Exercise 9 Axial Skeleton Reviewing Your Knowledge A. Bone Surface Markings 1. meatus 2. condyle 3. foramen 4. fossa 5. ramus 6. fissure 7. spinous process B. Bones and Bone Surface Markings 1. ethmoid 2. occipital 3. maxilla and mandible 4. sphenoid 5. temporal 6. ethmoid 7. sphenoid 8. temporal 9. occipital 10. sphenoid C. Skull Bones and Bone Markings 1. frontal bone 2. parietal bone 3. squamous suture 4. orbit of eye 5. ethmoid bone 6. lacrimal bone 7. perpendicular plate of ethmoid 8. inferior nasal concha (turbinate) 9. vomer 10. mental foramen 11. coronal suture 12. supraorbital foramen 13. superior orbital fissure 14. temporal bone 15. nasal bone 16. inferior orbital fissure 17. middle nasal concha 18. zygomatic bone 19. maxilla 20. mandible D. Skull Bones and Bone Markings, Lateral View 1. parietal bone 2. sphenoid bone 3. squamous suture 4. temporal bone 5. zygomatic process 6. condylar process (mandibular condyle) 7. lambdoid suture

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8. occipital bone 9. external auditory meatus 10. mastoid process 11. styloid process 12. ramus of mandible 13. coronal suture 14. frontal bone 15. ethmoid bone 16. nasal bone 17. lacrimal bone 18. lacrimal fossa 19. zygomatic bone 20. maxilla 21. coronoid process 22. body of mandible 23. hyoid bone E. Skull Bones and Bone Markings, Inferior View of Skull 1. zygomatic bone 2. zygomatic process 3. vomer 4. sphenoid bone 5. foramen ovale 6. mandibular fossa 7. carotid foramen 8. jugular foramen 9. occipital condyle 10. hypoglossal foramen 11. temporal bone 12. occipital bone 13. palatine process of maxilla 14. maxilla 15. palatine bone 16. pterygoid processes 17. styloid process 18. external auditory meatus 19. stylomastoid foramen 20. mastoid process 21. foramen magnum 22. parietal bone 23. lambdoid suture F. Skull Bones and Bone Markings, Superior View of Floor of Cranium 1. coronal suture 2. foramen rotundum 3. foramen ovale 4. internal auditory meatus (acoustic meatus) 5. hypoglossal foramen 6. foramen magnum 7. occipital bone 8. frontal bone 9. crista galli 10. olfactory foramina 11. cribriform plate 12. ethmoid bone 13. lesser wing of sphenoid

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14. optic foramen 15. sella turcica 16. greater wing of sphenoid 17. sphenoid bone 18. squamous suture 19. temporal bone 20. jugular foramen 21. parietal bone 22. lambdoid suture H. Vertebral Column and Thorax 1. intervertebral discs 2. intervertebral foramen 3. thoracic cage 4. atlas 5. axis 6. thoracic vertebrae 7. coccyx 8. vertebral column 9. cervical and lumbar curvatures 10. thoracic and pelvic curvatures 11. vertebral arch 12. transverse foramen I. Other Major Features of the Axial Skeleton 1. lambdoid suture 2. maxilla 3. temporomandibular joint 4. hyoid bone 5. fontanels 6. transverse foramen 7. facets and demifacets 8. head of rib 9. tubercle of rib 10. axis 11. perpendicular plate of ethmoid 12. vomer