The skull

How many sutured bones make up the cranium?

8

List 3 functions of the cranium?

Protects brain

Protects organs of vision, taste, hearing, equilibrium, and smell

Serves as attachment site for muscles

What type of fibrous joint is found in the cranium?

Suture

What is the joint between the mandible and

the temporal bone?

Temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ)

What is the only non-sutured joint in the skull?

Temporo-mandibular joint

What is the cheek bone?

Zygomatic arch

What is the bony outgrowth of the base of the temporal bone?

Mastoid Process

How many bones make up the face?

14 bones (13 sutured and 1 mandible)

What is the only bone in the body that does not articulate with another bone?

Hyoid bone

Identify which bones form the sides and tops of the skull?

Parietal bones

Identify which bone is the bone of the forehead?

Frontal bone

Identify which bone is the arching bone of the eyebrows?

Supraciliary arch

Identify the name for the hollow part of the skull which contains the eye?

Orbital cavity

Identify which bone is the bone of the nose?

Nasal bone

Identify the term for the cavity of the nose?

Nasal fossa

Identify which bone forms the bony upper part of the jaw?

Maxilla

Identify which bone forms the bony lower part of the jaw?

Mandible

Identify the term used for the foramen that leads from outside the head to ear drum?

External Auditory Meatus

Identify the term used for the bump on the external surface of the occipital bone?

External occipital protuberance

Identify the term used for the part of the skull between the eyebrows?

Glabella

Identify the term used for the bone that serves as a moveable base for the tongue, and other muscle attachments?

Hyoid bone

Identify the term used for the part of the mandible that forms the chin?

Mental process

Identify the term used for the bone that is located anterior to our "temples"?

Sphenoid bone

Identify the term used for the holes in the face that allow nerves to pass through?

Foramen

Identify 8 movements involving the head/neck?

Flexion

Extension

Lateral flexion L

Lateral flexion R

Protraction

Retraction

Rotation R

Rotation L