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Bones of Skull

Fahim Haider Jafari PhD

Skull

It is the skeleton of the head Divided into two types of bones Eight cranial bones for enclosing the brain Fourteen facial bones Cranium is skull without mandible Calvaria is the skull cap

Cranium
Unpaired: Frontal Occipital Sphenoid Ethmoid Paired: Parietal Temporal

Facial Bones
Paired: Zygomatic Maxillae Nasal Palatine Inferior turbinate Lacrimal Unpaired: Vomer Mandible

Views of Skull
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Anterior View Posterior view Superior view Inferior view Lateral view

Anterior View
Frontal bone Nasal bone Maxillae Zygomatic Mandible

Posterior View
Parietal bones Occipital bone Temporal bone

Superior View
Frontal bone Parietal bone Occipital bone

Inferior View

Inferior View

Lateral View
Frontal bone Parietal bone Occipital bone Temporal bone Spheniod bone

Sutures of the Skull


These are immovable fibrous joints between the bones of the skull Coronal suture: lies between frontal and two parietal bones Sagittal suture: lies between two parietal bones Squamous suture: lies between parietal bone and squamous part of temporal bone Lambdoid suture: lies between two parietal bones and the occipital bone

Junctions of the Cranial Sutures

Lambda: intersection of the lambdoid and sagittal sutures Bregma: intersection of the sagittal and coronal sutures Pterion: junction of frontal, parietal, temporal bones and greater wing of sphenoid bone

Junctions of the Cranial Sutures

Asterion: junction of the parietal, occipital and temporal bones Nasion: a point on the middle of the nasofrontal suture (intersection of the frontal and two nasal bones Inion: most prominent point on the external occipital protuberance

Cranial Cavity

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