Bontrager Chapter 11 Workbook and self test
practice questions and answers (100% pass)
Which one of the following bones is not part of the floor of the cranium...
A. Temporal..
B. Ethmoid...
C. Occipital...
D. Sphenoid - Answer✔️✔️-Occipital
Which aspect of the frontal bone is thin-walled and forms the forehead -
Answer✔️✔️-squamous
What four cranial bones articulate with the frontal bone - Answer✔️✔️-right
parietal, left parietal, sphenoid, and ethmoid
Which structures are found at the widest aspect of the skull - Answer✔️✔️-
parietal tubercles of two parietal bones
What is the name of a prominent landmark (or bump) found on the
external surface of the occipital bone - Answer✔️✔️-external occipital
protuberance (inion)
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List the number of individual bones that articulate with the following
cranial bones...
Parietal bone...
Occipital bone...
Temporal bone..
Sphenoid...and
Ethmoid - Answer✔️✔️-5 for parietal..
6 for occipital..
3 for temporal..
7 for sphenoid..and
2 for ethmoid
What is the thickest and densest structure in the cranium - Answer✔️✔️-
petrous portion
True or False: The hypophysis is another term for the pituitary gland -
Answer✔️✔️-True, hypophysis cerebri
True or False: The sphenoid bone articulates with all the other cranial
bones - Answer✔️✔️-true
The shallow depression just posterior to the base of the dorsum sellae and
anterior to the foramen magnum is the - Answer✔️✔️-clivus
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Which small section of the bone is located superior to the cribiform plate -
Answer✔️✔️-crista galli
What is the formal term for the left sphenoid fontanel in the adult -
Answer✔️✔️-left pterion
What is the name of the cranial suture formed by the inferior junction of
the parietals to the temporal bones - Answer✔️✔️-squamosal suture
What are the two terms for the small, irregular bones found in the adult
skull sutures - Answer✔️✔️-sutral, or wormian
These following bones are within what structure....
pterygoid hamulus, anterior clinoid processes, foramen ovale, and sella
turcica - Answer✔️✔️-sphenoid
These following bones are within what structure....
glabella and supercilliary arch - Answer✔️✔️-frontal
These following bones are within what structure....
perpendicular plate, superior nasal conchae, and cribiform plate -
Answer✔️✔️-ethmoid
These following bones are within what structure....
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