Flashcards in The Head Deck (72)
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Excluding the auditory ossicles, how many bones form the skull?
22 bones
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How many bones form the neurocranium?
8 bones
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What bones form the neurocranium?
frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, sphenoid, and ethmoid
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How many bones form the facial skeleton?
14 bones
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What bones form the facial skeleton?
mandible, vomer, nasal, maxilla, lacrimal, inferior nasal concha, palatine, and zygomatic
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What are the four subclassifications of synarthrosis joints based on Latin groupings?
suture, gomphosis, schindylesis and syndesmosis
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What were the five types of suture based on Latin groupings?
serrate, denticulate, limbous, squamos, and harmonia
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What are the characteristics of sutura vera (true sutures)?
sutures demonstrating interlocking of the adjacent bone surfaces; typically formed by intramembranous ossification
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What are the characterisitics of sutura notha (false sutures)?
sutures lacking interlocking of adjacent bone surfaces; typically formed by endochondral ossification
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What were the classifications of sutura vera (true sutures) based on Latin groupings?
serrate, denticulate, and limbous
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What were the classifications of sutura notha (false sutures) based on Latin groupings?
squamos and harmonia
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What are the typical examples of the plane suture or harmonia suture?
cruciate suture made up of the intermaxillary, interpalatine, and palatomaxillary sutures
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What are the examples of the schindylesis type of suture?
sphenoid-ethmoid-vomer articulation, the palatine-maxilla-vomer articulation
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What are the examples of the gomphosis joint?
maxilla-root of tooth; mandible-root of tooth
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What are the five views of the skull called?
norma verticalis, norma frontalis, norma occipitalis, norma lateralis, norma basalis
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What is the diamond shaped remnant of developing membrane bone at the intersection of the frontal bone with both parietal bones?
the anterior fontanelle
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What is the posterior fontanelle?
the diamond shaped remnant of developing membrane bone at the intersection of the occipital bone with both parietal bones
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What is the diamond shaped remnant of developing membrane bone at the intersection of the occipital bone with both parietal bones?
the posterior fontanelle
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What is the name given to the outline of the nasal cavity at the front of the skull?
piriform aperture
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What is the name given to the alveolar jugum of the canine tooth in the maxilla?
canine eminence
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What forms a bullet-like chin?
a large mental protuberance
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What forms an indented chin?
well developed bilateral mental tubercles and a slight mental protuberance
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What is the tip of the external occipital protuberance called?
the inion
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What bones form the pterion?
parietal, temporal, sphenoid, and frontal bones
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What points on the skull are used to measure skull size?
the nasion, vertex, inion, and gnathion
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What points on the skull are used to measure cranial vault capacity?
the nasion, vertex, and inion
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The olfactory nerve exits the cranial vault via what opening?
cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone
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What passes through the foramen cecum?
an emissary vein
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What is the anterior boundary of the middle cranial fossa?
lesser wings, anterior clinoid processes and spehnoidal jugum of sphenoid bone
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