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Geisler skull and cranial fossa lc4
lecture 4
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Medical
Graduate
11/27/2011

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Term
neurocranial and visceral cranial
Definition
neurocranial is the head skull, visceral cranial is the facial skull
Term

Intermembranous

endochondal

 

Definition

intermembranous-->connective sheath

endochondral-->template made of cartilage

 

Term
synchondroses
Definition

Bone-cartilage-bone (more flexibility than bone but restricted)- suture

Cartilaginous joints between ossification centers.

Term
order of ossification
Definition
  1. visverocranium: maxilla and mandible
  2. intramembranous bone of the neurocanium
  3. endochondral bone of neurocranium
Term
craniosynostosis
Definition

early closure of suture. Brain will grow in area that it can grow (where suture is not yet closed)

 

early closure of coronal suture will cause parietal plate to grow superiorly.

Term

type of craniosynostosis

 

Turricephaly or oxycephaly

Definition
towered skull-due to early fusion of coronal suture. anteroposterior growths is limited.
Term

type of craniosynostosis

Scaphocephaly

Definition

close off of sagital suture/ brain expand anteriorly/posteriorly (transverse expansion is closed off)

 

Term

type of craniosynostosis

plagiocephaly

Definition
closing is not happening at the same time. half of coronal suture fused while the other has not.
Term
dura in skull
Definition

has two layers:

meningeal layer continues with spinal core. periosteal layer close to bone continues with periosteum outside.

Term
falx cerebri
Definition
seperate the right cebreal hemisphere from the left.
Term
venous sinuses of the skull
Definition
vein runs inside dura matter, drain blood out of the brain into internal jugular vein
Term
Subdural hematoma
Definition

cerebral vein leaks between dura and arachnoid (blood accumulate below ura mater and above arachanoid)

 

Term
epidural (extradural) hematoma
Definition
blood from ruptured meningeal artery accumulates between endocranial layer of dura and bone. can quickly compress brain
Term
subarachnoid hemorrhage
Definition
Bleeding of cerebral ateries into subarachanoid space. caused by aneurysm, can be detected in CSF, hard to see in CT.
Term
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Definition
Le Fort I fracture: comes from the base of maxilla.
Term
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Definition
Le fort II fracture: exploiting frontal nasal sulture. fracture along frontal nasal suture.
Term
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Definition
Le Fort III fracture
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