Final Flashcards

(12 cards)

1
Q

The cranial sutures of the temporal bones where they meet the parietal bones are?

A

Beveled, like the gills of a fish, indicating articular motility for a respiratory mechanism

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2
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How many cranium bones are there?

A

22; Does not include 6 ossicles of the ear

8 Cranium

14 Facial

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3
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What are the ventricles of the brain?

A

Complex spaces and tunnels through the center of the brain

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4
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What is the choroid plexus?

A

Contained in the ventricles and secretes cerebrospinal fluid

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5
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What structure is responsible for the production and circulation of CSF

A

choroid plexus

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6
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What does the Occipital bone articulate with?

A

Parietal bones superiorly at the lambdoid suture

Laterally with the mastoid portions of the temporal bones

Sphenoid anteriorly

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7
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The three regions, Squamous, orbital, and nasal articulate with how many cranial bones?

A

12 bones

Sphenoid

Ethmoid

Two parietals

Two Nasal

Two maxillae

Two lacrimals

Two zygomatic

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8
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What is the SBS (Sphenobasila Synchondrosis)

A

A fulcrum Base of the Sphenoid and the base of the occiput

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9
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What does the temporal bone articulate with

A

Parietal bone

Occiput

Sphenoid:Articulation extends out to the external surface at the pterion

Zygoma

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10
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What is the Arachnoid?

What is superficial and what is deeper

A

It is interposed between the two other meninges

the more superficial and much thicker dura mater and the deeper pia mater

from which it is separated by the subarachnoid space. The delicate arachnoid layer is attached to the inside of the dura and surrounds the brain and spinal cord.

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11
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what does the Faux cerebrum do

A

Separates the two hemisphers

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12
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What are arachniod granulations?

A

projections of the arachnoid membrane (villi) into the dural sinuses that allow CSF entrance from the subarachnoid space into the venous system.

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