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RADIOGRAPHIC POSITIONING AND RELATED ANATOMY
9th EDITION LAMPIGNANO
Chapter 11: Cranium, Facial Bones, and Paranasal Sinuses
Lampignano: Bontrager’s Textbook of Radiographic Positioning and Related
Anatomy, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following bones is part of the floor of the cranium?
a. Temporal
b. Occipital
c. Frontal
d. Parietal
ANS: A REF: 377
2. How many bones make up the facial bone region?
a. 6
b. 8
c. 12
d. 14
ANS: D REF: 377
3. Which bony landmark represents the highest level of the facial bone mass?
a. Nasion
b. Acanthion
c. Orbital plates
d. Supraorbital notch
ANS: C REF: 378
4. The widest portion of the cranium is found at the level of the:
a. parietal tubercles.
b. right and left pterion.
c. squamous portion of the temporal bone.
d. external acoustic meatus (EAM).
ANS: A REF: 379
5. What is the name of the joint found between the lateral condylar processes of the skull and the
atlas of C1?
a. Zygapophyseal joint
b. Intervertebral joint
c. Atlanto-occipital joint
d. Cervico-occipital joint
, ANS: C REF: 379
6. Which cranial bone articulates with the other seven cranial bones?
a. Parietal
b. Ethmoid
c. Sphenoid
, d. None of the above
ANS: C REF: 381
7. The slight depression above each eyebrow is termed the:
a. glabella.
b. supraorbital foramina.
c. supraorbital groove.
d. frontal tuberosity.
ANS: C REF: 378
8. Which of the following cranial bones does not articulate with the parietal bone?
a. Frontal
b. Sphenoid
c. Occipital
d. All of the above articulate with the parietal bone.
ANS: D REF: 379
9. The left mastoid fontanel becomes the in an adult.
a. left asterion
b. left pterion
c. left bregma
d. squamosal suture
ANS: A REF: 383
10. There are a total of fontN
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a. four
b. two
c. six
d. eight
ANS: C REF: 383
11. The frontal bone articulates with cranial bones.
a. four
b. six
c. two
d. five
ANS: A REF: 378
12. Which of the following landmarks corresponds with the level of the petrous ridge?
a. EAM
b. Top of ear attachment (TEA)
c. Squamosal suture
d. Inion
ANS: B REF: 380
13. The pituitary gland (hypophysis cerebri) is associated with and protected by the bone.
, a. temporal
b. ethmoid
c. palatine
d. sphenoid
ANS: D REF: 381
14. Which cranial bone contains the foramen ovale?
a. Sphenoid
b. Occipital
c. Ethmoid
d. Temporal
ANS: A REF: 381
15. Which cranial bone contains the cribriform plate?
a. Sphenoid
b. Occipital
c. Temporal
d. Ethmoid
ANS: D REF: 382
16. Which of the following sutures separates the parietal from the occipital bone?
a. Squamosal
b. Sagittal
c. Coronal
d. Lambdoidal
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ANS: D REF: 383
17. Which of the following terms describes the anterior fontanel found in the adult skull?
a. Bregma
b. Pterion
c. Asterion
d. Lambda
ANS: A REF: 383
18. Which of the following terms describes the small irregular bones occasionally found in the
sutures?
a. Asterion
b. Wormian
c. Sesamoid
d. Squamosal
ANS: B REF: 383
19. The ethmoid notch is part of which cranial bone?
a. Temporal
b. Ethmoid
c. Sphenoid
d. Frontal
RADIOGRAPHIC POSITIONING AND RELATED ANATOMY
9th EDITION LAMPIGNANO
Chapter 11: Cranium, Facial Bones, and Paranasal Sinuses
Lampignano: Bontrager’s Textbook of Radiographic Positioning and Related
Anatomy, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following bones is part of the floor of the cranium?
a. Temporal
b. Occipital
c. Frontal
d. Parietal
ANS: A REF: 377
2. How many bones make up the facial bone region?
a. 6
b. 8
c. 12
d. 14
ANS: D REF: 377
3. Which bony landmark represents the highest level of the facial bone mass?
a. Nasion
b. Acanthion
c. Orbital plates
d. Supraorbital notch
ANS: C REF: 378
4. The widest portion of the cranium is found at the level of the:
a. parietal tubercles.
b. right and left pterion.
c. squamous portion of the temporal bone.
d. external acoustic meatus (EAM).
ANS: A REF: 379
5. What is the name of the joint found between the lateral condylar processes of the skull and the
atlas of C1?
a. Zygapophyseal joint
b. Intervertebral joint
c. Atlanto-occipital joint
d. Cervico-occipital joint
, ANS: C REF: 379
6. Which cranial bone articulates with the other seven cranial bones?
a. Parietal
b. Ethmoid
c. Sphenoid
, d. None of the above
ANS: C REF: 381
7. The slight depression above each eyebrow is termed the:
a. glabella.
b. supraorbital foramina.
c. supraorbital groove.
d. frontal tuberosity.
ANS: C REF: 378
8. Which of the following cranial bones does not articulate with the parietal bone?
a. Frontal
b. Sphenoid
c. Occipital
d. All of the above articulate with the parietal bone.
ANS: D REF: 379
9. The left mastoid fontanel becomes the in an adult.
a. left asterion
b. left pterion
c. left bregma
d. squamosal suture
ANS: A REF: 383
10. There are a total of fontN
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a. four
b. two
c. six
d. eight
ANS: C REF: 383
11. The frontal bone articulates with cranial bones.
a. four
b. six
c. two
d. five
ANS: A REF: 378
12. Which of the following landmarks corresponds with the level of the petrous ridge?
a. EAM
b. Top of ear attachment (TEA)
c. Squamosal suture
d. Inion
ANS: B REF: 380
13. The pituitary gland (hypophysis cerebri) is associated with and protected by the bone.
, a. temporal
b. ethmoid
c. palatine
d. sphenoid
ANS: D REF: 381
14. Which cranial bone contains the foramen ovale?
a. Sphenoid
b. Occipital
c. Ethmoid
d. Temporal
ANS: A REF: 381
15. Which cranial bone contains the cribriform plate?
a. Sphenoid
b. Occipital
c. Temporal
d. Ethmoid
ANS: D REF: 382
16. Which of the following sutures separates the parietal from the occipital bone?
a. Squamosal
b. Sagittal
c. Coronal
d. Lambdoidal
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ANS: D REF: 383
17. Which of the following terms describes the anterior fontanel found in the adult skull?
a. Bregma
b. Pterion
c. Asterion
d. Lambda
ANS: A REF: 383
18. Which of the following terms describes the small irregular bones occasionally found in the
sutures?
a. Asterion
b. Wormian
c. Sesamoid
d. Squamosal
ANS: B REF: 383
19. The ethmoid notch is part of which cranial bone?
a. Temporal
b. Ethmoid
c. Sphenoid
d. Frontal
