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