Skull Bones 1
Jawbone
What is mandible
Forehead Bone
What is frontal bone
Type of bones that most of the skull bones are
The bones at the base of the vertebral column made of fused vertebrae.
What are the sacrum and coccyx?
The vertebrae that the ribs connect to
What is thoracic vertebrae
Back/base of the head bone
What is occipital bone
Bones that hold the upper teeth
What are maxilla
Sinuses
What are hollow areas in bones near the nose
What intervertebral discs are made of
What is fibrocartilage?
What is the temporal bone
Outer cheek bones
What are zygomatic bones
Sutures
Immovable joints that connect most pieces of the skull.
The areas of secondary curvature
What are the cervical and lumbar curvatures?
What is a false rib?
A rib that does not have its own connection to the sternum, it either shares cartilage or does not have any connecting it to the sternum.
Butterfly shaped bone supporting much of the interior of the skull
What is the sphenoid bone
Bone in the back of the upper mouth
What are palatine bones
The membrane areas between bones in an infant's skull
What are fontanels?
The purpose of vertebral processes.
What attaches to muscles, ligaments and ribs for the thoracic vertebrae.
The proper term for the ribcage
What is the bony thorax?
What is vomer and inferior nasal conchae
Bone found in the nasal cavity as a conchae, in the orbital cavity and stretching up into the brain area.
What is the ethmoid bone?
Bone that is not connected to the skull or spinal cord but supports the tongue and vocal cords
What is the hyoid bone?
The opening in a vertebra that allows the spinal cord to go through
What is the vertebral foramen
Tissue that connects the ribs to the sternum
What is costal (hyaline) cartilage?