Skull bone parts

For memorizing features

lacrimal fossa

frontal bone area under lacrimal bone

suborbital foramen

hole in eyebrow area

external occipital protuberance

bump in back of skull

foramen magnum

hole for brain stem

jugular foramen

holes on each side of occipital bone

carotid canal

holes on each side of temporal bone

external acoustic meatus

outer ear hole in temporal bone

internal acoustic meatus

inner ear hole in temporal bone

mastoid process

round point behind ear

mandibular fossa

divot for jaw to fit in temporal bone

petrous portion

dense medial temporal bone

styloid process

point on temporal bone near jaw

zygomatic process

dorsal part of zygomatic arch

temporal process

ventral part of zygomatic arch

angle of mandible

lower corner of mandible

alveolar process

where teeth are held in

mandibular condyle

back top hook of jaw

coronoid process

front top hook of jaw

mandibular foramen

holes in middle of ramus

mandibular notch

trough of upper ramus

mandibular ramus

whole back section of madible

infraorbital foramen

holes lateral to nose in maxilla

palatine process

ventral ¾ of hard palate

foramen ovule

oval hole in sphenoid

foramen lacerum

hole bound partially by sphenoid

foramen rotundum

circular hole in sphenoid

foramen spinosum

small outer holes in sphenoid

hypophyseal fossa of sella turcica

medial sphenoid bone in saddle shape

superior orbital fissure

gap between greater and lesser wings of the sphenoid bone

cribiform plate

roof of nasal cavity in sphenoid

foramina

small medial eye socket holes in sphenoid bone

crista galli

medial ridge of ethmoid bone

perpendicular plate of ethmoid

medial nasal cavity divider