PAS 407 - Skull and Face Exam Questions with Correct Answers
What skull bone does the middle meninge artery run along? - Answers pterion bone
What bone forms the forehead? - Answers Frontal bone
What bone forms the dome of the head? - Answers Parietal bone
What separates the parietal and frontal bones? - Answers coronal suture
What separates the bilateral parietal bones? - Answers sagittal suture
What separates the parietal and temporal bones? - Answers squamosal suture
What bone is the intersection of the skull bones? - Answers Pterion bone
What are the 3 processes of the temporal bone? - Answers Mastoid, styloid, and zygomatic
What separates the parietal and temporal bones from the occipital bone? - Answers lambdoid suture
What makes up the back of the skull? - Answers Occipital bone
What is the main muscle attachment landmark on the occipital bone? - Answers occipital protuberance
Where does the atlas articulate at? - Answers occipital condyles
What does the maxilla fuse with anteriorly? - Answers nasal cavity
What foramen is found in the maxilla? - Answers Infraorbital foramen
What foramen is found in the mandible? - Answers mental foramen
What bones create the surface cheek structures? - Answers zygomatic bones
What bones create the bridge of the nose? - Answers nasal bones
What bone splits the nasal septum? - Answers vomer bone
What bony landmark carries the pituitary gland? - Answers sella turcica
What bone is the sella turcica found in? - Answers Sphenoid bone
What shape is the sphenoid bone seen as? - Answers A butterfly shape
What barriers do the palatine bones create? - Answers lateral wall of nasal cavity and the posterior
aspect of the hard palate
What bone is the cribriform plate found in? - Answers Ethmoid bone
What are the structures of the scalp? - Answers "SCALP"
What skull bone does the middle meninge artery run along? - Answers pterion bone
What bone forms the forehead? - Answers Frontal bone
What bone forms the dome of the head? - Answers Parietal bone
What separates the parietal and frontal bones? - Answers coronal suture
What separates the bilateral parietal bones? - Answers sagittal suture
What separates the parietal and temporal bones? - Answers squamosal suture
What bone is the intersection of the skull bones? - Answers Pterion bone
What are the 3 processes of the temporal bone? - Answers Mastoid, styloid, and zygomatic
What separates the parietal and temporal bones from the occipital bone? - Answers lambdoid suture
What makes up the back of the skull? - Answers Occipital bone
What is the main muscle attachment landmark on the occipital bone? - Answers occipital protuberance
Where does the atlas articulate at? - Answers occipital condyles
What does the maxilla fuse with anteriorly? - Answers nasal cavity
What foramen is found in the maxilla? - Answers Infraorbital foramen
What foramen is found in the mandible? - Answers mental foramen
What bones create the surface cheek structures? - Answers zygomatic bones
What bones create the bridge of the nose? - Answers nasal bones
What bone splits the nasal septum? - Answers vomer bone
What bony landmark carries the pituitary gland? - Answers sella turcica
What bone is the sella turcica found in? - Answers Sphenoid bone
What shape is the sphenoid bone seen as? - Answers A butterfly shape
What barriers do the palatine bones create? - Answers lateral wall of nasal cavity and the posterior
aspect of the hard palate
What bone is the cribriform plate found in? - Answers Ethmoid bone
What are the structures of the scalp? - Answers "SCALP"
