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Skull
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many bones are in the skull? | 22 bones, 8 cranial and 14 facial |
| Which bones form the calvaria? | Frontal, occipital and the right and left parietal |
| What bones form the base of the skull? | Ethmoid and sphenoid |
| The squamosal suture separates which bones? | Temporal and parietal |
| The frontal and the parietal bones are separated by which suture? | The coronal suture |
| The lambdoidal suture separates which bones? | The parietal and the occipital |
| What is the average shaped skull called? | Mesocephalic |
| What is the most common positioning skull base line? | Orbitalmeatal line (OML) aka canthomeatal line aka radiographic base line |
| What base line goes through the orbits? | interpupillary line aka infra orbital aka Reids baseline |
| What is the base line that goes from the external auditory meatus to the acanthion | Acanthiomeatal line |
| What is the orbitomeatal or canthomeatal line? | An imaginary line drawn from the external auditory meatus to the outer canthus of the eye |
| This line goes from the external auditory meatus to the glabella | superorbital meatal or glabellomeatal line |