I split the parietal bones into left and right halves.
What is the sagittal suture?
I am a big round ball posterior to the auditory meatus.
What is the mastoid process?
I am the muscle responsible for the child's face in the grocery lineup when they do not get what they want.
What is mentalis?
I have a superficial and deep head.
What is the masseter?
Frontal, ethmoidal, sphenoidal and maxillary.
What are the sinuses?
I split the skull into anterior and posterior regions.
What is the coronal suture?
I am the origin for the stylohyoid muscle.
What is the styloid process?
The trumpeter's muscle.
What is the buccinator?
I divide the TMJ into two separate compartments.
What is the articular disc?
Squishy structure superficial to the masseter.
What is the parotid gland?
I am the junction between the coronal and sagittal sutures.
What is the bregma?
I am the most lateral "process" of the hyoid bone.
What are the greater horns?
When treating the face in sinusitis, we peel laterally from the midline along the cheekbones to open the passageways. In the process, this little muscle is stretched.
What is the nasalis?
I work with the buccinator to hold food in the mouth when chewing.
What is the orbicularis oris?
Small flap that cover the External Auditory Meatus when compressed.
What is the tragus?
I run continously with the occipitomastoid suture.
What is the lamboid suture?
I am a distal attachment (insertion) of a prominent muscle of mastication.
What is the coronoid process?
I assist with fake smiling. Mmmhmmm
What is risorius?
I draw the articular disc in an anterior direction.
What is the lateral pterygoid?
The centre of the thyroid.
What is the laryngeal prominence?
I am a small suture joining bones that make a bridge to form a prominent feature of the face.
What is the zygomaticaotemporal suture?
Considered processes, we articulate with the Atlas to allow for nodding motions.
What are the occipital condyles?
Connected by the galea aponeurotica.
What is the occiptofrontalis?
We are the accessory muscles of mastication. For a bonus point, name them.
What are the suprahyoids? (Mylohyoid, Digastric, Geniohyoid, Stylohyoid)
The centre of the thyroid gland.
What is the isthmus?