillary arches
Glabella
Corresponds to the vertex or the highest point of the skull
Bregma
Point which unite the sagittal suture with the lambdoid suture
Lambda
Most posterior point of the sagittal plane of the skull
Opistocranion
Point which corresponds to the external occipital protuberance
Inion