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Skull

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How many bones make up the cranium?   show
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How many bones make up the skull?   show
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show Protect the Brain  
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What are the fibrous joints in the skull called?   show
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show Coronal  
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Which suture is found in between the 2 parietal bones?   show
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Which suture is found in between the temporal bone and the parietal bone?   show
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show Lambdoidal  
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Which bones in the skull contain air sinuses?   show
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Which bone in the skull has condyles that articulate with the Atlas of the Cervical spine?   show
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Which bone in the skull are the zygomatic arches part of?   show
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What are the incomplete ossifications of the skull named?   show
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show Temporal  
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Which canal allows for the transmission of the optic nerve and the ophthalmic artery?   show
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The vestibulocochlear organ is the organ of what?   show
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show Temporal bone  
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show Temporal  
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The tempanic membrane, the auditory tube, the auditory ossicles(malleus, incus, stapes) are part of what portion of the ear?   show
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show Hyoid Bone  
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show Inner  
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show Frontal bone  
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show Maxilla  
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Which skull type is considered Average?   show
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show Dolichocephalic  
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show Brachycephalic  
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In a typically shaped head, the Petrous pyramids project anteriorly and medially at what angle?   show
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The Nasion is part of what bone of the skull?   show
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show Petrous Portion(Pyramid)  
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The sella turcica is U shaped and contains what gland?   show
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Where is the CR placed for a lateral view of the skull?   show
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show MSP  
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What parts of the skull should be superimposed on the lateral projection?   show
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When doing an AP Caldwell projection, the CR will be directed in what way, and at what degree of angle?   show
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show OML  
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What is the secondary line to be used for the Townes projection if the patient can not flex their neck enough?   show
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What is the degree of angle for the Townes method if the OML is used?   show
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show 37 degrees  
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Where is the CR directed on a Townes projection?   show
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show The Dorsum Sellae and the Posterior Clinoid Processes  
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show Rhese Method  
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Which line is perpendicular to the IR when doing a Rhese view of the orbits?   show
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In a Rhese view, the MSP forms a ______ degree angle to the plane of the IR.   show
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What 3 parts are touching the IR on a Rhese view? Also known as a 3 point landing!   show
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Where is the CR directed for the Rhese view?   show
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What bones are part of the Calvaria?   show
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show Ethmoid, Sphenoid, Temporal  
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show Foramen Ovale, Spinosum, Rotundum, and Optic  
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The deep depression that is U-Shaped in the Sphenoid bone is called?   show
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When positioning for a Caldwell projection, what parts of the patients face will touch the IR?   show
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Which projection are used to visualize the Petromastoid Portion(Mastoids)?   show
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The posterior portion of the skull that forms the base of the skull is named?   show
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show The Medulla Oblongata and Spinal Cord  
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At the base of the Temporal bone, there is an opening that allows the Internal Carotid Artery to pass through. What is this foramen called?   show
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show CR Exits the Nasion at a 15 degree angle Caudad  
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What line is Perpendicular to the IR on the PA Caldwell?   show
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When doing a PA Skull, where is the CR directed and at what angle?   show
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show In the lower lateral 1/3 corner of the orbit  
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Which orbit is being visualized when doing the Rhese projection?   show
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show Temporal bone  
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show 14  
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What is the name of the junction between the Lambdoidal and Sagittal sutures?   show
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show Bregma  
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