Cranial Bones I
Cranial Bones II
Facial Bones I
Facial Bones II
Sutures
100
Most anterior bone of the cranium.
What is the frontal?
100

ethmoid

100

This bone joins the temporal bone to the maxilla and makes part of your cheek bone.

What is the zygomatic bone?

100

Tear ducts pass through here.

What is the lacrimal bone?

100

Synarthrotic joint between frontal and parietal bones.

What is the coronal suture?

200

Bone pair joined by the sagittal suture.

What is the parietal?

200

Bone at posterior and base of skull.  Articulates with C1 vertebra.

What is the occipital bone?

200

This bone makes up your lower jaw.

Mandible

200

Forms the bony nasal septum, separating left nostril from right nostril.

What is the vomer?

200

Synarthrotic joint between parietal bones.

What is the sagittal suture?

300

What is the bone in blue. 

What is the temporal bone?

300

The site of the mastoid and styloid processes.

What is temporal bone?

300

Bony skeleton of the nose.

What is the nasal bone?

300

These bones create part of your nasal sinus. There is an inferior, middle, and superior.

Conchae

300

Synarthrotic joint between the temporal and parietal bones.

What is the squamous suture?

400

This bone is one bone that goes through the skull and looks like a butterfly.

Sphenoid

400

How many bones are there in the adult human skull?

22

8 cranial and 14 facial

400

Fused bones form the posterior bony roof of the mouth.

What is the palatine bone?

400

This is the only bone that does not articulate with another bone in the body.

What is the hyoid?

400

Synarthrotic joint between the occipital and parietal bones.

What is the lambdoid suture?

500

These are the only two bones of the cranial bones that are duplicates (there are two of them).

Parietal and temporal

500

Name the two foramen (above and below) the eye socket. 


How does their name indicate their locations?

supraorbital

infraorbital

supra means superior

infra means inferior

500

Fused bones forming the anterior roof of the mouth.

What is the maxilla?

500

Site of mental foramen.

What is the mandible?

500

Soft spots in infantile skulls made of fibrous connective tissue before sutures form.

fontanels

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