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1. Check all of the following that are facial bones. Maxilla Nasal Occipital Zyg

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Question

1. Check all of the following that are facial bones.

Maxilla

Nasal

Occipital

Zygomatic

Lacrimal

Sphenoid

Vomer

2. Check all that are typical differences between the female and male skull features.

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The female mandible is smaller and lighter than the male mandible.

The male superciliary arches are smaller with no prominence compared to those in females.

The squamous part of the frontal bone is usually more vertically oriented and rounded in females than in males.

The supraorbital margin has a thinner, sharper border in males than in females.

3. Which cranial bone houses the malleus, incus, and stapes?

Temporal

Sphenoid

Ethmoid

Occipital

4. The "soft spots" on an infant's head are caused by which of the following?

Cartilaginous cranial bones

Fontanelles

Injury to the skull during birth

Premature suture fusion

5. Check all of the following that form the lateral walls of the nasal complex.

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Ethmoid bone

Sphenoid bone

Maxilla Maxilla

Inferior nasal conchae

Perpendicular plates of the palatine bones

Lacrimal bones

6. The slender, curved bone that is located inferior to the skull between the mandible and larynx is the ____________ bone. It is unique in that is does not articulate with any bones in the body.

7. Select all that are true regarding bone development.

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Cranial bones form by intramembranous ossification.

Sternal bars fuse at about 8 months of development.

The neural tube surrounds the vertebral canal.

The tibia is formed through endochondral ossification.

Explanation / Answer

1. Maxilla, Nasal, Zygomatic, Lacrimal, Vomer

2. The female mandible is smaller and lighter than the male mandible.

The squamous part of the frontal bone is usually more vertically oriented and rounded in females than in males.

3. Temporal

4. Fontanelles

5. Ethmoid bone

Maxilla

Inferior nasal conchae

Perpendicular plates of the palatine bones

Lacrimal bones

6. hyoid