Skull lecture 3&4 Flashcards
What bones is the skull made up of?
8 cranial bones
6 auditory ossicles
14 facial bones
Name the cranial bones
Occipital Parietal (2) Frontal Temporal (2) Ethmoid Sphenoid
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Name the auditory ossicles
Malleus (2)
Incus (2)
Stapes (2)
Name the facial bones
Zygomatic (2) Lacrimal (2) Palatine (2) Maxilla (2) Vomer Nasal (2) Inferior nasal concha (2) Mandible
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Skull sutures
The major skull sutures connect cranial bones
- coronal suture (frontal and parietal)
- Sagittal suture cleft and right parietal)
- squamous suture (parietal and temporal)
- Iamdoid suture (occipital and parietal)
Occipital cranial bone
- Prevents first at birth
- Forms most of posterior and base of skull
- Articulates with parietal and temporal bones , via lambdoid and occipitomastoid sutures
4 parts of occipital cranial bone
- Squamous part
- condylar parts (2)
- basilar part
When do the 4 parts of the occipital cranial bones fuse?
6 years old
Parietal cranial bones
- Paired, forming superior and lateral aspects of skull
- Articulates with frontal, temporal and occipital and opposite panetal bones
Frontal cranial bone
- Until birth, exists as paired bones divided by metopic suture
Articulates with paired parietal bones via coronal suture
-Forms root of orbit
Ethmoid cranial bone
- Forms deepest part of skull
- Complex shape, with paired cribriform plates lateral to perpendicular plate
Temporal cranial bone
- Zygomatic process of temporal bone joins with zygomatic bone to form zygomatic arch, or cheekbone
Sphenoid cranial bone
- Butterfly shaped
- Articulates with all other cranial bones
Zygomatic facial bone
-Front part of cheekbones
- forms zygomatic arch with zygomatic process of
temporal bone
Lacrimal facial bone
- forms medial wall of orbit
- contains lacrimal fossa, allowing Passage of lacrimal sac , part of the passageway allowing tears to drain from eye surface to nasal cavity
Palatine facial bone
Horizontal process of palatine forms posterior part of hard palate
Extending superiorly to this, the vertical plate lies between the sphenoid and posterior part of maxilla
Maxilla face bone
- fused medially to form upper jaw
- articulates with all facial bones except mandible
- Forms anterior part of hard palate
- carries upper teeth
- forms most of floor of orbit
Vomer facial bone
-Lies in nasal cavity and forms posterior and inferior part of nasal septum
Inferior nasal conchae facial bone
Form part of lateral walls of nasal cavity
Mandible facial bone
Formed of body and ramus, meeting at mandibular angle
- mandibular condyle articulates with temporal bone
Malleus ear ossicle
Hammer
- Evolved from articular
- formed jaw articulation water quadrate in lineage leading to mammals
Incus ear ossicle
Anvil
- evolved from quadrate
- Formed jaw articulation with articular in lineage leading to mammals
Stapes ear ossicle
Stirrup
- known as columella in non-mammalian vertebrates
Hyoid
- Difficult to assign to skull or rest of axial skeleton
- suspended from styled processes of temporal bone by stylohyoid ligament