Skull
How many bones make up the cranium?
What is 8
How many facial bones are included in the face?
What is 14
Which set of sinuses is not part f the cranial bones, but is a facial bone?
Maxillary sinus
What part of teh mandible makes up the TM joint?
What are the condyles or condyloid process
How many degrees are between the OML and the IOML?
What is 7
Which suture separates the frontal bone from the two parietal bones?
What is the coronal suture
Which bone contains the EAM?
What is the temporal bone.
What is the area called that supports the teeth in the maxilla and mandible?
What is teh alveolar process
Which position of the sinus will show all 4 sets of sinus in profile?
What is the lateral .
What are the 2 positions required when x-raying the tmj's.
What are open and closed mouth
What is the largest movable bone of the facial bones?
Which suture separates the two parietal bones from the occipital bone?
What is the lambdoidal
Which bone contains the foramen magnum?
What is the occipital bone.
What is the point of junction called where both nasal bones meet?
What is the nasion
What is the name of the drainage pathway of the sinuses?
What is the osteomeatalcomplex.
What is the point of union between both halves of the mandible?
What is the mentum
What is the name of the area in the ethmoid bone that contains many small openings through which the olfactory nerves form smell pass through?
What is the cribiform plate
Which suture is formed by the inferior junctions of the two parietal bones with their respective temporal bones?
What is the squasmosal
What skull landmark corresponds at the same level as the petrous ridges?
What is the TEA
What is the name of the facial bones that house the tear ducts?
What are the lacrimal bones
What is the older name for the maxillary sinuses?
What is the antrum of highmore.
What serves as a passage way for the mental artery and vein that controls the lip and chin?
What is the mental foramen
The pituitary gland is protected by which bone?
What is the sphenoid
What is the name of the largest fontanel in an infants skull?
What is the anterior fontanel.
Which skull bone articulates with all skull bones?
What is the sphenoid
Which facial bones are the largest immovable bones in the face?
What are the maxillae bones
The open mouth waters projection can demonstrate fluid in which sinus. This can also indicate a basilar skull fx.
What are The sphenoid sinuses
What is the only moveable joint in the skull
What is teh tmj
What are the names of the membrane covered soft spots in an infants skull?
What are fontanels
What is the name for infection of the sinuses?
What is sinusitis