Test 1 Flashcards
Sella turcica
Saddle shaped depression of sphenoid bone where pituitary gland sits
What bone has the optic canal?
Lesser wing of sphenoid
Sphenoid
Middle part of base of skull
Floor of middle cranial fossa
What part of the maxilary bone articulates with the zygomatic bone?
Zygomatic process
Cribriform plate of ethmoid
Lies within ethmoidal notch of ethmoid and forms roof of nasal cavity
Skull cap
Frontal, temporal, parietal, temporal
Greater wing of sphenoid articulations
frontal, parietal, temporal
Foramen spinosum
in sphenoid bone
Transverse palatine suture
Btwn maxilla and palatine bones
Median palatine suture
Separates palatine process of maxilla and transverse process of palatine
Squamous suture
Temporal and parietal
Ethmoid
Anterior portion of cranial base, medial wall of orbit, superior portion of nasal septum, lateral walls of nasal cavity
Articulations of body of sphenoid
Vomer and ethmoid, occipital bone
Articulations of lesser wing of sphenoid
Orbital plates of frontal, ethmoid, palatine
Articulation of pterygoid process
palatine bones