Oral Anatomy Skull Bone Parts

Front 1

What are the four sections of the superior skull?

Back 1

Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, and Temporal

Front 2

What are the sutures of the skull?

Back 2

Coronal, Sagittal, Lambdoid, Squamous

Front 3

What bones of the skull are connected by the coronal suture?

Back 3

Frontal and Parietal

Front 4

What bones of the skull are connected by the sagittal suture?

Back 4

Parietal Bone

Front 5

What bones of the skull are connected by the lamboidal suture?

Back 5

Occipital and Parietal

Front 6

What bones of the skull are connected by the squamous sutures?

Back 6

Temporal and Parietal Bones

Front 7

What is the term for close approximation of the frontal, parietal, temporal, and greater wing of the spehnoid?

Back 7

pterion or temporal fossa

Front 8

Name the foramen just inferior to the orbit?

Back 8

Infraorbital Foramen

Front 9

Name the large opening that the nose covers?

Back 9

piriform aperture

Front 10

Name the structures that pass through the optic canal?

Back 10

Optic nerve and opthalmic artery

Front 11

What structures pass though the superior orbital fissure?

Back 11

Cranial Nerves III, IV, V1, VI, and opthalamic vein

Front 12

Name the strucutre that passes through the foramen ovale?

Back 12

Mandibular Nerve

Front 13

Name the strucutre that passes through foramen rotundum

Back 13

Maxillary Nerve

Front 14

Name the strucutre that passes through hypoglossal canal?

Back 14

Hypoglossal Nerve

Front 15

Name the strucutre that passes through foramen magnum?

Back 15

Spinal Cord

Front 16

Name the strucutre that passes through stylomastoid foramen?

Back 16

facial Nerve

Front 17

Name the strucutre that passes through jugular foramen?

Back 17

internal jugular

Front 18

Name the strucutre that passes through cartoid canal?

Back 18

Internal Carotid Artery

Front 19

What are the 8 Neurocranium bones?

Back 19

Frontal, Parietal (2), Occipital, temporal (2), Sphenoid, ethmoid

Front 20

What is the function of the Neurocranium Bones?

Back 20

Support and protect the brain

Front 21

What are the 14 Viserocranium Bones?

Back 21

Mandible;vomer, Maxillae (2), Lacrimal (2), Zygomatic (2), Nasal (2), Palatine (2), Inferior Nasal Conchae (2)

Front 22

What is the purpose of the Viserocranium bones?

Back 22

esthetics, repiration, and digestion

Front 23

What passes through the foramen ovale?

Back 23

V3

Front 24

What is the skull's largest foramen?

Back 24

foramen magnum

Front 25

What bone does the spinal cord pass through?

Back 25

Occipital Bone

Front 26

what passes through the incisive foramen?

Back 26

Insisive Palatine

Front 27

The inferior most extention of the palate?

Back 27

Hamulus

Front 28

What is the Temporozygomatic Suture?

Back 28

The cranial suture between the zygomatic bone and the temporal bone.

Front 29

What is the Median Palatine Suture?

Back 29

Palate midline between palatine bones

Front 30

Where is the Transverse Palatine?

Back 30

cross section between median palatine suture and intermaxillary suture

Front 31

What is the intermaxillary suture?

Back 31

The midline of the hard palate

Front 32

What is the most fractured facial bone?

Back 32

nasal

Front 33

What is the 2nd most fractured facial bones?

Back 33

Zygomatic

Front 34

What is the 3rd most fractured facial bones?

Back 34

Mandible

Front 35

Soft tissues of the face are most generally associated with what?

Back 35

More than 1 bone

Front 36

The eye orbit is comprised of what 7 bones?

Back 36

Frontal bone, ethmoid bone, lacrimal bone, zygomatic bone, maxilla, spehnoid and palatine bones

Front 37

The Frontal bone makes up what wall in the orbital socket?

Back 37

Superior Wall

Front 38

The ethmoid and lacrimal bones make up what walls of the orbital socket?

Back 38

Medial Wall

Front 39

The zygomatic and sphenoid bones make up which walls of the orbital socket?

Back 39

lateral Wall

Front 40

The maxilla makes up which wall of the orbital socket?

Back 40

Inferior Wall (Floor)

Front 41

The sphenoid and palatine bones make up which portion of the orbital socket?

Back 41

The base at the apex of the orbit

Front 42

What cranial nerves make up the superior orbital fissure?

Back 42

III, IV, V1, VI

Front 43

What vein is in the superior orbital fissure?

Back 43

superior opthalmic vein

Front 44

Where is the superior orbital fissure located?

Back 44

between the greater and lesser wings of the sphenoid

Front 45

The inferior orbital fissure is located where?

Back 45

between the greater and lesser wings of the spenoid, inferior to the superior orbital fissure

Front 46

What nerves go through the inferior orbital fissure?

Back 46

branches of V2

Front 47

Which artery and vein run through the inferior orbital fissure?

Back 47

infraorbital artery and inferior opthalmic vein

Front 48

What cranial nerve runs through the optic canal?

Back 48

Cranial Nerve II (vision)

Front 49

What is the piriform aperture bounded by?

Back 49

nasal bones (superior) and Maxillae (lateral and inferior wall)

Front 50

What is the nasal septum composed of?

Back 50

Ethmoid-anterior/superior
Vomer-Posterior/inferior
Cartilage-nasal septum

Front 51

What is the temporal fossa?

Back 51

slight depression, larger than the pterion.
The space on the side of the cranium bounded by the temporal lines and terminating below at the level of the zygomatic arch.

Front 52

What is the external occipital protuberance?

Back 52

the occipital surface of the occipital bone, above the foramen magnum

Front 53

What is the zygoma?

Back 53

forms prominence of cheek, lateral wall of the orbit, joined to the temporal bone by temporalzygomatic suture

Front 54

What is the hard palate formed by?

Back 54

2 palatine processes of maxilla and 2 horitontal plates on the palatine bones

Front 55

What 4 surfaces make up the palate?

Back 55

Median Palate, Transverse Palatine, Intermaxillary suture, and palatine bones

Front 56

What are the Hard Palate foramina?

Back 56

Incisive, greater palatine, and lesser palatine

Front 57

Where is the incisive palatine locates and what does it transmit?

Back 57

-Midline of anterior palate (pre-maxilla)
-nasopalatine nerve

Front 58

Where is the greater palatine located and what does it transmit?

Back 58

-posterior and lateral of the palate
-greater palatine nerve

Front 59

Where is the lesser palatine located?

Back 59

posterior to the greater palatine foramen

Front 60

What is the pterygoid process and where is it located?

Back 60

A long process of the sphenoid bone extending downward from the junction of its body and great wing

Front 61

What is the pterygoid processes function?

Back 61

muscle attachment

Front 62

What is the pterygoid Fossa?

Back 62

The pterygoid fossa is an anatomical term for the fossa formed by the divergence of the lateral pterygoid plate and the medial pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone.

Front 63

Hamulus is?

Back 63

Most inferior extension of the medial pterygoid plate

Front 64

What are the medial and lateral pterygoid plates?

Back 64

fossa between plates

Front 65

What is the mandibular fossa?

Back 65

large depression, aka glenoid process