Facial Bones
This bone is our jaw, containing two arms and the mental foramen
What is the mandible?
This bone contains the foramen magnum and is found in the back of the skull
What is the occipital bone?
This is the vertebrae that attaches directly to and holds up our skull.
What is the atlas?
This bone is in the center of your chest and is connected to the ribs.
What is the sternum?
This bone is known as our collar bone.
What is the clavicle?
This is superior to the jaw, containing aveolar margins and the largest sinuses in the skull
What is the maxilla(e)?
This oddly shaped bone contains the cribriform plate and nasal conchae. Due to its location, it is also considered a facial bone.
What is the ethmoid bone?
Consists of vertebrae Co1-Co4. All of them are fused together by our late teens.
What is the coccyx?
The name of the cartilage that connects the ribs and sternum?
What is costal cartilage?
This bone is known as our shoulder bone and articulates with the humerus.
What is the scapula?
This is a small, flat, triangular shaped bone that can be found near the nasal cavity.
What is the vomer?
This bone contains the acoustic meatus and zygomatic arch, and is found on the side of the head.
What is the temporal bone?
These vertebrae are small and contain transverse foramen.
What are cervical vertebrae?
The name for ribs that are not attached to the sternum exlcusively by their own cartilage. In some cases, they don't attach at all!
What are false ribs?
This cavity on the scapula is where the head of the humerus fits in.
What is the glenoid cavity?
Located in the orbit, these small bones help form part of the area that drains the eye.
What are the lacrimal bones?
This marking is found on the frontal bone and forms our brow ridges just superior of the orbit.
What the supercilliary arches?
This structure on the axis forms a join with the atlas that allows us to turn our heads.
What is the dens?
Our first and second ribs are attached to this specific part of our center chest bone.
What is the manubrium?
This structure on the scapula articulates with the acromial end of the clavicle.
What is the acromion?
This process on the mandible articulates with the zygomatic bone, forming just above the mandibular ramus and splitting with the mandibular condyle
What is the coronoid process?
These holes in the sphenoid bone allow our optic nerves to pass through to the orbit.
What are the optical canals?
Found on the sides of the sacrum, these holes allow spinal nerves all nerves to pass through and travel to the lower part of the body. They are found on the anterior and posterior portions of the bone
What are the sacral foramina?
This part of the rib attaches to the transverse process of the vertebrae.
What is the tubercle?
This depression in the body of the scapula allows serves as the attachment site for our largest rotator cuff muscle.
What is the subscapular fossa?