The Skull

Question 1

Cranium

Answer 1

Encloses and protects the brain. Surface provides attachments for muscles that makes chewing and head movements possible.

Question 2

Sinus

Answer 2

Air filled cavities in the cranial bones

Question 3

Frontal bone

Answer 3

Forms the anterior portion of the skull above the eyes.

Question 4

Parietal Bones

Answer 4

One parietal bone is located on each side of the skull just behind the frontal bone.

Question 5

Occipital bone

Answer 5

Joins the parietal bones along the lambdoidal.

Question 6

Temporal Bones

Answer 6

Each side of the skull joins the parietal bone along a squamosal.

Question 7

Sphenoid bone

Answer 7

Wedge between several other bones in the anterior portion of the cranium.

Question 8

Ethmoid bone

Answer 8

Located in front of the sphenoid bone

Question 9

Facial skeleton

Answer 9

Consists of 13 immovable bones and a movable lower jawbone.

Question 10

Maxillae

Answer 10

Form the upper jaw. Portion of these bones comprise and the anterior roof of the mouth.

Question 11

Palatine bone

Answer 11

The L-shaped palatine bones are located behind the maxillae.

Question 12

Zygomatic bone

Answer 12

Form the prominence of the cheeks below and to the side of the eyes.

Question 13

Lacrimal bone

Answer 13

It is thin, scale like structure located in the medial wall of each orbit between the ethmoid bone and the maxilla

Question 14

Nasal

Answer 14

Long, thing, and nearly rectangular. They lie on the side by side and are fused at the midline where they form the bridge of the nose

Question 15

Vomer

Answer 15

Located along the midline within the nasal cavity.

Question 16

Inferior nasal conchae

Answer 16

Are fragile, scroll-shaped bones attached to the lateral walls of the naval cavity

Question 17

Fontanels

Answer 17

Membranous areas of incomplete intramembranous ossification

Question 18

Mandible

Answer 18

A horizontal horseshoe-shaped body with a flat portion projecting upward at each end.