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The skeleton consists of

Bones, cartilage, joints, and ligaments

Joints also called

Articulations

Skeleton composed of how many bones?

206 bones

How many bones in axial skeleton?

80

How many bones in appendicular skeleton?

126

Division of skeleton that contains skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage?

Axial skeleton

Division of skeleton that contains upper and lower limbs?

Appendicular

Most complex bony structure?

The skull

Formed by cranial and facial bones?

Skull

These bones enclose the brain...

Cranium

Bones that provide attachment sites for some muscles of head and neck...

Cranium

Form framework of the face

Facial bones

Bones that form cavities for sense organs of sight, taste, and smell. Provides openings for passage of airand food, hold the teeth in place, anchor muscles of the face.

Facial bones

Sutures of the cranium

Lamboid


Coronal


Squamous

3 bony ridges that divide skull into distict fossae

Anterior


Middle


Posterior

Brain sits within the ________ fossae

Cranial

What smaller cavities does the skull contain?

Middle and inner ear cavities


Nasal cavity


Orbits


Air-filled sinuses

Houses the eyeballs

Orbits

Cavity that lies in skull and posterior to the nose

Nasal cavity

How many named openings in the skull?

85

Form superior and lateral parts of skull

Parietal bones

Four sutures of the cranium

Coronal


Squamous


Sagittal


Lamboid

Suture that runs in coronal plane, located where parietal bones meet frontal bone

Coronal suture

Suture that occurs where each parietal bkne meets a temporal bone inferiorly

Squamous sutue

Suture that occurs where right and left parietal bones meet superiorly

Sagittal suture

Suture that occurs where the parietal bones meet the occipital bone posteriorly

Lambdoid suture

Small bones that occur within sutures, irregular in shape, not all people have them

Sutural bones

Forms the forehead and roofs of orbits

Frontal bones

Superior margin of orbits

Supraorbital margin

Passage for supraorbital nerve and artery

Supraorbital foramen

Smooth part of frontal bone between superciliary arches

Glabella

Frontal sinuses are within

Frontal bone

Forms the posterior portion of the cranium and cranial base

Occipital bone

Articulates with the temporal bones of the parietal bones

Occipital bone

Forms the posterior cranial fossa, foramen magnum located at its base

Occipital bone

Features and structures of...


Occipital condolyles


Hypoglossal foramen


External occipital protuberance


Superior nuchal lines


Inferior nuchal lines

Occipital bones

Which bones does this describe?

Temporal bones

Site for neck muscle attachment


Contains air sinuses

Mastoid process

Projects medially, contributes to cranial base. Houses cavities of middle and internal ear.

Petrous part

Which bone contributes to the middle and posterior cranial fossae?

Temporal bone

Keystone bone for cranium

Sphenoid bones

Spans width of the cranial floor, resembles a bat with its wings spread, consists of a body and 3 pairs of processes. Contains 5 important openings.

Sphenoid bone

Important landmarks of the sphenoid bone

Body


Greater wings


Lesser wings


Pterygoid processes

Important openings of the sphenoid bone

Optic canal


Superior orbital fissures


Foramen rotundum


Foramen ovale


Foramen spinosum


Lies between nasal and spenoid bones, forms most of tge medial bony region between the nasal cavity and orbits

Ethmoid bone

Superior surface of the ethmoid bone, contains cribriform foramina

Cribriform plate

Within ethmoid bone, attached for falx crebri.

Crista galli

Forms superior part of nasal septum

Perpendicular plate

Part of ethmoid bone, contains air cells.

Ethmoidal labyrinth

Part of ethmoid bone, extend medially from laterial masses?

Superior and middle nasal conchae

Unpaired bones of the face?

Mandible and vomer

6 Paired bones of the face

1. Inferior nasal conchae


2. Lacrimal bones


3. Maxillae


4. Nasal bones


5. Palatine bones


6. Zygomatic bones

Lower jawbone is the largest and strongest facial bone

Mandible

Only moveable bone of the skull, composed of horizontal body and 2 upright rami.

Mandible

Landmarks that mark this bone are mandibular fossa, mandibular foramen, alveolar process, mental foramen, condylar process, ramus

Mandible

Bones that articulate with all other facial bones except the mandible

Maxillary bones

Forms paet of the inferior orbital fissure

Maxillary bones

Bones of the face that form lateral wall of orbits

Zygomatic bones

Bones that form bridge of nose

Nasal bones

Facial bones that are located in the medial orbital walls

Lacrimal bones

Facial bones that complete the posterior part of the hard palate

Palatine bones

Facial bones that form the inferior part of the nasal septum

Vomer

Thin curved facial bones that project medially form the lateral walls of the nasal cavity

Inferior nasal conchae

Air filled sinuses are located within which bones?

Frontal


Ethmoid


Sphenoid


Maxillary

Paranasal sinuses are lined with

Mucous membrane

Bone that lies inferior to the mandible, the only bone with no direct articulation with any other bone, acts as moveable base for tongue.

Hyoid bone

Formed from 26 bones, transmits weight of trunk to the lower limbs, surrounds and protects the spinal cord

The vertebral column

Serves as attachment sites for muscles of the neck and back, held in place by ligaments

The vertebral column