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