Anatomy Final Exam 9th Edition Study Guide Exam

Anatomy Final Exam 9th Edition Study Guide Exam Modified hinge joint What type of joint is the temporomandibular joint? TMJ syndrome the jaw is not articulating properly causing clicking, pain, headaches. Condyle is out of place. Middle meningeal artery (MMA) What's dangerous under the pterion? (goes through the spinosum) Africans Which race has the largest maxilla? Palatine bone and Maxilla Which bones make up the hard palette? Frontal, Parietal, sphenoid, and temporal Which bones make up the Pterion? Bregma The anterior fontanelle closes to become what? Lambda The posterior fontanelle closes to become what? dehydration, age, pulse, and intercranial pressure What are the four types of info that can be learned from fontanelles? hydrocephalus CSF accumulates and exerts pressure on the brain if not allowed to drain. Excess fluid in the cranial cavity. can happen in adult brains, causing the brain to shrink from pressure and additional space is filled with CSF sella turcica Where is the pituitary gland housed? maxillary nerve What goes through foramen rotundum and provides sense of touch to the upper lip? mandibular nerve What goes through the foramen ovale and provides sense of touch to the lower lip? olfactory nerves What sits in the cribriform plate? epidural hematoma Most common with ARTERIES, superficial to the dura (in between the dura mater and skull) can put intracranial pressure on the head if severe enough Myelin fatty coating that allows message to jump over synapses. white matter What type of matter is myelinated? Aneurysm weak vessel causes a bulge in the arterial wall. When the bulge bursts, it becomes a stroke. Subdural hematoma VEIN ruptures and bleeds in the cranial cavity, deep to the duramater in the subdural space (between the dura and the arachnoid layer) covering the brain itself subarachnoid hemmorrhage arterial- active and under pressure bleeding spilling into the subarachnoid space. Caused by cranial fractures choroid plexus of the lateral ventricles