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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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