D170 W15 The Skull Williams

What are the four components of the human skeleton?

What are the differences between the axial and appendicular skeletons? What regions do they consist of?

What are the functions of the cranial bones?

Of the facial bones?

How are the bones of the skull held together?

What are the major cavities of the skull? What do they hold?

What is a suture? Describe the orientation of and the bones that the following sutures connect:

Coronal suture –

Squamous suture –

Sagittal suture –

Lambdoid suture –

Give a description of and the relative location of the following cranial bones and their landmarks. As you are doing this, refer to the figures in the book to visualize the location of these structures and their relationship to other structures. See Table 7.1 for a summary.

Parietal bones –

Frontal bone –

Occipital bone –

Foramen magnum –

Occipital condyle –

Temporal bones –

Zygomatic process –

Mandibular fossa –

External acoustic meatus –

Jugular foramen –

Styloid process –

Mastoid process –

Sphenoid bone –

Sella turcica –

Hypophyseal fossa –

Pterygoid processes –

Optic canal –

Ethmoid bone –

Cribiform plates –

Crista galli –

Facial Bones

Mandible –

Ramus –

Coronoid process (of mandible) –

Condylar process (of mandible) –

Mandibular notch –

Maxillary bones (maxillae) –

Zygomatic processes –

Zygomatic bones –

Nasal bones –

Lacrimal bones –

Palatine bones –

Vomer –

Inferior nasal conchae –

What is the nasal cavity made of (generally)? What does the mucous membrane that covers its walls do? You don’t need to know the specific bones that make up the nasal cavity.

What are the paranasal sinuses? What bones are part of the paranasal sinuses? What are the functions of the paranasal cavities?

What are the orbits? What structures do they hold? Don’t need to know the specific bones that make up the orbits.