The Skull Flashcards
What is the part of the skull called that protects the brain and serves as attachment points for head and neck muscles?
Neurocranium
What is the part of the skull that anchors expressive muscles, frames the face and secures teeth?
Viscerocranium
What bone is most anterior of the neurocranium?
Frontal bone
What bone is between the frontal and occipital?
Parietal (2)
What bone is the most posterior of the neurocranium?
Occipital
What bones are sat laterally of the neurocranium?
Temporal (2)
What suture sits between the frontal and parietal bones?
Coronal suture
What suture is between the two parietal bones?
Sagittal suture
What bone in the neurocranium is shaped like a butterfly?
Sphenoid
What suture is between the two parietal bones and the occipital?
Lambdoid suture
What is the point called where the temporal, occipital and parietal bones meet?
Asterion
What is the point called where the occipital and two parietal bones meet?
Lambda
What is the point called where the sphenoid, temporal, parietal and frontal bones meet?
Pterion
What is the point called where the frontal and the two parietal bones meet?
Bregma
How many of the 22 bones in the skull are fibrous joints and how many are synovial?
21 fibrous, 1 synovial (temporomandibular)
What is the name of the cheek bone in the viscerocranium?
Zygomatic
What is the name of the bone that houses the upper teeth in the viscerocranium?
Maxilla
Which bone is the most posterior in the roof of the oral cavity of the viscerocranium?
Palatine
Which bone in the viscerocranium has the sac that produces tears?
Lacrimal