Skull Bones (part of axial skeleton)

Parietal bones

line down the middle is a…

Sagittal Suture

around split in orbit are the…

Sphenoid bones

Lambdoid

pointy part is called

External occipital protuberance

top suture is called

coronal suture

Bone in nose

Ethmoid Bone

bone in between corner of eyes “tear bones”

lacrimal

Paranasal pones: the four bones around the nose that have sinuses

frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid and maxillary

Palatine

the hard plate, roof of mouth

middle Nasal conchae

sinus

fight off infection, has fluid, makes Skull less heavy

Facial bones, now many?

14

Lacrimal Fossa

Space for tear ducs

Superior orbital Fissure- from the the floor of the cranial cavity, its the long oval opening on the sides of the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone, from anterior view it’s the crack in eye socket

The vomer

Forms the inferior portion of the bony nasal Septum, the end of the nasal septum

Mandibular notch- Separates condylar and Coronoid processes, the u arch between them

Mental foramen

holes in the mandible

middle Nasal Conchae

Nasal conchae’s allows air to pass through nose

Fontanelle

pre-sucural cartilage

Inferior nasal concha

Foramen Magnum

Big oval opening (part of the occipital bone

Jugular foramen

Anterior fontanelle

made of fibrous membranes in a fetal skull, located between the two frontal and two parietal bones

sphenoidal fontanelle

styloid process

Mastoid process

external auditory/acoustic meatus

Superior nuchal line

external occipital procurance

Mandibular fossa- the fossa that the condylar process goes into

Occipital condyles

External occipital crest

cribriform plate

in the middle is the

Sella turcica

optic canal

foramen spinosum

Crista Galli