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Ch 3 - 1st half-Skeletal system

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show plate  
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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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show arch  
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7. What is the general term for a hornlike prominence on a bone?   show
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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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10. What is the general term for a small, straight ridge on bone?   show
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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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show 1. Incisura 2 notch 3sulcus (plural, sulci) 4 fossa (plural, fossae) **generally deeper  
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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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show 1 foramen 2 canal 3 meatus 4 fissure 5 ostium 6 aperture  
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show foramen  
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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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19. What is the term for a narrow, cleft like opening in the bone?   show
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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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show articulation  
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23. What is the term for a union of bones joined by fibrous tissue?   show
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show 22  
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show cranium & facial bones  
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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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28. Name the 3 sutures of the superior view of the skull and what bones they join.   show
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29. What bones are visible from the anterior view of the skull?   show
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30. Name the orbital walls.   show
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31. What is the orbital apex composed of?   show
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32. What is the term for the round opening in the orbital apex? What passes through it?   show
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show *a slit like opening between the greater and lesser wings of the sphenoid bone *connects the orbit with the cranial cavity *transmits the III, IV, VI, ophthalmic nerve, vein  
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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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36. What bones are at the junction formed by the nasion?   show
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37. What bones form the bridge of the nose?   show
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show maxillae  
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show the nasal conchae *superior *middle *inferior  
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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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41. What is the vertical partition of the nasal cavity and what bones form its anterior and posterior portions?   show
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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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43. The lateral view of the skull show all 6 cranial bones. Name them.   show
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44. What sutures are located on the lateral view of the cranium?   show
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45. Name the fossae of the lateral view of the skull.   show
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show *zygomatic arch *formed by the temporal process of the zygomatic bone & zygomatic process of the temporal bone *joined by the temporozygomatic suture  
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show temporal bone and mandible  
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48. What bones are visible from the inferior view of the external surface of the skull?   show
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49. What is the hard palate formed by?   show
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show *median palatine suture *transverse palatine suture  
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show *posterior nasal apertures or choanae *formed by the vomer & the sphenoid bone  
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52. What small canal is located on the superior border of each of the aperture that are located on the posterior border of the palate? What do they open into? Also, what passes through the canal?   show
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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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54. What are the processes and plates of the sphenoid bone?   show
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55. What fossa is located between the plates of the sphenoid bone?   show
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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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show foramen lacerum  
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60. What is the more posterior opening in the petrous portion of the temporal bone?   show
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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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63. What is the largest opening on the inferior view of the skull? In what bone is it located?   show
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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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