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Skull, Face & Neck

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What is the top of the skull called?   Calvaria  
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What is the posterior side of the skull called? Base opening? Pointy process?   Occipital portion, Foramen magnum, Styloid process  
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Describe a newborn's skull   Babies are all calvaria  
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What is the front of the babies head called?   Viscerocranium because there are soft structures that this portion of the skull is surrounding  
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What type of ossification takes place in the neurocranium?   Intramembranous ossification  
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What is the top soft spot of the babies head called?   Fontanelles  
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Describe the occipital bone   Sweeps under the skull but does not go in. Lambdoid suture in the back. The bump on the back is called the external occipital proturbenance  
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Describe the temporal bone   Bump in back called mastoid process. Big muscle attached called sternocleidomastoid. The hole for ear=pinna. Stylomastoid foramen. Styloid process is part of temporal bone.  
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Name more parts of the temporal bone   Part of cheek bone, zygomatic process, superior and inferior temporal lines, temporal fossa. Temporalis muscle that is covered with temporalis fascia  
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What kind of muscles are in the infratemporal fossa?   Chewing muscles  
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What fissure is in the right orbit?   Superior orbital fissure and next to it is the optical canal. Inferior orbital fissure that doesn't go inside of skull but below into pteygopalatine  
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What bone is paper thin and often subject to injury?   Ethmoid bone  
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What depression is in the lacrimal bone?   A depression where the lacrimal sac and there will be an apparatus that removes tears from the eyes  
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Where does the pituitary gland sit?   On the turkish saddle located on the sphenoid bone  
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Name the scalene muscles and attachments   Visceral portion is movable. Musculoskeletal is not.  
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What is located in the visceral portion of the neck?   Common carotid artery, laryngeal prominence, thyroid gland, tracheal rings, some muscles for vocalization  
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What structures does the carotid sheath surround?   Internal jugular vein, common carotid artery and vagus nerve  
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Where do the following muscles attach: Anterior scalene, Posterior Scalene and Middle Scalene?   Anterior: 1st rib and anterior tubercle on the transverse process. Posterior: 2nd rib. Middle: Posterior tubercle and 1st rib  
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What do all of the scalene muscles make up?   Interscalene triangle  
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Name the anterior neck muscles   Platysma: Facial expression. Suprahyoid, Infrahyoid and Strap muscles  
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Name the strap muscles   Omahyoid: Superior and inferior belly. Sternohyoid: pulls hyoid down  
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What infrahyoid muscles are deep to the sternohyoid?   Sternothyroid and thyrohyoid  
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What muscle makes up the floor of the mouth?   Mylohyoid  
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What makes up the anterior triangle of the neck?   Mandible, anterior edge of sternocleidomastoid and midline going straight up  
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What makes up the posterior triangle of the neck?   Posterior of sternocleidomastoid, edge of trapezius and clavicle  
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What makes up the floor of the posterior triangle? Nerves?   Scalenes, splenius and levator scapulae muscle. Brachial plexus, hypoglossal, accessory and phrenic  
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Name the face muscles   Panniculus. Orbicularis oris: Around mouth. Contract=lips pucker. Orbicularis oculi: around eye. Levator labii superioris: upper lip. Risorius: grin. Depressor labii: lower lip  
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Name the glands and ducts on side of face   Parotid gland. Salivary gland. Parotid duct: Deliver saliva into mouth through cheek. Parotid gland grew at end of duct  
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Name the branches of the facial nerve   Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Marginal, Cervical  
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