Foramina
Foramen that contains axons of olfactory cells in olfactory epithelium that form olfactory nerves.
What are the neurocranium and the viscerocranium?
The parts of the skull that contribute to the temporal fossa.
What are the temporal, parietal, occipital, and sphenoid bones?
What is the depressor septi nasi?
Foramen that contains the spinal cord
What is the foramen magnum?
Suture that separates the parietal and occipital bones?
What is the lambdoid suture?
Extension of the carotid canal
What is the petrous part?
Muscle allowing you to close eyelids
What is obicularis oculi?
What is the Occipitofrontalis?
Foramen that contains the maxillary nerve
What is the foramen rotundum?
One of the thinnest portions of the skull lovated at the junction of the temporal, parietal, occipital, sphenoid bones?
What is the Pterion?
Portion of the skull where the pituitary gland sits
What is the sella tursica?
Muscle that elevates and protrudes lower lip
What is the mentalis?
Muscle that presses cheek against molar teeth
What is the buccinator muscle?
Foramen consisting of deep petrosal nerve and some meningeal arteries and some veins
What is the foramen lacerum?
One of the superior attachment points for the ligamentum nuchae
What is the external occipital pertuberance?
Where we can find attachments of the pterygoid muscles.
Muscle that retracts/ elevates upper lip
What is the levator labii superioris?
Muscle whose tonus closes the oral fissure
What is the obicularis oris?
Foramen that contains ophthalamic veins, ophthalamic nerve, CN III, IV, and VI, and sympathetic fibers
What is the superior orbital fissure?
Bony connection of temporal bone and zygomatic bone
What is the zygomatic arch?
How the skull can redirect pressure in response to shock.
What are the buttresses of the skull?
Muscle that depresses labial commissure bilaterally to frown.
What is the risorius?
Muscle that depresses ala laterally, dilating nasal aperture
What is the alar part of nasalis plus levator labii superioris alaeque nasalis?