ASM 275 CORE EXAM SET 2025/2026 ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Sex - Male Cranium - ✔✔Cranium:
Mandible Shape- Square
Supraorbital Torus- Rough/Protrudes
Occipital Roughness- Rougher
Temporal Line- Not as Prominent
✔✔Sex - Dorsal Pitting - ✔✔Occurs when female carries baby to the third trimester
✔✔Arthritis - ✔✔Deterioration of cartilage. Can happen anywhere you have joints. The
bones hitting each other are what cause this osteo_________ activity.
✔✔Osteoporosis - ✔✔Makes the inside of bone porus, creates lip on outside of bone to
balance out.
✔✔Scurvy - ✔✔Lack of Vitamin C that causes you to lose your teeth.
✔✔Rickets - ✔✔Lack of Vitamin D that causes your bones to get spongy and bend.
Happens in long bones.
✔✔Cancer - ✔✔Can take away bone, but can also build up bone. Rapid cell growth that
takes over and deteriorates the bone.
✔✔Fracture - ✔✔A break in the bone.
✔✔Spondylolysis - ✔✔When two or more bones meet and fuse.
✔✔TB (Tuberculosis) - ✔✔A respiratory infection that makes bones porus in the ribs,
sternum, and thoracic vertebrae.
✔✔Syphilis - ✔✔STD that will eat its way out of your brain creating stellate scars.
✔✔Ankyloses - ✔✔Tibia and Fibula fusing together to create a Fibia or a Tibula
✔✔Cribra Orbitalia - ✔✔Lack of iron causing the upper part of the eye orbit to become
porus.
✔✔Trephination - ✔✔Intentional removing of the crania.
✔✔Ossification - ✔✔Cartilage that turns to bone. Creates sutures that go away with
age.
, ✔✔Age - suture closure - Speno-Occipital Synchondrosis - ✔✔Last suture to fully close,
occurs at 80.
✔✔Identifying Remains - ✔✔1. sex
2. age
3. stature
4. ancestry (biological)
✔✔Age - Bones To Be Examined To Determine Age - ✔✔1. skull
2. long bones
3. teeth
✔✔Age - Suture Closure - Sagittal - ✔✔closed by 35 years
✔✔Age - Clavicle - ✔✔last bone to fuse/close (between 23-28 years)
✔✔Age - Wisdom Teeth - ✔✔Last permanent teeth to come in (3rd molars) between 17-
21
✔✔Sex - Male Pelvis - ✔✔- sub pubic angle: <90 degrees
- narrow pelvic outlet
- triangular shaped pubic symphysis & heart shaped pelvic cavaty
✔✔Sex - Female Pelvis - ✔✔- sub pubic angle: >90 degrees
- wider pelvic outlet
- rectangular shaped pubic symphysis
- trauma can occur during childbirth
✔✔Sex - Male Skull - ✔✔- larger cranium
- larger mandible
- larger mastoid
- larger nuchal crest
- sloping frontal bone
- square chin
- 90 degree jaw angle
- wide zygomatic arch
- less circular eye orbits
✔✔Sex - Female Skull - ✔✔- smaller cranium
- smaller mandible
- smaller mastoid
- smaller nuchal crest
- vertical frontal bone
- pointed chin
- >90 degree jaw angle
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Sex - Male Cranium - ✔✔Cranium:
Mandible Shape- Square
Supraorbital Torus- Rough/Protrudes
Occipital Roughness- Rougher
Temporal Line- Not as Prominent
✔✔Sex - Dorsal Pitting - ✔✔Occurs when female carries baby to the third trimester
✔✔Arthritis - ✔✔Deterioration of cartilage. Can happen anywhere you have joints. The
bones hitting each other are what cause this osteo_________ activity.
✔✔Osteoporosis - ✔✔Makes the inside of bone porus, creates lip on outside of bone to
balance out.
✔✔Scurvy - ✔✔Lack of Vitamin C that causes you to lose your teeth.
✔✔Rickets - ✔✔Lack of Vitamin D that causes your bones to get spongy and bend.
Happens in long bones.
✔✔Cancer - ✔✔Can take away bone, but can also build up bone. Rapid cell growth that
takes over and deteriorates the bone.
✔✔Fracture - ✔✔A break in the bone.
✔✔Spondylolysis - ✔✔When two or more bones meet and fuse.
✔✔TB (Tuberculosis) - ✔✔A respiratory infection that makes bones porus in the ribs,
sternum, and thoracic vertebrae.
✔✔Syphilis - ✔✔STD that will eat its way out of your brain creating stellate scars.
✔✔Ankyloses - ✔✔Tibia and Fibula fusing together to create a Fibia or a Tibula
✔✔Cribra Orbitalia - ✔✔Lack of iron causing the upper part of the eye orbit to become
porus.
✔✔Trephination - ✔✔Intentional removing of the crania.
✔✔Ossification - ✔✔Cartilage that turns to bone. Creates sutures that go away with
age.
, ✔✔Age - suture closure - Speno-Occipital Synchondrosis - ✔✔Last suture to fully close,
occurs at 80.
✔✔Identifying Remains - ✔✔1. sex
2. age
3. stature
4. ancestry (biological)
✔✔Age - Bones To Be Examined To Determine Age - ✔✔1. skull
2. long bones
3. teeth
✔✔Age - Suture Closure - Sagittal - ✔✔closed by 35 years
✔✔Age - Clavicle - ✔✔last bone to fuse/close (between 23-28 years)
✔✔Age - Wisdom Teeth - ✔✔Last permanent teeth to come in (3rd molars) between 17-
21
✔✔Sex - Male Pelvis - ✔✔- sub pubic angle: <90 degrees
- narrow pelvic outlet
- triangular shaped pubic symphysis & heart shaped pelvic cavaty
✔✔Sex - Female Pelvis - ✔✔- sub pubic angle: >90 degrees
- wider pelvic outlet
- rectangular shaped pubic symphysis
- trauma can occur during childbirth
✔✔Sex - Male Skull - ✔✔- larger cranium
- larger mandible
- larger mastoid
- larger nuchal crest
- sloping frontal bone
- square chin
- 90 degree jaw angle
- wide zygomatic arch
- less circular eye orbits
✔✔Sex - Female Skull - ✔✔- smaller cranium
- smaller mandible
- smaller mastoid
- smaller nuchal crest
- vertical frontal bone
- pointed chin
- >90 degree jaw angle
