Whole Skull
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| Calotte | top part of neurocranium (usually cut away to reveal endocranium)
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| Calvarium (neurocranium) | cranium without the face (braincase)
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| Face (splanchnocranium) | facial skeleton
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| Orbits | eye sockets
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| Anterior nasal aperture (piriform aperture) | the hole between and below the orbits (nose hole)
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| Posterior nasal aperture | in back of throat?
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| Zygomatic arch | thin, bony bridges at the sides of the skull
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| Temporal fossa | holes in temporal lobe (big holes behind the zygomatic arch)muscle for chewing basses through here to attach to mandible
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| External auditory meatus | ear holes
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| Mastoid process | attachment side for many muscles of headprojection next to external auditory meatus
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| Coronal suture | “crown” suture
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| Frontal eminences (frontal tubers, bosses) | bumps on frontal lobe
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| Sagittal suture | looks like arrowsuture which divides parietal bones
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| Parietal eminences (parietal tubers, bosses) | where bone began to ossify on parietal bones
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| Squamosal suture | “plate”unlike other suturesno interdigitationbeveled edge
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| Lambdoidal suture | suture at back between parietal and occipital
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| Lambdoidal ossicle (Wormian bone) | wormian bones are irregular ossicles occurring along sutures
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| Foramen lacerum | “lacy” marginnot true foramenformed by architecture of occipital, sphenoid, temporal bone
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| Foramen magnum | large oval hole in the base of the skull
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| Anterior cranial fossa | front fossa on endocranial surface of skull (looking into skull)
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| Middle cranial fossa | middle fossa on endocranial surface of skull (looking into skull)
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| Posterior cranial fossa | back fossa on endocranial surface of skull (looking into skull)
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| Sinuses (frontal, ethmoidal, maxillary, sphenoidal) | look for these sinuses
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