Test 2: Skull

Question 1

What word refers to the bones that cradle the brain?

Answer 1

Neurocranium

Question 2

What word refers to the bones of the face that house sensory organs?

Answer 2

Viscerocranium

Question 3

What are the two parts of the neurocranium?

Answer 3

Chondrocranium (the cartilaginous base of the skull)

Desmocranium (all the outside bones)

Question 4

How many ossification centers does the frontal bone have?

Answer 4

2

Question 5

How many features does the frontal bone have?

Can you name them?

Answer 5

8

Glabella

Temporal lines

Temporal fossa

Superciliary arches

Supraorbital margins

Frontal sinuses

Foramen cecum

Supraorbital foramen or notch

Question 6

What bone is the zygomatic arch mostly made up of?

Answer 6

Temporal bone

Partly zygomatic bone, mostly temporal bone

Question 7

Does the common carotid go through the foramen lacerum?

Answer 7

No, but you can see the common carotid through this foramen

Question 8

What bones are both viscerocranium and neurocranium?

Answer 8

Ethmoid bone, sphenoid bone, and temporal bone

Question 9

What are the distinct cavities of the skull?

Answer 9

Anterior cranial fossa

Middle cranial fossa

Posterior cranial fossa

Question 10

What does the glabella reside on?

Answer 10

The frontal bone

Question 11

On which bone will you find the temporal lines?

Answer 11

The frontal bone and parietal bones

Question 12

What bone houses the temporal fossa?

Answer 12

The frontal bone

Question 13

What bone houses the superciliary arches?

Answer 13

The frontal bone

Question 14

On which bone are the supraorbital margins found?

Answer 14

The frontal bone

Question 15

Where are the frontal sinuses found?

Answer 15

On the frontal bone

Question 16

On which bone will you find the foramen cecum?

Answer 16

The frontal bone

Question 17

Where do you find the supraorbital foramen/notch?

Answer 17

Frontal bone

Question 18

Where is the coronal suture found?

Answer 18

Running coronally and forming the border between the parietal bones and the frontal bone

Question 19

Where is the sagittal suture found?

Answer 19

On the midline of the skull running posteriorly from the coronal suture, separating the parietal bones

Question 20

What two bones do the squamous sutures separate?

Answer 20

Temporal and parietal bones

Question 21

What two bones do the lamboid sutures separate?

Answer 21

Occipital and parietal bones

Question 22

Where are the penetrant parietal foramina (PF) found?

Answer 22

On the parietal bones near the sagittal suture

Question 23

Where is the groove for the meningeal artery found?

Answer 23

Inner side of parietal bones

Question 24

What bone of the skull connects to the vertebral column?

Answer 24

Occipital bone

Question 25

Where do you find the external occipital protuberance?

Answer 25

Occipital bone

Question 26

On which bone is the foramen magnum found?

Answer 26

Occipital bone

Question 27

Where do you find the condylar canal?

Answer 27

Occipital bone

Question 28

Where do you find the hypoglossal canal

Answer 28

Occipital bone

Question 29

Where do you find the pharyngeal tubercle

Answer 29

Occipital bone

Question 30

Where do you find the occipital condyles? What do they articulate with?

Answer 30

Occipital bone (articulate with atlas)

Question 31

Where do you find the superior and inferior nuchal lines?

Answer 31

Occipital bone

Question 32

Where do you find the zygomatic process?

Answer 32

On the temporal bone

Question 33

Where do you find the external acoustic meatus?

Answer 33

Temporal bone

Question 34

Where do you find the mastoid process?

Answer 34

Temporal bone

Question 35

Where do you find the mastoid notch?

Answer 35

Temporal bone

Question 36

Where do you find the styloid process?

Answer 36

Temporal bone

Question 37

Where do you find the mandibular fossa?

Answer 37

Temporal bone

Question 38

Where do you find the petrotympanic fissure?

Answer 38

Temporal bone

Question 39

Where do you find the articular tubercle

Answer 39

Temporal bone

Question 40

The majority of the zygomatic arch is composed of what bone?

Answer 40

Temporal bone

Question 41

Where do you find the carotid canal

Answer 41

Temporal bone

Question 42

Where do you find the foramen lacerum>

Answer 42

Temporal bone

Question 43

Where do you find the internal acoustic meatus

Answer 43

Temporal bone

Question 44

Where do you find the ossea tubae auditivae

Answer 44

Temporal bone

Question 45

Where do you find the stylomastoid foramen

Answer 45

Temporal bone

Question 46

Where do you find the Croat galli

Answer 46

Ethmoid bone

Question 47

Where do you find ethmoid air cells

Answer 47

Ethmoid bone

Question 48

Where do you find the superior and middle concha and meatus?

Answer 48

Ethmoid bone

Question 49

Where do you find the perpendicular plate?

Answer 49

Ethmoid bone

Question 50

What bone makes up the medial wall of the orbit?

Answer 50

Ethmoid bone

Question 51

Where are the anterior and posterior ethmoidal foramen found?

Answer 51

Ethmoidal bone

Question 52

What are the four fontanelles?

Answer 52

Anterior, posterior, sphenoid, and mastoid fontanelles

Question 53

What are the four sinuses?

Answer 53

Ethmoid, sphenoid, frontal, maxillary

Question 54

What do the ethmoid air cells, frontal sinus, and maxillary sinus communicate through with the nasal cavity?

Answer 54

Hiatus semilunaris

Question 55

What are the tooth sockets known as?

Answer 55

Alveoli

Question 56

What bones are part of the neurocranium and the viscerocranium?

Answer 56

Sphenoid bone Ethmoid Bone Temporal Bone

Question 57

What are the bones of the Neurocranium?

Answer 57

Frontal Bone Occipital Bone Parietal Bone Sphenoid Bone* (excluding pterygoid process) Ethmoid Bone* (cribiform plate) Temporal Bone* (squamous/petrous)

Question 58

What are the bones of the viscerocranium?

Answer 58

``` Nasal Bone Lacrimal Bone Maxilla Zygomatic Bone Mandible Vomer Inferior Nasal Turbinate Palatine Bone Hyoid Bone ``` Sphenoid Bone* (pterygoid process) Ethmoid Bone* (excluding cribiform plate) Temporal Bone* (tympanic/styloid process)