Exam 6: The Skull

The palatine bone articulates with the sphenoid bone, the ethmoid bone, the vomer, the opposite palatine bone, and the _____________________.

The bony sockets in the maxilla and mandible that support the teeth are the _________.

The ________ bone(s) help form the nasal cavity (lateral wall and floor), the oral cavity (posterior third of the hard palate), the pterygopalatine fossa, and the orbit (a portion of the posterior wall).

The right and left maxillae help form all of the following except the __________.

The __________ bone contributes to the anterior cranial fossa; the roof, lateral wall, and median septum of the nasal cavity; and the medial wall of the orbit.

The ridge of bone that peaks upward in the median plane into the anterior cranial fossa and is attached to the falx cerebri is the _____________________________.

In the neurocranium, the _________ bone contributes to the forehead, the anterior cranial fossa, and the roof of the bony orbits.

All of the following are bones in the facial skeleton except the __________ bone.

The _________ bone is a small, thin bone with two surfaces and four borders that articulates with the maxilla, the ethmoid bone, the frontal bone, and the inferior concha.

_________ is an anthropological landmark marked by the intersection of the sagittal and coronal sutures in the skull.

The _________ bone contributes to the anterior cranial fossa, the middle cranial fossa, orbit, infratemporal roof, and roof and lateral wall of the nasal cavity. It fuses with the occipital bone after adolescence.

The mandible articulates with the _______ bone.

The _______ of the mandible is a roller-shaped process that articulates with the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone.

The bone that is roughly diamond-shaped, with four borders and four angles, and that articulates with the frontal bone, sphenoid bone, temporal bone, and maxilla is the ________.

Which of the following is NOT a bone of the neurocranium?

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

The nasal bone articulates with the opposite nasal bone, the frontal bone, the maxilla, and the _________ bone.

Which of the following bones have not fused yet as single bones in the neonatal skull?

The __________ is bounded posteriorly by the paramedian dorsum sellae and by two oblique petrous temporal ridges and accommodates the hypophysis cerebri in the median plane and the temporal lobes of the brain laterally.

In the posterior cranial fossa, the __________ is a large, oval-shaped opening through which the spinal cord is continuous with the brainstem above.