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| the entire body framework of the head, including the lower jaw |
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| the skull with out the mandible |
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| the cranium without the face |
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| Calvaria without the base |
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| three pairs of tiny bones associate with hearing |
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| Number of Bones in a Human Skull |
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| 28, including the ossicles, but excluding the hyoid |
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| interlocking articulations along the midline between the parietal bones |
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| between the frontals and parietals |
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| passes between the two parietals and the occipital |
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| unusual scalelike, beveled sutures between the temporal and parietal bones |
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| Frankfurt Horizontal (FH) |
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the convential way to orient the skull
-consists of a plane defined by three points: the right and left porion points and the left orbitale |
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Alveolare
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| the midline point at the inferior tip of the bony septum between the upper central incisors |
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| the midline point at the most anterior point on the alveolar process of the maxillae |
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| the midline point where the two nasal bones and the frontal intersect |
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| the most anterior midline point on the frontal bone, usually above the frontonasal suture |
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| the ectocranial point where the coronal and sagittal sutures intersect |
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| the ectocranial midline point where the sagittal and lambdoidal sutures intersect |
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| an instrumentally determined point at the rear of the cranium |
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| an ectocranial midline point at the base of the external occipital protuberance |
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| the midline point at the posterior margin of the foramen magnum |
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| the midline point on the anterior margin of the foramen magnum |
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| the most inferior midline point on the mandible |
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| the midline point at the superior tip of the suptum between the mandibular central incisors |
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| the lowest point on the orbital margin |
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| the intrumentally determined ectocranial point of greatest cranial breadth |
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| the uppermost point on the margin of the external auditory meatus |
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| a point along the rounded posteroinferior corner of the mandible between the ramus and the body |
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frontal eminences
(frontal tubers, bosses) |
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| dominate the ectocranial surface. |
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| mark the attachment of the temporalis muscle (a major elevator of the mandible), and its covering the temporal foscia (a facial sheet that covers the temporalis) |
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Metopic Suture
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| a vertical suture between right and left frontal halves |
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| grooves for middle meningeal arteriaes. They dominate the endocranial surface of the parietal |
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| thin platelike bone that rises almost vertically to form the cranial walls and articulate with the parietals along the squamosal suture |
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