Skull (see pg 96 for pictures)

Question 1

Frontal Bone

Answer 1

forms the forehead, the anterior of the skull’s roof, and the roof of the eye orbit (socket)

Question 2

Parietal bones

Answer 2

form most of the top and the side walls of the cranium

Question 3

coronal suture

Answer 3

fibrous connective tissue joint that separates the frontal and parietal bones of the skull

Question 4

sagittal suture

Answer 4

fibrous connective tissue joint between the two parietal bones of the skull

Question 5

Temporal Bone

Answer 5

bone that forms part of the sides and some of the base of the skull

Question 6

Mastoid process

Answer 6

part of the temporal bone that projects downward immediately behind the external part of the ear

Question 7

Squamosal Suture

Answer 7

arches backward from the pterion and connects the temporal squama with the lower border of the parietal bone

Question 8

Styloid Process

Answer 8

serving as points of attachment for muscles, the slender, pointed process (protrusion) of : temporal bone of the skull

Question 9

External Auditory Meatus

Answer 9

ear canal; a tube running from the middle ear to the outer ear

Question 10

Occipital Bone

Answer 10

forms the skulls posterior and part of its base

Question 11

Lambdoidal suture

Answer 11

joins the occipital bone with the parietal bones in the posterior cranium

Question 12

Suture

Answer 12

a type of flat, immovable joint that unites the skull bones

Question 13

External Occipital Protuberance

Answer 13

a prominence about the center of the outer surface of the squamous portion of the occipital bone, giving attachment to the ligamentum nuchae.

Question 14

Occipital condyles

Answer 14

each of two rounded knobs on the occipital bone that form a joint with the first cervical vertebra

Question 15

Occipital

Answer 15

pertaining to, or situated near the occiput or the occipital bone (the posterior lobe)

Question 16

Foramen Magnum

Answer 16

the hole in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes.

Question 17

Sphenoid Bone

Answer 17

a compound bone that forms the base of the cranium, behind the eye and below the front part of the brain. It has two pairs of broad lateral “wings” and a number of other projections, and contains two air-filled sinuses.

Question 18

Maxilla

Answer 18

the upper jaw or jawbone, also forms part of the nose and eye socket.

Question 19

Zygomatic Bone

Answer 19

the bone that forms the prominent part of the cheek and the outer side of the eye socket

Question 20

Zygomatic Arch

Answer 20

The bony arch that extends along the side or front of the skull beneath the eye socket

Question 21

Mandible

Answer 21

the lower jaw or jawbone

Question 22

Coronoid Process

Answer 22

a flattened triangular projection above the angle of the jaw where the temporalis muscle is attached

Question 23

Condyloid Process

Answer 23

the rounded process by which the ramus of the mandible articulates with the temporal bone

Question 24

Ramus

Answer 24

a broad quadrilateral part of the mandible projecting upward from the posterior end of the body behind the lower teeth.