Axial Skeleton (cranium)

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1. Cranium 5. temporal lobe

the portion of the skull that encloses the brain hearing

2. frontal 6. mastoid process

lobe

The lobe at the front of the brain associated with

movement, speech, and impulsive behavior.
3. frontal
sinus 7. zygomatic process

cavity within the frontal bone

4. parietal 8. styloid process
lobe

portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the top of the

head and toward the rear; receives sensory input for
touch and body position
9. mandibular 15. occipital
fossa condyles

Rounded projections lateral to the foramen

magnum that articulate with the first cervical
vertebra (atlas)
the depression in the temporal bone into 16. sphenoid
which the condyle of the mandible fits bone
10. external ear canal
auditory
meatus
11. internal Passageway for nerves and vessels that
auditory supply the ear.
meatus
12. ear ossicles malleus, incus, stapes
13. occipital lobe Bone that joins all of the bones of the cranium
together
17. sphenoid
sinus

visual processing
14. foramen
magnum

sinus above and behind the nose

18. lesser wing
(of sphenoid
bone)

opening of the occipital bone through which

the spinal cord passes
19. greater wing (of 23. superior
sphenoid bone) orbital
fissure

24. ethmoid
bone

20. sella turcica (of

sphenoid bone)

25. ethmoid
houses the pituitary gland sinus

21. optic foramen

Mucosa lined air spaces located above the

Sphenoid Sinus and below the frontal sinus.
22. inferior orbital
26. cribriform
fissure
plate

The horizontal plate of the ethmoid bone

separating the cranial cavity from the nasal
cavity.
27. crista galli 32. sagittal suture

28. olfactory
foramina

between the two parietal bones

33. squamosal
suture

holes in cribriform plate

29. Conchae

between parietal bone and temporal bone

on side of the skull, bordered in back by
occipital bone
34. lamboidal
suture

Fleshy lobes in the nasal cavity which

increase its surface area
30. Sutures Areas where the cranial bones have joined
between parietal and occipital
together
35. anterior
31. coronal
fontanel (of
suture
infant skull)

the suture between the parietal and frontal

bones of the skull
36. posterior fontanel

back of head
37. anterolateral fontanel

38. posterolateral fontanel

39. Fontanel Soft spot in the skull where membranes cover the space between bones