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| What are the largest immovable bones in the face? |
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| What is the largest moveable facial bone? |
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| What cavities do the maxilla assist in forming? |
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| the mouth, nasal cavity, and orbits |
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| What projects laterally from the maxillae to join with the zygoma |
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| What lies above the union of the maxillae at midline? |
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| What is the landmark where the nose and the upper teeth meet? |
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| What supports the upper teeth? |
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| What does the body of the maxillae contain? |
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| What can only be demonstrated by an inferior view of the two maxillae |
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| What is the anterior portion of the roof of the mouth termed as |
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| an opening between the bony palate |
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| an opening between the bony palate |
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| What bones are also known as malar bones |
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| What is the delicate structure that can be fractured due to a blow to the cheek? |
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| What are the thinnest and most fragile bones of the body |
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| what bones are associated with the tear ducts |
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| What forms the bridge of the nose |
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| What is the junction of the two nasal bones with the frontal bone termed as |
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| What two bones project from the lateral walls of the nasal cavity and extend medially |
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| the inferior nasal conchae |
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| What purpose do the nasal conchae serve? |
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| to divide the nasal cavity into compartments and to warm and clean the air |
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| What bone ar the superior and middle conchae a part of |
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| What bones form the nasal septum? |
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| the vomer and the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid |
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| At what age does the mandbile fuse to form a single bone? |
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| What is the name of the area where the mandible unites? |
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| What is the name for the upper portion of the ramus of the mandible? |
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| What is the name of the process at the anterior part of the mandible |
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| What is the name of the posterior part of the mandibular notch? |
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| What unites to form the TMJ |
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| the condyloid process of the mandible and the tempromandibular fossa |
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| What is the only moveable joint in the skull |
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| What type of joint is the TMJ |
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| What type of joint are the alveoli and roots of the teeth |
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