Axial Skeleton: Mandible, Hyoid, Orbits, and Nasal Complexes

Vocabulary flashcards covering the axial skeleton topics including the mandible, hyoid bone, orbital bones, and nasal complexes.

Coronoid process

A landmark on the mandible that serves as the insertion for the temporalis muscle.

Mental protuberance

A structure on the mandible used for the attachment of facial muscles.

Mylohyoid line

A feature on the mandible that serves as the insertion site of the mylohyoid muscle.

Major mandible landmarks

The body, ramus, angle, head, condylar process, coronoid process, mandibular notch, mental foramen, and alveolar process.

Alveolar process of the mandible

The region of the mandible that supports the lower teeth.

Hyoid bone

A bone that supports the larynx and provides attachment for muscles of the larynx, pharynx, and tongue.

Greater horns of the hyoid

Structures of the hyoid bone that provide attachment for muscles of the tongue.

Lesser horns of the hyoid

Structures of the hyoid bone that attach to stylohyoid ligaments that support the hyoid and larynx.

Bones of the orbit

The 7 different bones that form each orbit: frontal, sphenoid, ethmoid, lacrimal, zygomatic, maxilla, and palatine.

Nasal complexes

Anatomical structures made up of the nasal cavities and paranasal sinuses.