LRA 225 COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● What are the only unpaired facial bones?
Answer: Vomer and mandible
●● What are the largest immovable bones of the face?
Answer: The 2 maxillae
●● What is the only facial bone larger than the maxilla?
Answer: The mandible
●● What are the most important bones of the face structurally? They
articulate with every facial bone besides the mandible.
Answer: The maxillae
●● The ___________ assists in the formation of the mouth cavity, the
nasal cavity, and one orbit (each) cavity.
Answer: Maxilla
●● The body of each maxillary bone contains a large air filter cavity
known as the:
,Answer: Maxillary sinus
●● What are the 4 processes of the maxilla?
Answer: Frontal process, zygomatic process, alveolar process, and
palatine process
●● __________ process: projects upward along lateral border of nose
towards the frontal bone
Answer: Frontal process
●● _____________ process: projects laterally and unites with zygom
Answer: Zygomatic process
●● ____________ process: inferior aspect of the body of the maxilla.
Eight upper teeth occur at inferior margin of each of these processes
Answer: Alveolar process
●● The upper part of the union of the maxillae.
Answer: Anterior nasal spine
●● The point at the superior aspect of the nasal spine is the:
Answer: Acanthion
, ●● The two ___________ processes form the interior portion of the roof
of the mouth, which is called the card or bony palate.
Answer: Palatine processes
●● The ____________ portion of the palatine bones forms the
____________ part of the hard palate.
Answer: Horizontal; posterior
●● _____________ ___________: Two small inferior portions of the
sphenoid bone
Answer: Pterygoid hamuli
●● What bone is also called the malar bone?
Answer: Zygomatic bone
●● The _____________ ______ forms the prominent part of cheeks and
makes up the lower outer portion of orbits.
Answer: Zygomatic bone
●● Protecting posteriorly from the zygoma is a slender process that
connects with the zygomatic process of each temporal bone to form the
_____________ ______.
Answer: Zygomatic arch
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● What are the only unpaired facial bones?
Answer: Vomer and mandible
●● What are the largest immovable bones of the face?
Answer: The 2 maxillae
●● What is the only facial bone larger than the maxilla?
Answer: The mandible
●● What are the most important bones of the face structurally? They
articulate with every facial bone besides the mandible.
Answer: The maxillae
●● The ___________ assists in the formation of the mouth cavity, the
nasal cavity, and one orbit (each) cavity.
Answer: Maxilla
●● The body of each maxillary bone contains a large air filter cavity
known as the:
,Answer: Maxillary sinus
●● What are the 4 processes of the maxilla?
Answer: Frontal process, zygomatic process, alveolar process, and
palatine process
●● __________ process: projects upward along lateral border of nose
towards the frontal bone
Answer: Frontal process
●● _____________ process: projects laterally and unites with zygom
Answer: Zygomatic process
●● ____________ process: inferior aspect of the body of the maxilla.
Eight upper teeth occur at inferior margin of each of these processes
Answer: Alveolar process
●● The upper part of the union of the maxillae.
Answer: Anterior nasal spine
●● The point at the superior aspect of the nasal spine is the:
Answer: Acanthion
, ●● The two ___________ processes form the interior portion of the roof
of the mouth, which is called the card or bony palate.
Answer: Palatine processes
●● The ____________ portion of the palatine bones forms the
____________ part of the hard palate.
Answer: Horizontal; posterior
●● _____________ ___________: Two small inferior portions of the
sphenoid bone
Answer: Pterygoid hamuli
●● What bone is also called the malar bone?
Answer: Zygomatic bone
●● The _____________ ______ forms the prominent part of cheeks and
makes up the lower outer portion of orbits.
Answer: Zygomatic bone
●● Protecting posteriorly from the zygoma is a slender process that
connects with the zygomatic process of each temporal bone to form the
_____________ ______.
Answer: Zygomatic arch
