Basic
The Cranium and Facial Skeleton
What are the 2 parts of the skull
It is a fibrous joint that joins the frontal and parietal bones
What is the coronal suture?
The Vomer
Name an unpaired facial bone?
It is the smallest facial bone
What is the lacrimal bone?
synovial joint
What type of joint is the TMJ?
These are the cranial bones
What are the frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid?
It is butterfly or bat shaped
What shape is the sphenoid bone?
This is the cheek bone:
What is zygomatic bone?
The mandible
What is the only movable facial bone?
Alveolar process
What is the process that holds the teeth in place?
These are the facial bones
What are maxilla, mandible, zygomatic, nasal, inferior nasal conchae, vomer, lacrimal, palatine?
The occipital bone
What bone forms the base of the skull?
The palatine bones
What bones are at the back of the hard palate?
The Zygomatic, Frontal, Palatine and Alveolar
What are the four processes of the maxilla called?
The Nasolacrimal canal
What canal contains the nasolacrimal duct which drains tears from the eyes?
The suture that connects the occipital and parietal bones
What is the lambdoidal?
The temporal bones
What facial bones articulate with the mandible?
It forms the bridge of the nose
What is the function of the nasal bones?
Mental
Name a foramen of the mandible?
The coronoid process
What is the sharp process of the mandible?
The hinge joints where the skull joins the atlas
What are the occipital condyles?
A bone that has perforations that allow for the sense of smell
What is the ethmoid bone?
It is a bone that forms part of the nasal septum:
What is the vomer?
Mental protuberance
What is the prominent part at the front of the mandible called?
Zygomatic arch
What is the origin of the Masseter muscle?