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The skeleton consists of |
Bones, cartilage, joints, and ligaments |
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Joints also called |
Articulations |
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Skeleton composed of how many bones? |
206 bones |
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How many bones in axial skeleton? |
80 |
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How many bones in appendicular skeleton? |
126 |
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Division of skeleton that contains skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage? |
Axial skeleton |
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Division of skeleton that contains upper and lower limbs? |
Appendicular |
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Most complex bony structure? |
The skull |
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Formed by cranial and facial bones? |
Skull |
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These bones enclose the brain... |
Cranium |
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Bones that provide attachment sites for some muscles of head and neck... |
Cranium |
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Form framework of the face |
Facial bones |
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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 |
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Sutures of the cranium |
Lamboid Coronal Squamous |
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3 bony ridges that divide skull into distict fossae |
Anterior Middle Posterior |
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Brain sits within the ________ fossae |
Cranial |
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What smaller cavities does the skull contain? |
Middle and inner ear cavities Nasal cavity Orbits Air-filled sinuses |
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Houses the eyeballs |
Orbits |
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Cavity that lies in skull and posterior to the nose |
Nasal cavity |
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How many named openings in the skull? |
85 |
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Form superior and lateral parts of skull |
Parietal bones |
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Four sutures of the cranium |
Coronal Squamous Sagittal Lamboid |
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Suture that runs in coronal plane, located where parietal bones meet frontal bone |
Coronal suture |
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Suture that occurs where each parietal bkne meets a temporal bone inferiorly |
Squamous sutue |
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Suture that occurs where right and left parietal bones meet superiorly |
Sagittal suture |
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Suture that occurs where the parietal bones meet the occipital bone posteriorly |
Lambdoid suture |
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Small bones that occur within sutures, irregular in shape, not all people have them |
Sutural bones |
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Forms the forehead and roofs of orbits |
Frontal bones |
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Superior margin of orbits |
Supraorbital margin |
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Passage for supraorbital nerve and artery |
Supraorbital foramen |
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Smooth part of frontal bone between superciliary arches |
Glabella |
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Frontal sinuses are within |
Frontal bone |
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Forms the posterior portion of the cranium and cranial base |
Occipital bone |
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Articulates with the temporal bones of the parietal bones |
Occipital bone |
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Forms the posterior cranial fossa, foramen magnum located at its base |
Occipital bone |
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Features and structures of... Occipital condolyles Hypoglossal foramen External occipital protuberance Superior nuchal lines Inferior nuchal lines |
Occipital bones |
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Which bones does this describe? |
Temporal bones |
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Site for neck muscle attachment Contains air sinuses |
Mastoid process |
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Projects medially, contributes to cranial base. Houses cavities of middle and internal ear. |
Petrous part |
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Which bone contributes to the middle and posterior cranial fossae? |
Temporal bone |
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Keystone bone for cranium |
Sphenoid bones |
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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 |
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Important landmarks of the sphenoid bone |
Body Greater wings Lesser wings Pterygoid processes |
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Important openings of the sphenoid bone |
Optic canal Superior orbital fissures Foramen rotundum Foramen ovale Foramen spinosum |
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Lies between nasal and spenoid bones, forms most of tge medial bony region between the nasal cavity and orbits |
Ethmoid bone |
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Superior surface of the ethmoid bone, contains cribriform foramina |
Cribriform plate |
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Within ethmoid bone, attached for falx crebri. |
Crista galli |
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Forms superior part of nasal septum |
Perpendicular plate |
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Part of ethmoid bone, contains air cells. |
Ethmoidal labyrinth |
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Part of ethmoid bone, extend medially from laterial masses? |
Superior and middle nasal conchae |
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Unpaired bones of the face? |
Mandible and vomer |
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6 Paired bones of the face |
1. Inferior nasal conchae 2. Lacrimal bones 3. Maxillae 4. Nasal bones 5. Palatine bones 6. Zygomatic bones |
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Lower jawbone is the largest and strongest facial bone |
Mandible |
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Only moveable bone of the skull, composed of horizontal body and 2 upright rami. |
Mandible |
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Landmarks that mark this bone are mandibular fossa, mandibular foramen, alveolar process, mental foramen, condylar process, ramus |
Mandible |
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Bones that articulate with all other facial bones except the mandible |
Maxillary bones |
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Forms paet of the inferior orbital fissure |
Maxillary bones |
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Bones of the face that form lateral wall of orbits |
Zygomatic bones |
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Bones that form bridge of nose |
Nasal bones |
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Facial bones that are located in the medial orbital walls |
Lacrimal bones |
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Facial bones that complete the posterior part of the hard palate |
Palatine bones |
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Facial bones that form the inferior part of the nasal septum |
Vomer |
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Thin curved facial bones that project medially form the lateral walls of the nasal cavity |
Inferior nasal conchae |
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Air filled sinuses are located within which bones? |
Frontal Ethmoid Sphenoid Maxillary |
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Paranasal sinuses are lined with |
Mucous membrane |
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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 |
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Formed from 26 bones, transmits weight of trunk to the lower limbs, surrounds and protects the spinal cord |
The vertebral column |
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Serves as attachment sites for muscles of the neck and back, held in place by ligaments |
The vertebral column |