Foramina
This foramina is located on the tympanic portion of the temporal bone and leads to the tympanic cavity
What is the external acoustic meatus
This fossa presents as a shadow around the mandibular anterior teeth on a periapical x-ray
What is the mental fossa
Half of this arch is formed by the slender zygomatic process of the temporal bone
What is the zygomatic arch
The bones of the skull are immovable and joined together by fibrous joints called?
What are sutures
These small projections on the medial surface of the mental area serve as muscle attachments
What are the genial tubercles
What are the hypoglossal canals
This fossa is inferior to the temporal fossa and is located on the lateral portion of the pterygoid process of the Sphenoid bone.
What is the infratemporal fossa
This bone projects from the maxilla and is responsible for some of our nasal congestion when we have a cold
What is the inferior nasal conchae
The orbit of the skull is made up of how many bones?
What is 7
The mandibular foramen is located on which of the three sections of the mandible
One of five openings on the sphenoid bone, this one transmits the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve
What is the foramen rotundum
This fossa sits between the medial and lateral pterygoid plates of the sphenoid bone
What is the pterygoid fossa
The articulation of the horizontal plates of the palatine bones and the maxilla is called what?
What is the transverse palatine suture
The occipital condyles articulate with which cervical vertebra?
What is the atlas bone
This is the only process on the mandible that articulates with the skull
What is the condyle or condylar process
This foramina can be palpated midway between the median palatine raphe and the palatal gingiva of the maxillary first or second molar
What is the greater palatine foramen
This fossa is the deepest part of the sella turcica and houses the pituitary gland
What is the hypophyseal fossa
This facial bone houses the largest of the sinuses
What is the maxilla
This bone has a wedge-like area called the crista galli that extends from the nasal cavity into the cranial cavity
What is the ethmoid bone
This bony projection overhangs the mandibular foramen and serves as an attachment site for the sphenomandibular ligament
What is the lingula
This foramina carries the nasopalatine nerve
What is the incisive foramen
This fossa is cone-shaped and between the maxilla, sphenoid, and palatine bones.
What is the pterygopalatine fossa
The maxilla consists of a body and how many processes?
*Name them all and get 1 point added to your final exam grade
What are 4
Alveolar, palatine, zygomatic, and frontal.
This bone contains all the foramina that the CN V branches enter the facial cavity through
What is the sphenoid bone
This depressed area on the condyle of the mandible serves as the attachment site for the lateral pterygoid muscles
What is the pterygoid fovea