Skull, face and scalp Flashcards
What bones form the neurocranium?
- Frontal
- Temporal (2)
- Parietal (2)
- Occipital
- Ethmoid
- Sphenoid
What bones form the vescerocranium?
- Nasal (2)
- Maxilla (2)
- Zygomatic (2)
- Lacrimal (2)
- Inferior nasal conchae (2)
- Palatine (2)
- Vomer
- Mandible
What are the four sutures of the skull and where are they?
- Coronal: between frontal and parietal bones
- Sagittal: between 2 parietal bones
- Squamosal: between parietal and temporal
- Lambdoidal: between parietal/temporal and occipital
Which intersection of sutures is the most vulnerable?
Pterion: 4 bone intersection (frontal, temporal, parietal, sphenoid)
What are the boundaries of the orbit?
Roof: frontal bone Lat wall: zygomatic bone Floor/med wall: maxilla Med wall: lacrimal and ethmoid Posterior: sphenoid
What lobes of the brain are found in the middle cranial fossa?
Temporal lobes
What is the major function of the paranasal sinuses?
Make the head lighter
What lines the paranasal sinuses?
Mucousal membranes
Name the four sets of paranasal sinuses?
- Frontal sinuses
- Ethmoid air cells
- Sphenoid sinuses
- maxillary sinuses
What is transmitted through the cribriform plate?
Olfactory nerve (CN I)
What is transmitted through the optic canal?
- Optic nerve (CN II)
2. Opthalmic artery
What goes through the superior orbital fissure?
- CN III
- CN IV
- CN VI
- Opthalmic nerve (V1)
What goes through the foramen rotundum?
Maxillary nerve (V2)
What goes through foramen ovale?
Mandibular nerve (V3)
What goes through foramen spinosum?
Middle meningeal artery
What goes across foramen lacerum?
Internal carotid artery (enters cranial vault)
What goes through the jugular foramen?
- CN IX
- CN X
- CN XI
- Internal jugular vein
What goes through the internal acoustic foramen?
- CN VII
2. CN VIII
What goes through the stylomastoid foramen?
CN VII
What goes through the hypoglossal canal?
CN XII
What goes through the foramen magnum?
- Vertebral arteries
2. Spinal cord
What goes through the carotid canal?
Internal carotid artery (enters the skull here)
What are the five layers of the scalp?
- Skin
- Connective tissue: cutaneous nerves and vasculature
- Aponeurosis: strong tendinous sheet; attachment for muscles
- Loose connective: sponge-like with negative space; allows movement
- Pericraneum: periostium of bone
What layer has the vessels and nerves for the scalp?
Connective tissue