What are the bones of the cranium? (6)
What are the five portions of the temporal bone?
What is under the tympanic portions of the temporal bones?
external auditory canal
What is under the petrous portions of the temporal bones?
inner ear
What is the temporal line of the parietal bones?
Where the temporalis muscles attach
What is the metopic suture of the frontal bone?
Where the nose connects to the frontal bone
Which bone contains the foramen magnum?
occipital
What comes through the foramen magnum?
The spinal column
What is directly underneath the condyles on the occipital bone?
the atlas
What are the sutures of the cranium? (4)
What are the parts of the mandible?
What are the bones of the anterior face?
What is craniosynotosis?
birth defect in which one or more of the joints between the bones of the skull closes prematurely, before the brain is fully formed.
(holes are called fontanel)
What are the movements made by the mandible?
What are the elevator muscles of the mandible? (3)
What are the depressor muscles of the mandible? (4)
Which mandible elevator is used for quick movements?
temporalis
What are the portions of the maxillae? (4)
What are the bones of the interior face? (4)
Which bones are the dividing lines for the cranial case and nasal pasages?
ethmoid and sphenoid
which part of the ethmoid bone is also a part of the nasal septum?
perpendicular plate
what are the cribriform plates?
part of ethmoid; separate nasal and cranial space
the nasal conchae are part of which bone?
ethmoid bone
what are the orbital plates of the ethmoid?
form medial orbit