Coronal Suture ✔✔ Joint between frontal and parietal bones
Ethmoid Bone ✔✔ Contributes to anterior cranial fossa, nasal cavity, and
orbit
Contains numerous sinuses (air cells)
Frontal Bone ✔✔ Unpaired, irregular-shaped, flat bone
Forms forehead, roof of orbits, and most of anterior cranial fossa
Contains frontal air sinuses
Inferior nasal concha ✔✔ Shelf-like projection of bone
Covered by thick mucosa
Articulates with ethmoid bone
Lacrimal Bone ✔✔ Smallest and most delicate bone of skull
Orbital surface contributes to fossa for lacrimal sac and nasolacrimal
groove
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Nasal surface contributes to middle nasal concha
mandible ✔✔ U-shaped bone
Each side consists of body (horizontal) and ramus (vertical) with coronoid
and condylar processes
Mental protuberance forms point of chin
Contains alveoli ("sockets") for teeth
Middle nasal concha ✔✔ Shelf-like projection of bone
Covered by thick mucosa
Part of ethmoid bone
Maxilla ✔✔ Paired, irregular-shaped bone
Left and right maxillae unite to form "upper jaw"
Contains alveoli ("sockets") for teeth
Contains maxillary air sinus on each side
nasal bone ✔✔ Small, paired bone
Articulates at midline with nasal bone from opposite side
Orbit ✔✔ Pyramidal space with roof, floor, and medial and lateral walls
Roof: frontal and sphenoid bones
Floor: palatine and zygomatic bones, and maxilla
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