Unit 2, Concept Skull

Front 1

Coronal suture joined by the cranial bones

Back 1

Frontal bone and parietal bones

Front 2

Lambdoid suture joined by cranial bones

Back 2

Parietal bones and occipital bone

Front 3

Sagittal suture joined by cranial bones

Back 3

Right and left parietal bones

Front 4

squamous suture joined which by cranial bones ?

Back 4

Temporal bone and parietal bone

Front 5

Fontanelle

Back 5

membranous interval at the margins of cranial bones in fetal skull

Front 6

Functions of neurocranium?

Back 6

1. Protects the brain,

2. houses of the organs of hearing and balance,

3. site of attachment for head and neck muscles

Front 7

calvarium

Back 7

Domelike roof of neurocranium

Front 8

what is the inferior of the perpendicular plate?

Back 8

The vomer bone

Front 9

Functions of Neurocranium (Cranial Vault)

Back 9

1. –Protects the brain

2. –Houses the organs of hearing and balance

3. –Site of attachment for head andneck muscles

Consists of:•4 singular bones (Frontal, Ethmoid,Sphenoid, & Occipital)

2 sets of paired bones (Temporal& Parietal)

Front 10

What is a calvarium?

Back 10

Domelike roof of the neurocranium

Front 11

Back 11

1. Frontal bone

2. Temporal bone

3. Parietal bone (left)

4. Parietal bone (right)

5. Occipital bone

Front 12

Back 12

2.Parietal bone

3. Sphenoid bone

4. Temporal bone

5. Ethmoid bone (perpendicular plate)

Front 13

Back 13

1. Occipital bone

Front 14

Suture

Back 14

immovable joints forming boundaries between cranial bones.

Front 15

Back 15

1. Coronal suture

2. Sagittal suture

3. Lambdoid suture

Front 16

Back 16

1. Squamous suture

Front 17

Back 17

1. Lambdoid suture

Front 18

Fontanelle

Back 18

Membranous interval at the margins of cranial bones in fetal skull

Front 19

Back 19

1. Anterior fontanelle

2. Posterior fontanelle

Front 20

Back 20

1. Sphenoid fontanelle

Front 21

Back 21

1. Nasal bone

2. Zygomatic bone

3.Maxilla bone

4.Mandible

5.Lacrimal bone

Front 22

Back 22

1. Vomer

2. Perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone

Front 23

Back 23

1. Medial pterygoid plate

2. Lateral pterygoid plate

3. Styloid process

4. Stylomastoid foramen

5. Mastoid process

Front 24

Back 24

1. Palatine bone
2. Palatine process (of maxilla)
3.Mandibular fossa
4.Vomer
5.Occipital Condyle
6.Carotid canal

Front 25

Supraorbital notch/foramen

Back 25

Branch of Cranial Nerve V1 (Supraorbital Nerve)

Front 26

Infraorbital foramen

Back 26

Branch of Cranial V2 (infraorbital nerve)

Front 27

sUPERIOR ORBITAL FISSURE

Back 27

Cranial nerve III, IV, V1 (infraorbital nerve)

Front 28

Nasolacrimal canal

Back 28

Nasolacrimal duct

Front 29

Carotid canal

Back 29

passage for internal carotid artery

Front 30

Stylomastoid foramen

Back 30

passage for cranial nerve VII (facial nerve)

Front 31

Cribiform plate

Back 31

CN I (olfactory nerve)

Front 32

Optic canal

Back 32

CN II (optic nerve)

Front 33

Foramen rotundum

Back 33

CN V2 (maxillary branch of trigeminal N)

Front 34

Foramen ovale

Back 34

CN V3 (Mandibular branch of trigeminal N)

Front 35

Foramen spinosum

Back 35

Middle menigeal vessels

Front 36

foramen lacerum

Back 36

Not a true opening filled with cartilage when a live

Front 37

internal acoustic meatus

Back 37

CN VIII (vestibulocochlear)

Front 38

Jugular foramen

Back 38

Internal jugular V, Cranial nerves IX,X,XI

Front 39

hypoglossal canal

Back 39

CN XII (Hypoglossal N)

Front 40

foramen magnum

Back 40

Vertebral arteries, spinal cord, CN XI (Accessory N)

Front 41

Mandibular foramen

Back 41

Passage for inferior alveolar nerve (Where you are injected with anesthetic during dental procedures.