1. Axial Skeleton
Bones of the Skull

2. 1) FRONTAL
FOREHEAD

3. 2) PARIETAL
Means “wall bone”
Meet at midline of skull

4. 3) TEMPORAL Bone AT TEMPLES
Connects with the mandible (lower jaw bone)

5. 4) OCCIPITAL BACK OF SKULL
where the *FORAMEN MAGNUM (large hole) is which the spinal cord goes through

6. 5) Sphenoid Forms floor of cranial cavity (butterfly shaped)
Forms back and side of orbit (eye socket)

7. 6) Ethmoid
Forms top of nasal cavity and is between the two orbits

8. 7) NASAL
Form bridge of nose

9. 8) MAXILLA
Two bones that are fused to form upper jaw; carry teeth

10. 9) PALATINE Lie posterior to the palatine process of the maxillae;
Form posterior part of hard palate (when palatine processes don’t fuse medially = cleft palate)

11. 10) MANDIBLE Lower jaw; largest and strongest bone of face
Joins temporal bones to form the only freely movable skull joints

12. 11) ZYGOMATIC
Cheekbones
Major part of the lateral walls of the orbits

13. 12) LACRIMAL Form medial walls of each orbit
Each bone has groove that is a passageway for tears (lacrima = tear)

14. 13) VOMER Single bone in the median line of the nasal cavity
Forms most of nasal septum

16. 14) INFERIOR NASAL CONCHAE
Thin curved bones that project from lateral walls of nasal cavity
(superior and medial
conchae are
considered part of
ethmoid bone)

17. Frontal/Coronal Suture
 Between the frontal bone and the parietal bones

18. Lambdoid Suture
 Between the parietal and occipital bones

19. Sagittal Suture
 Between the 2 parietal bones

20. Squamous Suture
 Between the parietal bone and the temporal bone