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        | suture extending across the skull, between the frontal and parietal bones |  | 
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        | extends from the front to the back of the skull, between paired parietal bones |  | 
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        | Located between occipital bone and paired parietal bones |  | 
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        | composed of the orbital plates of surrounding bones |  | 
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        | Orbital Wall: FRONTAL BONE |  | Definition 
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        | Orbital Wall: ETHMOID BONE |  | Definition 
 
        | greatest portion of medial wall |  | 
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        | Orbital Wall: LACRIMAL BONE |  | Definition 
 
        | anterior medial corner of the orbit |  | 
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        | Orbital Wall: Orbital surfaces of MAXILLA |  | Definition 
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        | Orbital Wall: Zygomatic bone |  | Definition 
 
        | Anterior portion of lateral wall |  | 
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        | Orbital wall: Greater wing on Spehnoid bone |  | Definition 
 
        | posterior portion of lateral wall |  | 
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        | composed of the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone (forming the base) and palatine bone (a small inferior portion) |  | 
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        | What is the opening in the orbital apex? Where does it lie? |  | Definition 
 
        | Optic Canal. Lies between the two roots of the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone |  | 
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        | What optic nerve passes through optic canal to reach the eyeball? |  | Definition 
 
        | Second Cranial Nerve= Optic Nerve |  | 
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        | What artery passes through the canal to reach the eye? |  | Definition 
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        | Where is the Superior orbital fissure located? |  | Definition 
 
        | Lateral to optic canal, between the greater and lesser wings of the sphenoid bone |  | 
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        | What nerves pass through superior orbital fissure? |  | Definition 
 
        | 3rd- oculomotor nerve 4th- Trochlear nerve
 5th- ophthalmic nerve from Trigeminal
 6th- abducent nerve
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        | Where is the inferior orbital fissure located? |  | Definition 
 
        | between the greater wing of the sphenoid bone and the maxilla |  | 
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        | What does the inferior orbital fissure connect? |  | Definition 
 
        | The orbit with the infratemporal and pterygopalatine fossae |  | 
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        | What nerves branch from the inferior orbital fissure? |  | Definition 
 
        | Infraorbital and zygomatic nerves (branches of the maxillary nerve) 5th cranial nerve |  | 
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        | What artery/veins passes through inferior orbital fissure? |  | Definition 
 
        | Infraorbital artery/ophthalmic vein to join the pterygoid plexus of veins |  | 
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        | midpoint landmark, located at the junction of the frontal and nasal bones |  | 
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        | anterior opening of the nasal cavity (large and triangular) |  | 
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        | How is the bridge of the nose formed? |  | Definition 
 
        | formed from the paired nasal bones. |  | 
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        | How are the lateral bounderies of the nasal cavity formed? |  | Definition 
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        | Three projecting structures that extend inward from the maxilla creating the lateral walls of the nasal cavity |  | 
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        | vertical portion of the nasal cavity that divides the nasal cavity into two portions |  | 
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        | What is the anterior portion of the nasal septum formed by? |  | Definition 
 
        | nasal septal cartilage inferiorly and the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone superiorly |  | 
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        | What is the posterior portion of the nasal septum formed by? |  | Definition 
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        | On the lateral external surface of the skull are 2 separate parallel ridges crossing both the frontal and parietal bones. What are their names? |  | Definition 
 
        | Superior ridge- superior temporal line inferior ridge- inferior temporal line
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        | What is the superior boundary of the temporal fossa? What muscle attaches there? |  | Definition 
 
        | Inferior temporal line. Temporalis muscle attaches there. |  | 
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        | Where is the squamosal suture located? |  | Definition 
 
        | Between the temporal and parietal bones |  | 
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        | What is the temporal fossa formed by and what does it contain? |  | Definition 
 
        | Formed by several bones of the skull and contains the body of the temporalis muscle. |  | 
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        | What is inferior to the temporalis fossa? |  | Definition 
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        | What is deeper to the infratemporal fossa, which is also harder to see? |  | Definition 
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        | How is the zygomatic arch formed? |  | Definition 
 
        | By the union of the broad temporal process of the zygomatic bone and the slender zygomatic process of the temporal bone. |  | 
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        | What bones is the temporozygomatic suture located between? |  | Definition 
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        | Zygomatic arch serves as the origin for the masseter muscle |  | Definition 
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        | MOVEABLE articulation between the temporal bone and the mandible |  | 
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        | How is the hard palate formed? |  | Definition 
 
        | Formed by the 2 palatine processes of the maxillae and the two horizontal plates of the palatine bones |  | 
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        | What borders the hard palate? |  | Definition 
 
        | The alveolar process of the maxilla and its maxillary teeth |  | 
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        | What two sutures are present on the hard palate? |  | Definition 
 
        | Median palatine suture and transverse palatine suture. |  | 
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        | How is the median palatine suture formed? |  | Definition 
 
        | It is a midline articulation between the two palatine processes of the maxilla anteriorly, and the two horizontal plates of the palatine bones posteriorly. |  | 
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        | How is the transverse palatine suture formed? |  | Definition 
 
        | It is an articulation between the two palatine processes of the maxillae and the horizontal plates of the palatine bones. |  | 
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        | The hard  palate forms the floor of the nasal cavity, as well as the roof of the mouth. |  | Definition 
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        | The posterior edge of the hard palate forms the inferior border of what structure? |  | Definition 
 
        | Posterior nasal apertures or chonchae |  | 
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        | The superior border of each aperture is formed by which structure? |  | Definition 
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        | Near the superior border of each posterior nasal aperture is what structure? |  | Definition 
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        | The pterygoid canal extends to open into the pterygoplatine fossa. What structure does it cary? |  | Definition 
 
        | Pterygoid nerve and and blood vessels |  | 
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        | The lateral borders of the posterior nasal apertures are formed on each side by what structure? |  | Definition 
 
        | Pterygoid process of sphenoid bone |  | 
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        | Each pterygoid process consists of what structure? |  | Definition 
 
        | Medial pterygoid plate and lateral pterygoid plate |  | 
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        | The depression between the medial and lateral plates is called what? |  | Definition 
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        | inferior portion of the medial plate of the pterygoid process |  | 
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        | larger anterior oval opening on the spenoid bone |  | 
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        | What travels through the foramen ovale? |  | Definition 
 
        | The mandibular division of the 5th cranial nerve or trigeminal nerve. |  | 
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        | smaller and more posterior opening |  | 
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        | What travels through the foramen spinosum? |  | Definition 
 
        | Middle meningeal artery into the cranial cavity |  | 
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        | The large foramen lacerum  is on the external surface of the skull |  | Definition 
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        | What is located posterolateral to the foramen lacerum? |  | Definition 
 
        | Opening in the petrous portion of the temporal bone, the carotid canal |  | 
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        | What does the carotid canal carry? |  | Definition 
 
        | The internal carotid artery and sympathetic carotid plexus. |  | 
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        | lateral and posterior to the carotid canal |  | 
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        | What is posterior to the styloid process? |  | Definition 
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        | What passes through stylomastoid foramen? |  | Definition 
 
        | 7th cranial nerve- Facial nerve exits from the skull to the face |  | 
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        | medial to the styloid process |  | 
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        | What passes through the jugular foramen? |  | Definition 
 
        | Internal jugular vein and 3 cranial nerves. 9th- glosso-pharyngeal, 10th- Vagus, 11th- accessory nerve |  | 
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        | Largest opening on the inferior view is what structure? |  | Definition 
 
        | Foramen Magnum of the occipital bone |  | 
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        | What passes through foramen magnum? |  | Definition 
 
        | Spinal cord, vertebral arteries, 11th cranial nerve- accessory nerve |  | 
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        | What nerve is associated with cribiform plate? |  | Definition 
 
        | 1st cranial- olfactory nerve |  | 
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        | What nerve is associated with foramen rotundum? |  | Definition 
 
        | Maxillary division of 5th cranial nerve or trigeminal nerve |  | 
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        | What nerve is associated with Hypolossal canal? |  | Definition 
 
        | 12th cranial nerve- Hypoglossal nerve |  | 
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        | What nerve is associated with internal acoustic meatus? |  | Definition 
 
        | 7th cranial- facial nerve 8th cranial- vestibulocochlear nerve
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