Skull Bones and their locations

Foramen

opening/hole

Fossa

depression

Process

projection

Condyle

rounded articular projection

Meatus

canal-like passageway

Suture

immovable joint between skull bones

Frontal

Forehead; anterior skull

Parietal

Superior and lateral skull

Temporal

Lateral skull; around the ears

Occipital

Posterior and inferior skull

Sphenoid

Central skull; base of skull and behind the eyes

Ethmoid

Between the eyes; roof of nasal cavity

Maxillae

Upper jaw; anterior hard palate

Mandible

Lower jaw

Zygomatic

Cheekbones; lateral walls of the orbits

Nasal

Bridge of the nose

Lacrimal

Medial walls of the orbits

Palatine

Posterior hard palate

Inferior nasal conchae

Lateral walls of the nasal cavity

Vomer

Midline of nasal cavity; inferior nasal septum