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The area above the nose between the eyes is part of the forehead is called the
________.
Glabellla
One feature of the frontal bone is very obvious is the little hole on either side above the eye socket is called the _______ _______.
Supraorbital foramen
Some people don't have the nice distinct hole from the supraorbital foramen. They have a little notch on the bone instead. This allows the ______ _______ to come out of the skull and to go across the forehead.
Superorbital nerves
The _____ ______ is in the Aqua color
Frontal Bone
If you look at the anterior view of the skull you can see part of the 2 ____ _____?
Parietal Bones
If you look through the eye sockets you can see portions of the _____? The ____ has several parts one part is called the ____ _____, another part is called the ___ ___?
Sphenoid, sphenoid
Lesser wing, greater wing
There are a number of important features with regard to the sphenoid. The 1st is that there is a round hole in the lesser wing called the ______ _______ or _____ _____?
Optic foramen or optic canal
Another important feature with regard to the sphenoid is that there are 2 slits which are _____ _____ and _____ ______?
superior orbital fissure, inferior orbital fissure
The _____ ______ ______ seperates the lesser wing from greater wing.
Superior orbital fissure
The reason the ______orbital fissure is important is that the ____nerves that control the movements of the _____ pass through there.
superior, three, eye
There are 3 nerves that come out from the brain and go to each eye and control the movement of the eyes ___, _____, ______ ___ ____ and they leave the brain and enter the boney ______ through the superior _______ fissures
Up, Down, side to side,

Orbit,

Orbital
There are two ____ _____, right and left.
Parietal bones
The right parietal bone extends all the way from the joint where it comes into contact with the ______ bone where the joint comes in contact with _______ bone.
frontal, occipital
Joints in the skull are known as _____
Sutures
Joint in the skull between the frontal bone and parietal is the _____ ______?(Think back when you studied the planes. The one that cut the head this way is the frontal/coronal plane so this is the ____?)
Coronal Suture
The second suture is the ____ ______. It is formed by a fibrous joint between the temporal and parietal bones on each side of the skull.
Squamous suture
The bone underneath the scalp is the ____ bone.
occipital
The 3rd suture you need to know is the ____ _____. It is the suture that runs at an angel. It seperates the _____ bone from the parietal and _____ bone.
lambdoid (LAMB DOID) suture,

occipital,

temporal
Another important feature of the temporal bone is a little piece that sticks down like a pen or stylus. It is called the ____ _____.
Styloid process
The _____ process is important because it serves as a site of attachment for some muscles.
Styloid
One feature of the temporal bone is the _______ process.
Zygomatic
The curve of the zygomatic process is called the ___ ____.
Zygomatic arch
The zygomatic arch is actually made up of two different bones. One piece comes from the _____ bone and the other part of the arch is made up of one of the facial bones called the ______ bone. (AKA high cheek bones)
Temporal, zygomatic
The temporal bone contributes the zygomatic process and the zygomatic bone contributes to the _____ _____.
Temporal process
The ___ ____ is important because it houses the pituitary gland.
Sella turcica
The ____ ____ is where the brain stem meets the spinal cord.
Foramen magnum
The plate with holes in it is the ________ plate.
Cribriform
The little holes in the cribriform plate are called _____ ______.
Olefactory foramina
What does olefaction mean?
Sense of smell
Inside the nose you have what's called olfactory _____. The mucosal _____ that lines the upper part of that _____ cavity contains _______ nerves.
Mucosa, membrane, olfactory, olfactory
The _____ _____ manaufactures a number of important hormones. Often times it is called the master gland of the body.
Pituitary gland
The ____ _____ of the temporal bone has little air cells and are small.
Mastoid process
The main or large air cells are known as ______ or _________ sinus.
Sinuses, paranasal
The superior and the middle nasal conca are parts of the ______ bone. The _______ nasal conca is not a part of the ethmoid bone. It is its own seperate _____ bone.
Ethmoid, inferior, facial
______ stands for rock.
Petrous
The ____ ____ goes through the temporal bone.
Ear canal
_____ ____ is the opening that allows the spinal cord to come up and go inside the skull where it joins with the brain stem.
Foramen magnum
What are the 4 sutures you need to know?
Coronal
Sagittal
Lambdoid (LAMB DOID)
Squamous
The______ suture is the one that goes in the midsagittal line.
Sagittal
The soft spot/opening in a fetal skull are called _____.
Fontanelles
The _____ process which has those air cells could get infected and that would be mastoiditis.
Mastoid
The _____ looks like a bat, has the lesser and greater wing, the body bat
Sphenoid
The legs are made up of ______ plate. There is a _____ and a ______ on each side.
Pterygoid, lateral, medial
The ____ is oval in shape. The way to remember the order is to think ROS(S).
Ovale,

Rotundum
Ovale
Spinosum
The middle ____ ____ is important because the meningeals cover the brain and sometimes people can sustain trauma to the head.
meningeal artery
What is your lower jaw called?
Mandible
What is the small bone that forms part of the lower nasal septum?
Vomer
What bone forms part of the face?
Maxillary
The _____ bones suggest form part of the pallet, the roof of your mouth is the _____.
Palatine, pallet
The palatine bone and then the ______ also contributes to the pallette.
Maxilla
What does lacrimation mean?
To tear (so anything that has to do with teraing you think LACRIMATION)
example: lacrimal bones
There are two bones that make up the lacrimal bones. They have depressions and they are called lacrimal _____ that conects the tears. It helps to drain the tears in the _____ cavity.
Fossa, Nasal
The rest of the nasal septum, the middle section is actually made out of cartilage. What is the cartilage made out of?
Hyaline
Nasal and lacrimal are both ______ bones.
Facial
There are three sets of nasal concha. (SMI)
Each one is kind of a scrolled piece of bone.
Superior nasal concha
Middle nasal concha
Inferior nasal concha
The _____ and _____ nasal concha are parts of the _______ but the inferior nasal concha are not part of the _______.
Superior, middle
Ethmoid
Ethmoid
_______ ______ _____ are not part of the ethmoid. They are their own bones. Their own seperate little bones.
Inferior nasal concha
in 29:29 she said to notice that there is a little notch here. This piece that sticks back here is called the ______ ______.Notice that it articulates with what bone?
Mandibular condyle,
Temporal
The _______ joint is the joint between the mandibular condyle and the temporal bone.
Mandibular
The ____ ____ houses your spinal cord.
Vertebral column
The vertebral column is suppose to be straight when you look at it from the posterior view. If it curves to one side or to the other on the thoracic region or in the lumbar region that is what we call _____.
Scoliosis
There are 4 curvatures in the vertebral column which are?
They are normally present if you look at it from the side.
1. Cervical
2. Thoracic
3. Lumbar
4. Sacral
The cerivical portion of the vertebral has ____ vertebrae and there are ____ in the thoracic section
7,12
You have ____ pairs of ribs
12
The ______ consists of 5 vertebrae but they fuse together usually by the age of 25.
Sacrum
The _____ is your tailbone
coccyx
The coccyx is composed of ____ vertebrae that also fuse during childhood.
4
What if a person has a stroke and one side of the body is paralized the right or left. What do we call that?
hemiplegia
What seperates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal pelvic cavity and it is actually a muscle. It is responsible for breathing in
Diaphragm
It turns out that every cervical vertebrae all 7 of them has _____ holes.
3
The central hole is the vertebral foramen through which the _____ cord goes. Then there are 2 holes here called the _______ foramina
Spinal
Transverse
The transverse foramina transits something very important which is the ____ _____?
Vertebral artery