NDSU Bio Anatomy Exam 2
Study Guide
axial skeleton - Answer the portion of the body that contains the skull, vertebral column,
and rib cage.
appendicular skeleton - Answer Bones of the limbs and limb girdles that are attached to
the axial skeleton
what are the different shapes of the bones - Answer long, short, flat, irregular, sesamoid
what are the openings/ passageways - Answer canal, fissure, foramen, groove, meatus,
notch, sinus, sulcus
articulation structures - Answer Condyle, Facet, Fossa, Head, Trochlea
attachment points - Answer Crest, Fossa, Line, Process, Protuberance, Ramus, Spine,
Trochanter, Tubercle, Tuberosity
what are the three fossae - Answer anterior cranial fossa, middle cranial fossa,
posterior cranial fossa
What are the bones of the cranium (head)? - Answer ethmoid, frontal, occipital, parietal,
sphenoid, temporal
Pterion - Answer sutural junction between sphenoid, temporal, frontal, and parietal
bones
Where is the maxillary sinus located? - Answer within the body of the maxilla
what does the mandible consist of? - Answer alveolar process with alveolar sockets,
angle, body, mental protuberance; mandibular foramen, mandibular notch, mental
foramen, submandibular fossa; coronoid process, mylohyoid line, ramus; condylar
head, and condylar process
what does the maxilla consist of? - Answer alveolar process with alveolar sockets,
palatine process; incisive fossa and incisive foramen, infraorbital foramen, maxillary
sinus
what are the two palatines - Answer greater palatine foramen and the lesser palatine
foramen
the zygomatic include - Answer zygomaticofacial foramen; temporal process of the
zygomatic arch
Where is the vomer located? - Answer inferior portion of nasal septum/ cavity
, what does the nasal septum have - Answer vomer, perpendicular plate, cartilage
turbinate bones - Answer conchae
nasal meatus - Answer 3 passages through the nasal cavity; superior, middle, inferior
paranasal sinuses - Answer frontal, maxillary, ethmoid, sphenoid
nasal cavity contribution - Answer nasal, maxilla, frontal, sphenoid, vomer, palatine,
lacrimal, inferior nasal conchae, and ethmoid
orbit contribution - Answer from frontal, maxilla, ethmoid, sphenoid, zygomatic,
palatine, and lacrimal
what are the openings in the orbit - Answer inferior orbital fissure, superior orbital
fissure, and optic canal
the hyoid bone contains - Answer body, greater horn, lesser horn
Structural Articulations - Answer fibrous, cartilaginous, synovial, synostosis
Synostosis joint - Answer bony joint
fibrous joints - Answer suture and syndesmosis
cartilaginous joints - Answer synchondrosis, symphysis
synovial joints - Answer ball and socket, ellipsoid, hinge, pivot, plane, and saddle
functional joints - Answer synarthroses, amphiarthroses, diarthroses
Synarthrosis - Answer immovable joint
Amphiarthrosis - Answer slightly movable joint
Diarthrosis - Answer freely movable joint; synovial joint
what are the joints of the skull? - Answer fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial
fibrous joints - Answer sutures, gomphosis, fontanels (fetal skull)
cartilaginous joint - Answer mandibular symphysis
synovial - Answer atlanto-occipital, temporomandibular (jaw)
Where is a gomphosis joint found? - Answer between teeth and sockets
where is the mandibular symphysis found - Answer between the two halves of the
mandible
Where is the atlanto-occipital joint? - Answer between occipital condyles of occipital
bone and first cervical vertebra (atlas)