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Ch 3 - 1st half-Skeletal system

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2. What is the general term for any type of bony prominence?   show
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3. What is the general term for a relatively large convex bone prominence that is usually involved in joints?   show
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show head  
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5. What is the general term for a large, often rough prominence on bone that usually serves as an attachment for muscles or tendons?   show
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6. What is the general term for a bone that is shaped like a bridge, with a bowlike outline?   show
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show cornu  
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8. What two general terms can be used to describe a rounded elevation on the bony surface?   show
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show crest  
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show line  
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11. What is a general term for an abrupt prominence on bone that may be blunt or sharply pointed?   show
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12. Name four types of bony depressions and state which one is generally considered deeper (include their plural forms)   show
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13. What is a general term for an indentation at the edge of the bone?   show
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14. What is a shallow depression or groove on bone that usually marks the course of a blood vessel?   show
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15. Name six types of bony openings   show
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16. What is the term for a short, windowlike opening in the bone?   show
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17. What is the term for a longer, narrow, tubelike opening in the bone?   show
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show meatus  
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show fissure  
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20. Which bone opening is small and also serves as an entrance into a hollow organ or canal?   show
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show aperture  
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22. What is the area of the skeleton where bones are joined to each other?   show
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23. What is the term for a union of bones joined by fibrous tissue?   show
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24. How many bones make up the skull of the patient (not counting the small bones of the middle ear)?   show
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25. How are the bones of the skull divided?   show
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show *lacrimal *nasal *vomer *inferior nasal conchae *zygomatic *maxillary *mandible *palatine bones  
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27. What 4 bones are visible from the superior view of the skull?   show
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show 1 coronal suture *frontal & parietal bones 2 sagital suture *parietal bones 3 lambdoidal suture *occipital & parietal bones  
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29. What bones are visible from the anterior view of the skull?   show
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show *super.–the orbital plate of the frontal bone *med.–ethmoid bone (post) & lacrimal bone (ant) *inferior–the orbital surface of the maxilla *lat–zygomatic bone (anteriorly) *the orbital surface of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone (posteriorly)  
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show *the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone (the base) *the palatine bone  
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show optic canal *transmits the optic nerve, & the ophthalmic artery  
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33. Describe the superior orbital fissure and its location, as well as what passes through it.   show
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show between the greater wing of the sphenoid bone & maxilla *connects the orbit with the infratemporal & pterygopalatine fossae *transmits the infraorbital & zygomatic nerves, the infraorbital artery & the inferior ophthalmic vein  
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35. What is the anterior opening of the nasal cavity?   show
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show frontal & nasal bones  
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show paired nasal bones  
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show maxillae  
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39. What are the three projecting structures that create the lateral walls of the nasal cavity? Which extend inward from the maxilla?   show
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40. What is the term for the groove beneath each nasal conchae? What is the function of their openings?   show
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show *nasal septum *formed by both the nasal septal cartilage and the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone and the vomer  
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show two parallel ridges on the lateral external surface of the skull *superior temporal line and *inferior temporal line which is the boundary of the temporal fossa where the fan-shaped temporalis muscle attaches  
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show *occipital *frontal *parietal *temporal *sphenoid *ethmoid  
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show *coronal suture *lambdoidal suture *squamosal suture  
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show *temporal fossa *infratemporal fossa *pterygopalatine fossa  
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46. What is the term for the cheek bone area? What suture is located on it? Which bones make up this area?   show
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47. The temporomandibular joint is an articulation between what?   show
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show *maxillary *zygomatic *vomer *temporal *sphenoid *occipital *palatine bones  
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49. What is the hard palate formed by?   show
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50. What sutures are located on the hard palate?   show
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51. What is located on the posterior border of the hard palate? What bones form these structures?   show
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show *pterygoid canal *open to the pterygopalatine fossa *carry the pterygoid nerve & blood vessels  
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53. What are the lateral borders of the posterior nasal apertures formed on each side by?   show
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show *medial ptergoid plate, with the hamulus *lateral pterygoid plate  
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show pterygoid fossa  
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show hamulus  
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57. What is the larger anterior oval opening on the sphenoid bone?   show
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58. What is the smaller and more posterior opening on the sphenoid bone?   show
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59. What is the large, irregularly shaped, cartilage-filled opening on the external surface of the skull?   show
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show carotid canal  
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61. What opening is immediately posterior to the more posterior opening in the petrous portion of the temporal bone?   show
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show jugular foramen  
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show *foramen magnum *occipital bone  
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64. What is the a foramen in front of each condyle of the occipital bone?   show
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show *frontal *ethmoid *sphenoid *temporal *occipital *parietal bones  
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66. Name the foramina of the internal skull surface.   show
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