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How many bones is the skull comprised of?
28 bones.
What is the mandible
The Jawbone
What is the parietal bone?
Actually two bones that make up the back left and right quadrants of the skull.
What is the occipital bone?
The bone that makes the bottom of the skull on the posterior end.
What is the temporal bone?
The two bones around the ears.
What is a suture?
An immovable joint between flat bones of the skull.
The palatine bones makes up what part of the skull?
The palatine bonES make up the back of the roof of the mouth?
What is the mastoid process?
It is the projection of bone on the temporal bone that many muscles attach to.
What is a process?
A projection of bone.
What do inferior and superior mean in anatomy?
They mean lower/higher to help us orient ourselves.
What is a lateral view?
It means “away from the middle” or “from the side”.
What is the frontal bone?
The frontal bone makes up the forehead.
What is the sphenoid bone?
They are the bones right behind your temples.
What are the two lacrimal bones?
It is something in the bridge of the nose.
What are the nasal bones?
They are the two bones that make up the bridge of your nose.
What are the zygomatic bones?
They are the bones that make up the “cheekbones”, and they also make the zygomatic arch which forms the bridge on outside of eyes.
What are the maxillae?
They are the bones that contain the upper section of teeth. There are two of these bones.
What is the ethmoid bone?
It is the bone between the eyes.
What is a meatus?
A passageway.
What is a foramen?
A hole.
What is the vomer?
The vomer forms the bony part of the nasal septum which divides the nasal cavity in two.
What is a sinus?
A hollowed space in a bone.