How many bones in the human skull - 22
How many cranial bones? - 8
How many facial bones? - 14
Name the 8 cranial bones. - Occipital, Temporal(2), Frontal, Sphenoid, Ethmoid, Parietal(2)
Name the 14 facial bones - Vomer, Nasal (2), Inferior Nasal Conche (2), Lacrimal (2), Zygomatic (2),
Palati...
Characteristics that only appear on a specific bone. - ✔✔Landmarks
An opening for nerves and blood vessels to pass - ✔✔Foramen
This bone forms the back of the head - ✔✔Occiptial
The foramen Magnum is on which cranial bone? - ✔✔Occipital
The mastoid process, styloid process, zygomatic process, and external auditory meatus are landmarks on
what bone? - ✔✔Temporal
This bone forms the forhead and top of the eye - ✔✔Frontal
, This bone forms the upper back side of the skull - ✔✔parietal
This bone is bat shaped and forms the anterior base of the skull - ✔✔Sphenoid
The landmark on this "bat-shapped" bone is called the: - ✔✔Greater wing of the sphenoid
This bone forms the midline of the cranium and is part of the nose. It lies behind the frontal bone
between the eyes. - ✔✔Ethmoid
Bone known as the nasal septum, forms midline of nose. - ✔✔Vomer
These bones form the bridge of the nose. - ✔✔Nasal Bones
These bones form the lateral portion of the nasal septum and are within the boney part of the nose. -
✔✔Inferior Nasal Conchae
Irregular thin plates of bone that form the medial wall of the orbit of the eye. - ✔✔Lacrimal bones
this bone is also known as the Malar bone - ✔✔Zygomatic Bone
This bone forms the cheek bone. - ✔✔Zygomatic
A process is named for where it is going/coming to or from? - ✔✔going to. example: the process on the
zygomatic bone that goes to the temporal bone is called, the Temporal process of the zygomatic bone.
These bones form the most posterior part of the hard palate. - ✔✔Palatine bones
The Greater Palatine Foramen is located on what bone? - ✔✔Palatine.
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