The Cranium Flashcards
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Frontol
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Forms the roof of the cranial cavity or cranial portion if the skull. In some species, the horn, or cornual process, arises from frontol.
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Cranium
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Portion the skull that encloses the brain.
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Parietal
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Paired bones that form the roof if the caudal cranial cavity.
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Occipital
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Forms the caudal aspect of the cranial cavity where the foramen magnum is located.
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Temporal
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Paired bones that form the sides and base of the cranium.
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Sphenoid
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Paired bones that firm part if the base of the skull and parts of the floor and sides of the bony eye sockets.
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Ethmoid
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Forms the rostral part of the cranial cavity.
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Incisive
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Forms the rostral part of the hard palate and lower edge of nares.
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Pterygoid
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Forms the lateral wall of the nasopharynx.
