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5.5: MODELS- Bones

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    Lab List Skull

    Easy difficulty

    Medium difficulty

    Hard difficulty

    Bones:

    • Identify from external views:
    • Parietal, Ethmoid, Sphenoid, Temporal,
    • Occipital, Frontal
    • Vomer, Inferior nasal concha, Nasal, Maxilla, Mandible, Palatine, Zygomatic, Lacrimal

     Bones:

    • identify bones than can be seen from the internal view (occipital, temporal, ethmoid, sphenoid, frontal)
    • identify disarticulated skull bones
    • (sphenoid and ethmoid)

    Bones :

    Landmarks:

    • Mastoid Process, Mandibular Fossa,
    • Sphenoid: Greater & lesser wings
    • Sutures: sagittal, coronal, squamous, lambdoid.

    Landmarks:

    • Cranium: Glabella. Occipital condyles. Styloid process.
    • Face: Alveolar processes of maxilla & mandible. lacrimal fossa
    • Understand the difference between the zygomatic bone, zygomatic arch & zygomatic process (of the temporal bone).
    • Temporal process of zygomatic bone
    • Sphenoid: sella turcica, pterygoid plates.
    • Mandible: ramus, condyle, body, coronoid process.

    Landmarks:

    • Sinuses: frontal, sphenoid, maxillary.
    • Petrous & squamous part of temporal bone
    •  Palatine process of maxilla
    • orbital margins
    • Sphenoid: Hypophyseal fossa
    • Ethmoid: lateral masses, superior & middle nasal conchae, crista galli, perpendicular plate, cribiform plates.

    Foramen

    • Foramen magnum
    • External acoustic meatus

    Foramen:

    • mental, optic canal, superior orbital notch/foramen, infraorbital , olfactory foramina, carotid canal, jugular, ovale, lacerum, spinosum.

    Foramen:

    • stylomastoid, internal acoustic meatus, rotundum, hypoglossal, condylar canal, incisive, greater palatine.

    Areas:

    • Cranium (mnemonic: Pest of 6)
    •  Face (mnemonic: Virgil cannot make
    • my pet zebra laugh)

    Areas:

    • Cranial fossa: anterior, middle, posterior.

     

     

    Lab List Spine / Axial Skeleton

    Bones:

    • 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar vertebrae
    • Atlas & axis
    • Sacrum & coccyx
    • Sternum
    • Hyoid

    Bones:

    • Identify disarticulated vertebrae as
    • atlas/axis/cervical/thoracic or lumbar

     

    Vertebrae landmarks:

    Body

    • Transverse process, spinous process
    • Transverse foramen, Intervertebra
    • foramenl, Vertebral foramen,
    • Superior & inferior articular processes

    Vertebrae landmarks:

    • Costal facets
    • Costal demifacets: inferior & superior.

    Dens of axis

    Vertebrae landmarks:

    • Pedicles, Arch, Lamina, Superior & inferior notch

    Sternum landmarks

    • manubrium, body, xiphoid process

    Sternum landmarks

    • Jugular notch, sternal angle.

     

     

    Sacrum landmarks

    • Sacral foramen, Ala, Body, Auricular surface

     

    Misc:

    • Identify true/false/floating ribs on articulated spine.
    • Know number of ribs.
    • List 1 identifying characteristic of the 3 different types of vertebrae

    Misc:

    Misc:

    • Spinal curves: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral

    This page titled 5.5: MODELS- Bones is shared under a CC BY-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Laird C. Sheldahl.

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