Cranium

Front 1

the only moveable bone of the skull other than the ear ossicles

Back 1

mandible

Front 2

cranial vault or brain box, provides case for brain, crainal meninges, crainal nerves, and associated sturctures

Back 2

neurocrainum

Front 3

viscerocrainum or splanchnocranium, anterior part of the skull containing the orbits

Back 3

this is the facial skeleton

Front 4

the domelike roof of the crainum

Back 4

calvaria (skull cap)

Front 5

basicranium

Back 5

(AKA cranial base) is the floor of the cranium

Front 6

cranial and facial bones together protect and support what

Back 6

the special sense organs

Front 7

by what age is the frontal suture gone

Back 7

by 6- it is not closed but metopic suture that might be interpreted as a fracture in radiograph or other images

Front 8

a black eye results from accumulation of fluid and blood in the upper eyelid following a blow to where

Back 8

sharp supraorbital margin

Front 9

what CN passes through the stylomastoid foramen

Back 9

CN VII

Front 10

what passes through the mandibular fossa

Back 10

TMJ

Front 11

What does the petrous portion hold

Back 11

CN VIII

Front 12

The carotid foramen holds what

Back 12

carotid artery

Front 13

called the keystone bone because it articulates with all other cranial bones

Back 13

sphenoid bone

Front 14

this is the attachment sites for jaw muscles

Back 14

pterygoid processes

Front 15

this forms the anterolateral floor of the cranium and lateral part of the skull

Back 15

greater wing of the sphenoid

Front 16

the optic foramen transmits what

Back 16

the optic nerve CN II

Front 17

the maxillary branch of the trigeminal CN V2) passes through what

Back 17

foramen rotundum

Front 18

what does the foramen ovale transmit

Back 18

the mandibular nerve (CN V3)

Front 19

what is the anterior ridge of the sella turcial called

Back 19

tuberculum sellae

Front 20

what is the central depression of the sella turcial called

Back 20

hypophyseal fossa

Front 21

What is the posterior ridge of the sella turcial called

Back 21

dorsum sellae

Front 22

crista galli does what

Back 22

attaches to the membranes tha cover the brain

Front 23

olfactory foramina has the what passing through it?

Back 23

olfactory nerves pass (CN I)

Front 24

What is the function of the superior and middle nasal conchae (AKA turbinates)

Back 24

superior conchae participate in sense of smell, increase vascular surface: warms air and causes inhaled air to swirl and impact mucus: filters air

Front 25

What is a clef palate

Back 25

the lack of union of maxillary bones

Front 26

What passes through the mandibular foramen

Back 26

the inferior alveolar nerve (also artery and vein)

Front 27

what nerve does anesthesia use for local anesthetic techniue

Back 27

inferior alveolar nerve

Front 28

the inferior alveolar nerve is a branch of

Back 28

the mandibular nerve

Front 29

the mandibular nerve is the 3rd branch of what

Back 29

trigeminal nerve

Front 30

the back part of the palatine is what

Back 30

part of the hard palate

Front 31

the other end of the palatine is part of

Back 31

orbit

Front 32

what passes through the magnum foramen

Back 32

the medulla oblongata and its membranes (meninges), cranial nerve XI (accessory) and vertebrial and spinal arteries

Front 33

What passes through the mandibular foramen

Back 33

inferior alveolar nerve and blood vessels

Front 34

mental foramen has what

Back 34

the mental nerve and vessels

Front 35

the coronal suture unites what

Back 35

the frontal and both parietal bones

Front 36

the squamous sutures unites what

Back 36

parietal and temporal bones

Front 37

anterior, posterior, anterolaterals and posterolateral

Back 37

these are the major fonanels

Front 38

dense connective tissue membrane filled spaces between the cranial bone of fetuses and infants

Back 38

fontanels

Front 39

name the paranal sinuses

Back 39

frontal, ethmoidal, sphenoidal, maxillary sinus