Sutures
Skull
Facial
Honorable Mentions
Cavities, Regions and Misc.
100
Between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones. This suture runs horizontally across the top of the skull, from ear to ear.
What is the Coronal?
100
Number of bones in the skull
8
100
This is one of a pair that together form the upper jaw, much of the hard palate, the medial floor of the orbit, and the lateral base of the nose.
What is the maxillary bone or the maxilla
100
The rounded top of the skull.
What is the Skull Cap?
100
The Mandible is located what to the Maxilla.
What is inferior?
200
A small, capital-H-shaped suture line region that unites the frontal bone, parietal bone, squamous portion of the temporal bone, and greater wing of the sphenoid bone.
What is the Pterion?
200
This is the posterior bone and base of the Skull.
What is the Occipital bone.
200
This pair of bones are small, rectangular bone that forms the anterior, medial wall of the orbit.
What is the Lacrimal?
200
The name of our skeleton.
Mr. Bones, Mr. Skinny
200
At birth, how many facial and skull bones do you have total?
23. The Mandible fuses together during the 1st year to create 22.
300
Between the two parietal bones. It runs along the midline of the skull, from the front to the back.
What is the Saggitial?
300
The single bone that forms the forehead.
Frontal bone
300
What is the Zygomatic Bones?
300
Name this.
What is the Foramen Magnum.
300
Another name for tears.
What is Lacrimal fluid?
400
Between the parietal bones and the occipital bone. This suture runs across the back of the skull and forms a triangle with the sagittal suture.
What is the Lambdoid?
400
These form most of the upper lateral side of the skull. These are paired bones, with these bones joining together at the top of the skull.
What is the Parietal Bones?
400
This is an unpaired, triangular-shaped bone and forms the posterior-inferior part of the nasal septum.
What is the Vomer?
400
The attachment for the Hyoid bone.
None. The hyoid bone is an independent bone that does not contact any other bone and thus is not part of the skull.
400
Name the three fossas of the cranial cavity.
What is Anterior, middle and Posterior?
500
Describe the Metopic suture.
Between the two halves of the frontal bone. This suture usually fuses in early childhood, but in some individuals, it remains visible into adulthood.
500
This bone joins with almost every other bone in the Skull and contains the sella turcica (“Turkish saddle”).
What is the Sphenoid bone?
500
This pair of bones form a curved bony plate that projects into the nasal cavity space from the lower lateral wall. This can easily be seen when looking into the anterior opening of the nasal cavity.
What is Inferior Nasal Conchae?
500
The External acoustic meatus (ear canal), is a region of this bone.
What is the Temporal bone.
500
This is a projection of the temporal bone and serves as an attachment for several neck muscles.
What is the Mastoid Process.
600
Between the parietal bone and the temporal bone on each side of the skull. This suture is on the side of the skull and is curved.
What is the Squamous suture?
600
The Cribiform plates are part of this bone.
What is Ethmoid?
600
Small openings located on the anterior portion of the mandible.
What is mental Foramen?
600
Name one of the 3 small bones in the inner ear.
What is the malleus (hammer), incus (anvil) and stapes (stirrup)?
600
This divides the ventral Cavities.
What is the diaphragm?