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What bone separates the nose into right and left halves?

Vomer

What is housed in the lacrimal bone?

Lacrimal sac

Name three things the paranasal sinuses do.

Lighten skull, resonance for voice, cleanse and moisten air

Why are the paranasal sinuses so susceptible to infections?

Because they are lined with a mucous membrane

What process comes off the temporal bone to help form the cheek?

Zygomatic process

The temporal process projects off of which bone to help form the cheek?

Zygomatic bone

The temporal process projects off of which bone to help form the cheek?

Zygomatic bone

The temporal process projects off of which bone to help form the cheek?

Zygomatic bone

What is the name of the opening that allows for hearing information to make it to the brain?

Internal acoustic meatus

What bone is the above opening in?

Temporal bone

What is the name of the opening that the brain stem travels through to deliver nerves to the body?

Foramen magnum

What bone is the above opening in?

Occipital bone

What is the name of the region the pituitary gland rests in?

Sella turcica

What bone is the above region in?

Sphenoid

Tiny bones bearing tear ducts?

Lacrimal

Anterior part of hard palate?

Maxilla

Site of mastoid process?

Temporal bone

Site of sella turcica?

Sphenoid bone

Site of the styloid process?

Temporal bone

Bones containing a nasal sinus (four answers)?

Maxilla, Frontal bone, Sphenoid, Ethmoid

Articulates with the atlas?

Occipital bone

Foramen magnum located here?

Occipital bone

Middle ear found here?

Temporal bone

Forehead bone?

Frontal bone

Cheekbone?

Zygomatic bone

Lower jaw?

Mandible

Bridge of nose?

Nasal bones

Posterior part of hard palate?

Palatine bone

Much of the lateral and superior cranium?

Parietal bone

Most posterior part of cranium?

Occipital bone

Single, irregular, bat-shaped bone forming part of the cranial floor?

Sphenoid

Nasal septum?

Vomer and Ethmoid