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Skull Structure & Markings

Exercises # 13 & 14

Complete pages 91-108 + critical thinking questions

(turn in all of the pages stapled together)

This lab is to allow you to become familiar with the anatomy of the skull.  Look at and label with sticky paper the skull models.  They will be on the practical. 

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  1. Be able identify  the following bone structures

axial

head

line

fossa

appendicular

facet

tubercle

grove

long bones

condyle

spine

notch

sesamoid bones

ramus

process

sinus

short bones

tuberosity

meatus

foramen

flat bones

crest

epicondyle

fissure

irregular bones

trochanter

 

 

 

2.   Be able to identify the following suture lines:

coronal

sagittal

squamous

lambdoid

 

3.  Be able to identify the following bones and structures of the skull which will be on the practical:

cranium

temporal bone

zygomatic process

external auditory (acoustic) meatus

mastoid process 

styloid process

maxillary bone

palatine processes

alveolar processes

infraorbital foreman

maxillary sinuses

orbit

optic canal

superior  fissure

inferior orbital fissures

 

frontal bone

supraorbital foramen

frontonasal suture

glabella

frontal sinuses

anterior cranial fossa

 

zygomatic bones

zygomatic arch

 

nasal bones

 

sphenoid bone

sella turcica depression

sphenoid sinuses

inferior nasal conchae

 

parietal bone

mandible

ramus of the mandible

mandibular angle

mandibular condyle

mandibular notch

mandibular foramen

alveolar border

occipital bone

foramen magnum

occipital condyles

occipital protuberance

posterior cranial fossa

hypoglossal canal

paranasal sinuses

 

ethmoid bone

hyoid bone

 

facial bones

 

 

palatine bones

 

 

lacrimal bones