Questions and Answers 2024
Auricle - ✔✔Whole ear
External Acoustic Meatus - ✔✔opening of the ear (where the Q-tip goes in)
Tragus - ✔✔Smaller flap of tissue of the auricle. Anterior to the external acoustic
meatus.
Medial Canthus - ✔✔Inner angle of the eye
Lateral Canthus - ✔✔Outer corner where the upper and lower eyelids meet.
Lacrimal gland - ✔✔where tears are formed
pupil - ✔✔dark part inside the iris
Iris - ✔✔color part of the eye
Naris - ✔✔openings in the nose
Glabella - ✔✔in between the eyebrows above the naison
Nasion - ✔✔Above the bridge of the nose, below the glabella
Bridge of the nose - ✔✔Where your glasses sit. below the nasion
Ala - ✔✔Rounded part of the naris
Apex of nose - ✔✔tip of your nose
How many regions are in the head? - ✔✔12
What are the 12 regions of the head? - ✔✔Frontal, parietal, temporal, zygomatic,
auricular, occipital, orbital, nasal, infraorbital, oral, buccal, and mental.
whats another name for the neck? - ✔✔Cervix
The next subdivides into? - ✔✔2 triangles= Anterior cervical triangle and Posterior
cervical triangle
The anterior cervical triangle divides into? - ✔✔submandibular, submental, muscular,
and carotid
location of Submandibular triangle - ✔✔located: under the mandible
, location of Submental triangle - ✔✔located: below the chin
location of Muscular triangle - ✔✔located: lower neck where the muscles are
location of carotid triangle - ✔✔located: side of neck where carotid artery is
Posterior cervical triangle is divided into? - ✔✔2 triangles occipital and subclavian
location of occipital - ✔✔located below the occipital head region
location of subclavian - ✔✔located below the occipital triangle
What muscle divides the anterior and posterior cervical triangles? - ✔✔Stenocleido
mastoid muscle
Process - ✔✔any prominence on bony surface
condyle - ✔✔oval bony prominence usually involved in joints
head - ✔✔rounded structure projected
tubercle - ✔✔eminence or small rounded elevation on bony surface
line - ✔✔small straight ridge of the bone
spine - ✔✔abrupt small prominence of a bone.
tuberosity - ✔✔large often rough prominence on bony surface
notch - ✔✔indentation at edge of bone
plate - ✔✔flat structure of the bone
sulcus - ✔✔shallow depression or groove on a bony surface
fossa - ✔✔deeper depression on bony surface
foramen - ✔✔short window like openings in a bone
meatus - ✔✔opening or canal in a bone
ostium - ✔✔smaller opening in a bone
canal - ✔✔longer narrow and tube like opening in a bone
aperture - ✔✔narrow opening in a bone
joint - ✔✔site of a junction or union between two or more bones
suture - ✔✔generally immovable articulation joining bones by fibrous tissue.
how many crainal bones are there? - ✔✔8