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40 Cards in this Set
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What is one specific type of prominence located on the bony surface? |
Condyle |
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What is a condyle? |
relatively large convex prominence |
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What is typically an attachment area for muscle and tendons |
Tuberosities |
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an arch is shaped like a bridge with a what outline |
Bow like |
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what is shaped like an arch and has a bow like outline? |
An Arch |
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which prominences serve as muscle and ligament attachments? (4) |
Tubercles Crest Lines Spines |
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what is a tubercle or eminence? |
rounded elevation on the bony surface |
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BONY DEPRESSIONS |
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what are the different kinds of bony depression? (4) |
Incisure Notch Sulcus fossa |
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what is a sulcus? |
shallow depression or a groove that usually marks the course of an atery or nerve |
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What is generally deeper depression? |
Fossa |
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What can Fossas be? (3) |
portions of joints attachment areas for muscles or have functions |
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BONY OPENINGS |
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What is a foramen? |
short window like opening in the bone |
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What is a meatus? |
Type of canal |
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what is a small opening, especially into a hollow organ or canal |
Ostium |
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Sutures are the most flexible on who? |
Infants |
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The skull of a patient has how many bones? |
22 |
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the skull of the patient has 22 bones not including what? |
small bones of the middle ear |
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Growth takes place where? |
in all the bones of the skull |
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Growth of the upper face occurs where? |
sutures between the maxillary bones |
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Growth of the lower face occurs where? |
bony surfaces of the mandible and at the head of the condyle |
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all skull bones are immovable except which one? |
The mandible |
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The articulation of many of the bones in the skill is by what? |
Sutures |
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What four cranial bones are visible? |
Frontal bone paired Parietal bone Occipital bone |
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Which cranial bone is paired? |
Parietal bone |
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What three sutures among the four skull bones can be seen on the superior view? |
Coronal suture Sagittal suture Lambdoial suture |
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ANTERIOR VIEW |
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When the skull is viewed from the front what single bones of the skull can you see? (5) |
frontal ethmoid Vomer Spenoid mandible
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When the skill is viewed from the front what paired bones of the skull can you see? (5) |
Lacrimal Nasal Inferior nasal concha zygomatic maxillary bones |
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What bones are not visible on the front (anterior) view of the skull? |
Palatine bones |
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Which bones are not strictly considered facial bones? |
Palatine bones |
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ORBIT AND ASSOCIATED STRUCTURE? |
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The round opening in the orbital apex is called what? |
Optic canal |
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What two orbital fissures are noted on the anterior view of the Orbit? |
Superior orbital fissure Inferior Orbital Fissure |
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Bones of the skull that form the orbit |
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What forms the roof or superior wall of the orbit? |
Frontal Bones |
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What forms the medial wall of the orbit? |
Ethmoid and lacrimal bones
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What forms the lateral wall of the orbit? |
Zygomatic and sphenoid |
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What forms the apex or base of the orbit? |
Palatine bones and Spenoid |
