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18 Cards in this Set
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Frontal Bone |
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Parietal Bone |
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Occipital Bone |
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Axial Skeleton |
The axial skeleton is the part of the skeleton that consists of the bones of the head and trunk of a vertebrate. In the human skeleton, it consists of 80 bones and is composed of six parts; the skull bones, the ossicles of the middle ear, the hyoid bone, the rib cage, sternum and the vertebral column. |
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Foramen Magnum |
the hole in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes. |
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Occipital Condyles |
each of two rounded knobs on the occipital bone that form a joint with the first cervical vertebra. |
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External Occipital Protuberance |
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Temporal Bones |
either of a pair of bones that form part of the side of the skull on each side and enclose the middle and inner ear. |
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External Acoustic Meatus |
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Mandibular Fossa |
the depression in the temporal bone that articulates with the mandible |
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Styloid Process |
a slender pointed part of temporal bone. |
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Mastoid Process |
prominence of the temporal bone behind the ear, to which neck muscles are attached |
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Zygomatic Process |
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Sutures |
a seamlike immovable junction between two bones, such as those of the skull |
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Coronal Suture |
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Sagittal Suture |
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Lambdoid Suture |
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Squamosal Suture |
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