Lab 6: Pre-Lab Homework

An important role of the vertebral column is protection of the brain, spinal cord, and spinal nerves. True/False

False The vertebral column protects the spinal cord and serves as a passageway for spinal nerves. It does not, however, protect the brain. That is the role of cranial bones.

Label the structures of the bone using the hints provided. (Mandible)

-Coronoid process -Mandibular condyle -Ramus of mandible -body -alveolar process

Label the bones in the superior view of the cranial cavity.

-Frontal bone -Temporal bone -Parietal Bone -Occipital bone -Sphenoid bone -Ethmoid Bone

Label the specific bony features of the skull in posterior view.

-Parietal bone -Sagittal suture -Lambdoid suture -Mastoid process -Mandible

Structures of a typical cervical vertebra

-Spinous process -vertebral arch -lamina -pedicel -transverse process -transverse foramen -body of vertebra -vertebral foramen -articular facet

Label the head and neck bones in lateral view

-brain case -cervical vertebra -orbit -facial bones -hyoid bone

Label the specific bony features of the skull in inferior view

-maxilla -vomer -mastoid process -foramen magnum -palatine -zygomatic -mandibular fossa -petrous (temporal) -occipital condyle

Bones of the skull in lateral view

-parietal bone -zygomatic bone -occipital bone -temporal bone -mandible -maxilla -nasal bone -sphenoid bone -frontal bone

Label the structures of the vertebra.

-spinous process -transverse process -vertebral foramen -vertebral arch -lamina -pedicel -superior articular process -body of vertebra -inferior articular process

Label the structures of a typical vertebra.

-transverse process -superior articular process -spinous process -inferior articular process -body of vertebra

Structures of the vertebra (Atlas)

-transverse process -transverse foramen -vertebral foramen -superior articular facet