the skull Flashcards
front of your head
frontal bone
middle of the head
Parietal bone
side of head
temporal bone
back of the head
Occipital bone
back of eyes and where your temple is and in the middle of the brain
sphenoid bone
in between the parietal and temporal
squamous suture
back of nose corner of eye
ethmoid bone
little bone in eye or back of the mouth
palatine bone
cheek bone
zygomatic bone
very corner of the eye where tears are made
Lacrimal bone
middle of nose
perpendicular plate of ethmoid
outside of each nostril
inferior nasal concha
middle of eyebrows
Glabella
hole above eye
supraorbital foramen
in between frontal and parietal
coronal suture
slit in eye
superior orbital fissure
below the superior orbital fissure
optic foramen
bone in the middle of the eyes
nasal bone
hole in cheek
infraorbital foramen
bottom of middle of nose or v shape in head
vomer bone
upper jaw
maxilla
upper lip
Alveolar process of maxilla
lower jaw
mandible
lower lip
alveolar process of mandible
part of your jaw from your ear to chin
mandibular ramus
point/curve in the jaw
mandibular angle
line in the back of the head that splits it into right and left
sagittal suture
line between parietal and occipital
lambdoid suture
pump in the occipital bone
external occipital protuberance
bump right behind ear
mastoid process
fangs in the occipital bone
occipital condyle
ridge between fangs
foramen magnum
line between frontal and parietal
coronal suture
line between parietal and temporal
squamous suture
bone from cheek to ear
zygomatic process
line between parietal and occipital
lambdoid suture
ear hole
external acoustic meatus
pointy figure below ear and a slit in the under part of the head
styloid process
connect jaw to head by ear
mandibular condyle
u shape in jaw
mandibular notch
upper roof of mouth
hard palate
connects jaw to cheek
coronoid process
bone going from cheek to ear
zygomatic arch
ovale shaped hole in the sphenoid bone
Foramen ovale
tiny hole under the foramen ovale
foramen spinosum
holes medial to the foramen ovale
foramen lacerum
hole between your parietal and occipital
jugular foramen
plates around the foramen magnum
occipital condyle
around the teeth on the in side
palatine process
bone in the back part of your mouth
palatine bone
indent in the under part of the temporal bone
mandibular fossa
hole in the under part of the temporal bone
carotid canal
hole were spinal cord runs through
foramen magnum
sponge like bone in the inner skull
cribriform plate
line in the middle of the ethmoid bone in the inner skull
crista galli
upper wing in the sphenoid bone
lesser wing
lower wing in the sphenoid bone
greater wing
seat like spot
sella turcica
under the lesser wing
optic canal
under the greater wing
foramen rotundum
hole in the inner jaw
mandibular foramen
hole in chin
mental foramen