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| What is the Neurocranium? |
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| What does the Neurocranium include? |
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| Calvaria and Cranial Base |
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| What is the Cranial Base? |
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| The floor of the carnial cavity. Has three shelfs: Anterior, Middle, and Posterior Cranial Fossa |
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| What is the viscerocranium? |
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| What does the viscerocranium include? |
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Orbits
Nasal Cavities
Hard Palate
Zygomatic Arch
Infratemporal fossa |
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| What are the nasal cavities? |
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| 2 cavities for space for the nose; Bony nasal septum and the pirifor aperture |
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| What is the bony dividing wall between the bisecting cavities in the nasal cavity? |
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| What is the pear shaped outlet of the nose called? |
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| What is the bony portion of the roof of the mouth called? |
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| What is the zygomatic arch? |
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| below the eye bridge of cheek to ear. |
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| The depression below the zygomatic arch is called? |
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| fibrous joints. they "glue the cracks" |
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| What is the rainbow sutures on top of the head that goes cheek bone to cheek bone? |
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| What is the rainbow suture on the back of the head? |
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| What is the midline suture on top of the head that connects the two rainbows? |
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| What is the sutrue on the side of the head that connects cheeks to ear? |
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| What are the bones of the neurocranium? |
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Frontal Bone
Parietal bones
Occipital bone
Temporal bone
Ethmoid Bone
Sphenoid Bone |
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| What is the bone that makes up the forehead? |
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| What is the ridge above the eye, where the eyebrows go, called? What bone is it on? |
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| Supraorbital margin of the Frontal Bone |
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| What bones are on each side of the sagittal suture? |
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| What bone makes up the back of the skull cap (most posterior)? |
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| What is the bump in the middle of the back of the head called? |
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| External occipital protuberance of the occipital bone. |
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| What articulates with the 1st cervical vertebrae. The smooth bumps on the side of the foramin magnum? |
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| What are the ridges/lines that run out from the nape/back of the neck? |
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| What bone houses the inner ear? |
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| What is the large bump posterior to the ear hole? |
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| What is the needle coming out down the ear hole that is very thin and most are broken? |
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| What is the posterior part of the Zygomatic Arch called? |
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| What contains the ear organs of hearing and balance? It is a dividing wall between the middle and posterior cranial fossa of the base. |
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| What is the underside of the temporal bone where the mandible sits called? |
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| What bone sits behind the face/nose? |
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| Which bone is the top ridge of the bone right behind the nose that looks like a "cocks comb" |
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| Crista galli of the ethmoid bone. |
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| What is the top surface of the bone that sits right behind the nose. The surface has lots of holes. |
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| Cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone |
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| What helps form the bony nasal septum and runs straight down from the top of the etmoid bone? |
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| Perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone. |
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| What are the shiny sides of the ethmoid bone that touches the eye socket? |
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| In the ethmoid bone, what are they pointing to when they stick the pipe cleaner way up inside it? |
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| On the ethmoid bone, what are the tips beside the perpendicular plate? External Ridge |
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| What is the butterfly bone called? |
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| What is the saddle/ middle point? |
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| What are the legs of the process called? It splits into "toes", which are? |
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| Pterygoid process. Medial Plates are the inner toes and the Lateral plates are the outside toes |
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| What is the lower jaw called? |
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| What is the portion of the lower jaw called with the teeth and is most anterior? |
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| What are the tooth sockets called of the lower jaw? |
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| Dental Alveoli of the Mandible |
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| What is the point where the lower jaw curves sharply called? |
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| What is the wall going up the lower jaw called? |
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| What is the more anterior blade-like projection from the lower jaw wall? |
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| Coronoid process of the Mandible |
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| What is the more posterior, blunt-like projection from the lower jaw wall called? |
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| Condylar process of the Mandible |
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| What is the tip of the condylar process called? |
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| What is the valley between the condylar process and the coronoid process? |
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| What are the two bones that make up the upper jaw? |
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| The contains a large air sinus and houses teeth in the upper jaw? |
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| What are the tooth sockets of the upper jaw called? |
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| Dental alveoli of the maxilla |
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| What is the raised ridge below the eye called? |
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| What is the anterior 2/3 of the hard palate called? |
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| Palatine process of the hard palate |
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| What are the cheek bones? |
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| what is the most anterior 1/2 of the zygomatic arch called? |
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| Temporal process of the zygomatic bones |
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| What are the nose bones called? |
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| What is the posterior 1/3 of the hard palate called? |
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| horizontal plate of teh palatine bones |
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| What is the lateral wall of the nasal cavity called? |
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| Perpendicular plate of the palatine bone. |
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| What is the bottom anterior hole in the orbit in front of the orbital plate called? It will bring tears to your eyes |
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| Opening for nasolacrimal duct of the lacrimal bones |
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| What are the projections on the inside of lateral wall of nasal cavity called? |
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| This makes up the bottom part of the bony nasal septum. |
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