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Consists of 80 bones
Skull Bones: Cranium & face
Hyoid bone
Auditory ossicles
Vertebral column
Thorax: Sternum & Ribs |
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| Narrow slit between adjacent parts of bones |
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| Dense connective tissue - filled space between skull bones at birth |
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Opening (hole) through which blood vessels, nerves or ligaments pass
Magnus Foramen |
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| a shallow depression in or on a bone |
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| (groove) a furrow or depression that accommodates a soft structure. |
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| A tube-like opening running within a bone. |
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| How many bones does the skull contain? |
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| How many cranial bones are there? |
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| Eight (frontal, two parietal, two temporal, occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid) |
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| External occipital protuberance |
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| prominent midline projection on the posterior surface of the bone |
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middle part of the base of the skull
Keystone bone: articulates with all cranial bones holding them together |
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Light, spongy bone that forms:
part of the anterior portion of the cranial floor
the medial walls of the orbits
the superior portions of the nasal septum
most of the sidewalls of the nasal roof |
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| How many facial bones are there? |
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| There are 14 facial bones |
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| Between the frontal and parietal bones |
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| between the parietal and occipital bone |
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| between the parietal and temporal bones |
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| What is the Hyoid (U shaped) |
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| Unique bone in between the mandible and larynx. Unique in that it does not articulate with any other bone. Suspends from styloid process of temporal bone by ligaments and muscles. Supports the tongue |
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| Thick, disk-shaped anterior weight-bearing portion |
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extends posteriorly from the body. Together with the body, they surround the spinal cord
Formed by pedicles and lamina |
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| space that lies between the vertebral arch and body that contains the spinal cord |
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| How many processes arise from the vertebral arch? |
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Seven.
First three are points of attachment for muscle
Last four form joints with other vertebrae |
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| How many bones in the vertebrae |
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26 bones
7 in cervial
12 in thoracic
5 in lumbar
sacrum (fusion of 5 sacral vertebrae)
coccyx (fusion of four bones) |
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forms strong joints
absorb vertical shock |
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| What are the vertebral curves and their functions? |
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Two Convex (Cervical and Lumbar) form several months after birth
Two concave (Thoracic and sacral) form during fetal development
Increases strength, maintains balance in upright position, absorbs shock during walking, protects from fracture.
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