The Skull (A&P)

Frontal bone

forehead

Parietal bone

on each side of top of skull

Temporal bone

side, above ear

Occipital bone

back of skull

Sphenoid bone

within the cranium, partly visible in eye socket (butterfly)

Maxilla bone

forms upper jaws

Ethmoid bone

nasal cavity, visible in eye socket

Mandible bone

lower jaws

Zygomatic bone

cheek bones

Vomer bone

divides nasal cavity

Palatine bone

forms roof of mouth

Ethmoid bone

roof of nasal cavity

Coronal suture

between frontal and parietal bones

Lambdoid suture

between occipital and parietal bones

Squamous suture

between temporal and parietal bones

Sagittal suture

between parietal bones

Mental foramen

chin

Infraorbital foramen

under the eye

Supraorbital foramen

above the eye

Foramen magnum

Large opening at bottom of skull