Exercise 9
What is the name of the bony process posterior to the earlobe?
Mastoid Processs
What is the common name for the zygomatic bone?
Cheek bone
Based on what you know about the maxillary sinus, why would a significant impact to the maxilla create a more difficult situation for healing than would the fracture of a long bone?
Due to the maxillary sinus, there is not much bone in the wall of the maxilla. Long bones are thicker and are easier to set. The healing of the maxilla is like trying to flue an egg shell back together.
The eyebrows are superficial to what bone?
Frontal (supraorbital ridges)
What are the names of the major paranasal sinuses?
Frontal, Ethmoid, Sphenoid, Maxillary
The upper teeth are held by what bones?
Held by the maxillae
The sagittal suture separates the _______ from the________
Left parietal, right parietal
In what bone would find the foramen magnum?
Occiptal Bone
The hard palate is made up of what bones?
Palantine
The sella turcicia is found in what bone?
Sphenoid Bone
Which bone is not located in the orbit?
Temporal
The mandible fits into what part of the temporal bone to form the jaw joint?
The mandibular fossa of the temporal bone
What are the names of the bones that surround the opening of the nose?
The nasal bone and maxillae
What are the two bony structures that make up the nasal septum?
The perpendicular plate of the ethmoid and the vomer
What bone is found just posterior to the ethmoid bone in the orbit?
The sphenoid
What is the name of the bone that makes up most of the temple?
The temporal bone
Which bone is not a paired bone of the skull?
Vomer