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What are the 2 parts of the skull?

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Neurocranium
Viscerocranium

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What is the neurocranium?

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forms a protective case around the brain

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What is the visceromembrane?

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Forms the skeleton of the face

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What are the 2 parts of the neurocranium?

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  1. Membranous neurocranium
  2. Cartilaginous neurocranium
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What is the membranous neurocranium?

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roof and sides of the skull develops from neural crest cells.

They undergo membranous ossification to from flat bones.

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Do the membranous neurocranium bones fuse?

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No
Allow distortion to pass through the birth canal

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How many Fontanelles are there?

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6

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What process allows the cartilaginous neurocranium to fuse and ossify?

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By endochondral ossification

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What part of the skull do the cartilaginous neurocranium form?

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Form the base of the skull

Cranial base

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What is the prechondral chondocranium?

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In front of the pituitary gland, delivered from neural crest cells

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Where is the Chondral chonrocranium found?

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Posterior to pituitary and arise from paradisal mesoderm

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What is another name for the cartilaginous neurocranium?

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Chondrocranium

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Where is the cranial base found?

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Underlies the brain

Basilar and lateral occipital, Sphenoid, Ethmoid, Petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bones)

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Name structures, blue, light blue and yellow

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What is the vicerocranium mainly formed of?

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First 2pharyngeal arches

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How many pharyngeal arches are there?

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5

1-6

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How do the pharyngeal arches form?

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Development in a craniocaudal sequence

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When do the first pair of pharyngeal arches form?

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Day 22

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Whe do the 2nd an d3rd pairs of pharyngeal appear?

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Day 24

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What day do the 4th and 6th pairs of pharyngeal arches form?

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Day 29

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What is cephalogenesis?

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The formation of the head in the developing embryo

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What does the early chrondates have?

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Notch cord for support
Simple nervous system
Segmented muscle blocks
Branching clefts

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What cartilages support the notochord in the head region?

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Occipital and parachondral

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Does the chrondate have a jaw?

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No

Called agnathia

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What is the role of the cartilaginous capsule?
To protect sense organs
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What modifies to form the jaw?
First arch cartilage
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What element becomes the upper jaw?
Palatopterygo quadrants bar
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What element becomes the lower jaw?
Meckles cartilage
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What forms the TMJ?
Fibrous connection between the upper and lower jaw
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How do the additional bony element to protect the skull develop?
This is from the neuroectoderm, from which neural crest cell migrate and differentiate into ectomesenchyme
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Name sections A-C of the newborn skull
A - neural crest B -sclerotome C - cranial paradisal mesenchyme
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What genes play. A role in craniofacial development?
Hox genes
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What do the pharyngeal arches rely on for proper development?
Hox genes
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What signalling pathways regulate the cal arias growth and cranial suture morphogenesis?
Shh BMPs TGF FGFRsMSX1
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Where is the anterior fontanelle found and when does it fuse?
Between the frontal parietal bones 2years
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Where is the posterior fontanelle found and when does it fuse?
Between parietal and occipital bones 2-3 years
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What are the 4 fontanellles?
Anterior Posterior Sphenoid Mastoid
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What is the suture in between the frontal bones?
Metopic suture
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What processes are a scent I a new born?
Mastoid and styled processes
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What facial nerve may be injured during a foreclosure delivery?
Facial nerve
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What is postnatal growth of the skull concerned with?
Development of the vicerocranium
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When does the facial skeleton increase usually?
Childhood and puberty
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What does the spheno-occipital synchondrosis allow?
Allows anterior posterior growth of the skull closes around the age of 20
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What occurs/forms during the embryonic period?
Pharyngeal arches Facial development Ossification centres
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What occurs during the fetal period?
Continued ossification
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What happens during the post-natal period?
Closure of fontanelle Growth of facial bones Growth of skull vault Expansion of sinuses Fusion of sutures Eruption of teeth
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Name the cranial sutures
Metopic/frontal suture Sagitta suture Coronal suture Lambdoid suture Squamosal suture
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Name the 8 facial sutures
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What is vault growth directly related to?
Brain development
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What can problems in brain development effect?
Growth of skull and skull
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Compare the growth of the vault size and skull as a whole?
Skull as a whole grows most rapidly from birth to 7th year but vault size increases most during the first year
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When does the brain complete its maximum size?
2 years
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What is craniosynostosis?
a disorder that involves premature fusion of the cranial vault sutures causing abnormal and disproportionate growth of the cranial bones during development
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Describe cephalon disorders
are a group of abnormalities that relate to a wide range of skeletal (skull) and neural (brain) associated defects.
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Name neural associated disorders
•Anencephaly, Hydrocephalus, Encephalocele, Colpocephaly (occipital horn enlargement), Lissencephaly (smooth brain), Porencephaly (cyst or cavity in cerebral hemisphere), Acephaly (absence of head), Exencephaly (brain outside skull), Macrocephaly (large head), Micrencephaly (small brain),
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Does craniosynostosis occur only in isolation?
No, can show as part of several syndromes
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What sutures are associated with non-syndromes craniosynostosis?
Sagittal suture - Scaphocephaly ◦Unicoronal suture - Plagiocephaly ◦Metopic suture - Trigonocephaly ◦Bicoronal sutures - Brachycephaly or Turricephaly or both
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How would you identify non-syndromal craniosynostosis?
Classified morphology by the suture involved and subsequent skull shape
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What are the side effects of craniosynostosis?
Increased intracranial pressure and development delay is rare Usually need surgery to correct
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What skull shape is common in syndromal craniosynostosis?
Turribrachycephalic skull shape is common
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How is craniosynostosis inherited?
All are inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion, except Carpenter syndrome, which is recessive.
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What type of craniosynostosis is more common to have developmental delay?
Non-syndromal
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What type of craniosynostosis is shown here?
Scaphocephaly
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What type of craniosynostosis is shown?
Plagiocephaly
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What type of craniosynostosis is shown?
Trigonocephaly

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