front 1 Frontal Bone | back 1 Forehead bone / part of axial skeleton |
front 2 Zygomatic Bone | back 2 Cheek bone / part of axial skeleton |
front 3 Mandible Bone | back 3 Lower jaw bone / part of axial skeleton |
front 4 Nasals | back 4 Bridge of nose / part of axial skeleton |
front 5 Palatines | back 5 Posterior part of hard plate / part of axial skeleton / *where is this located? |
front 6 Parietals | back 6 Much of the lateral and superior cranium
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front 7 Occipiatal | back 7 Most posterior part of cranium, condyles articulate with the atlas, foramen magnum contained here, |
front 8 Sphenoid | back 8 Single, irregular, bat shaped bone, forming part of the canial floor / part of axial skeleton |
front 9 Lacrimals | back 9 Tiny bones, bearing tear ducts / axial skeleton |
front 10 Maxillae | back 10 Anterior part of hard plate, contain alveoli bearing teeth, axial skeleton |
front 11 Ethmoid | back 11 Superior and middle nasal conchae formed from its projections, bears an upward protrusion the "cock's comb" or crista galli, axial skeleton |
front 12 Mandible | back 12 Site of mental foremen, contains alveoli bearing teeth, axial skeleton |
front 13 Temporals | back 13 Site of styloid process, middle ear found here, axial skeleton |
front 14 Hyoid Bone | back 14 small U-shaped bone in neck, where many tongue muscles attach, axial skeleton |
front 15 Vomer | back 15 Nasal septum, axial skeleton |
front 16 Define suture | back 16 All but one of the bones of the skull are joined by interlocking joints |