Cranial
Bones
Bones
Two bones forming the sides and top of the cranium.
What are the Parietal bones?
Also known as cheekbones or malar bones.
What are the Zygomatic bones?
Seven bones located below the skull; provide support, structure, and flexibility to the neck.
What are the Cervical Vertebrae?
five bones, or metacarpals, of the palm located between the carpus and phalanges
What are the Metacarpals?
Also called the kneecap.
What is the Patella?
Two bones forming the sides of the head in the ear region.
What are the Temporal bones?
Two small, thin bones located in the front inside wall of the eye sockets.
What are the Lacrimal bones?
U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports it and its muscles; the only bone of the throat.
What is the Hyoid bone?
Also known as the wrist
What is the Carpus?
Also called the shinbone.
What is the Tibia?
What is the Occipital bone?
Two bones that form the bridge of the nose.
What are the nasal bones
Also called the shoulder blade.
What are the Scapulae?
Also known as digits; bones of fingers/toes
What are the Phalanges?
Located on the little-toe side of the lower leg; smallest of the two bones
What is the Fibula?
Forms the forehead.
What is the Frontal bone?
Two bones that form the upper jaw.
What are the Maxillae bones?
Also know as the collarbone; joins the sternum and scapula.
What is the Clavicle?
Smaller bone in the forearm on the same side as the thumb.
What is the Radius?
Forms the base and sides of the skull.
What is the sphenoid bone?
Largest and strongest bone of the face that forms the lower jaw.
What is the Mandible?
The inner and larger bone in the forearm located on the side of the little finger.
What is the Ulna?
Separates the nasal cavity from the brain.
What is the Ethmoid bone?