The Skull, Arthrology of Skull, Views of Skull

Question 1

Excluding the auditory aussicles how many bones form the skull?

Answer 1

22 bones

Question 2

How many bones form the neruocranium?

Answer 2

8 bones

Question 3

What bones form the neurocranium?

Answer 3

frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, sphenoid and ethmoid

Question 4

How many bones form the facial skeleton?

Answer 4

14 bones

Question 5

What bones form the facial skeleton?

Answer 5

mandible, vomer, nasal, maxila, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine and zygomatic

Question 6

What are the four subclassifications of synarthorsis joints based on Latin groupings?

Answer 6

suture, gomphosis, schindylesis and syndesmosis

Question 7

What were the five types of suture based on Latin groupings?

Answer 7

serrate, denticulate, limbous, squamous, and harmonia

Question 8

What are the charactetistics of sutura vera (true sutures)?

Answer 8

sutures demonstrating interlocking of the adjacent bone surfaces; typically formed by intramembranous ossification

Question 9

What are the characteristics of the sutura notha (false sutures)?

Answer 9

surtures lacking interlocking of adjacent bone surfaces; typicaly formed by endochondral ossification

Question 10

What were the classifications of suture vera (true sutures) based on Latin groupings?

Answer 10

serrate, denticulate and limbous

Question 11

What were the classifications of suture notha (false sutures) based on Latin groupings?

Answer 11

squamous and harmonia

Question 12

What are the typical examples of the plane suture or harmonia suture?

Answer 12

cruciate sutture made up of intermaxially, interpalatine and palato-maxillary sutures

Question 13

What are the examples of the schindylesis type of suture?

Answer 13

sphenoid-ehtmoid-vomer articulation, the palatine-maxilla-vomer articulation

Question 14

What are the examples of the gomphosis joint?

Answer 14

maxilla-root of tooth; madible-root of tooth

Question 15

What are the five views of the skull called?

Answer 15

norma verticalis, norma frontalis, norma occipitalis, norma lateralis, norma basalis

Question 16

What is the diamond shaped remnant of developing membrane bone at the intersection of the frontal bone with both parietal bones?

Answer 16

the anterior fontanelle

Question 17

What is the posterior fontanelle?

Answer 17

the diamond shaped remnant of developng membrane bone at the intersection of the occipital bone with both parietal bones

Question 18

What is the diamond shaped remnant of developing membrane bone at the intersection of the occipital bone with both parietal bones?

Answer 18

the posterior fontanelle

Question 19

What is the name given to the outline of the nasal cavity at the front of the skull?

Answer 19

piriform aperature

Question 20

What is the name given to the alveolar jugum of the canine tooth in the maxilla?

Answer 20

canine eminence

Question 21

What forms the bullet-like chin?

Answer 21

a large mental protuberance

Question 22

What forms an indented chin?

Answer 22

well developed bilateral mental tubercles and a slight mental protuberance

Question 23

What is the tip of the external occipital protuberance called?

Answer 23

the inion

Question 24

What bones form the pterion?

Answer 24

pareital, temporal, sphenoid, and frontal bones

Question 25

What points on the skull are used to measure the skull size?

Answer 25

the nasion, vertex, inion, and gnathion

Question 26

`What points on the skull are used to measure cranial vault capacity?

Answer 26

the nasion, vertex and inion