Which of the following features is located on the temporal bone?
A. Superior temporal line
B. Foramen rotundum
C. External acoustic meatus
D. Cribriform plate
E. Orbital plate
C. External acoustic meatus
Which area is immediately posterior to the most distal tooth in the upper arch of the dentition?
A. Retromolar triangle
B. Postglenoid process
C. Cribriform plate
D. Maxillary tuberosity
E. Hamular process
D. Maxillary tuberosity
In addition to the zygomatic bone, which of the following bones has a process that forms the other part of the zygomatic arch?
A. Temporal bone
B. Maxillae
C. Sphenoid
D. Palatine bone
A. Temporal bone
Which of the following is a location of the articulation of the parietal bone and the occipital bone?
A.Coronal suture
B. Squamosal suture
C. Sagittal suture
D. Lambdoidal suture
D. Lambdoidal suture
Which of the following bony landmarks form an articulation with each other?
A. Occipital condyle with atlas
B. Occipital condyle with axis
C. Mandibular fossa with coronoid notch
D. Mandibular fossa with coronoid process
A. Occipital condyle with atlas
Which of the following features is located on the lateral surface of the mandible?
A. Lingula
B. Submandibular fossa
C. Genial tubercles
D. External oblique line
E. Mandibular foramen
D. External oblique line
The orbital apex is composed of the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone and the?
A.Ethmoid
B.Frontal bone
C. Maxillae
D.Palatine bone
E. Lacrimal bone
D.Palatine bone
Which of the following landmarks is formed by the maxillae?
A Mental spine
B. Median palatine suture
C. Retromolar triangle
D. Hamulus
E. Inferior orbital fissure
B. Median palatine suture
Which of the following structures is located or travels within the infratemporal fossa?
A. Masseter Muscle
B.Pterygopalatine ganglion
C. Posterior superior alveolar artery
D. Maxillary division of the fifth cranial nerve
D. Maxillary division of the fifth cranial nerve
The concavity noted on the anterior border of the coronoid process of the ramus is the?
A. Mandibular notch
B. Coroniod notch
C. Temporal fossa
D. infratemporal fossa
B. Coroniod notch
Which of the following landmarks serves to locate the hyoid bone?
A. Level of the first cervical vertebra
B. Superior and Anterior to the thyroid cartliage
C. Articulation with the cartilage of the larynx
D. Inferior and posterior to the adam's apple
B. Superior and Anterior to the thyroid cartliage
Which of the following structures forms the floor of each maxillary sinus
A. Alveolar process of the maxilla
B. Facial wall of the maxilla
C.Infratemporal surface of the maxilla
D. Lateral wall of the nasal cavity
A. Alveolar process of the maxilla
Which of the following processes is located just inferior and medial to the external acoustic meatus?
A. Pterygiod Process
B. Styloid Process
C.Mastoid Process
D. Hamulus
B. Styloid Process
The spaces under the three conchae of the lateral walls of the nasal cavity are the?
A.Ostia
B.Ducts
C.Meatus
D.Inferior nasal conchae
E. Vestibules
C.Meatus
Which of the following bones and their processes form the hard palate?
A. Maxillary processes of the maxillae and horizontal plates of the palatine bone.
B. Palatal process of the maxillae and the maxially plates of the palatine bone
C. Horizontal plates
C. Horizontal plates of the palatine bones and palpatine processes of the maxillae
Which of the following cranial nerves is associated with the stylomastoid foramen?
A. Fifth cranial nerve
B.Seventh cranial nerve
C. Ninth cranial nerve
D. Tenth cranial nerve
E. Eleventh cranial nerve
B.Seventh cranial nerve
Which of the following bones in the skull is paried?
A. Sphenoid
B. Ethmoid
C. Occipital
D. Vomer
E. Parietal
E. Parietal
Which of the following bony plates is perforated to allow the passage of the olfactory nerves for the sense of smell?
A. Medial plate of sphenoid bone
B. Lateral plate of sphenoid bone
C. Perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone
D. Cribriform plate of ethmoid
D. Cribriform plate of ethmoid bone
Which of the following bones of the skull is considered a cranial bone?
A. Vomer
B.Maxilla
C. Sphenoid bone
D. Zygomatic bone
E. Mandible
C. Sphenoid bone
In which part of the temporal bone is the temporalmandibular joint located?
A.Squamous
B. Tympanic
C.Petrous
D.Mastoid
A.Squamous
Which is a single bone located at the midline of the skull?
A. Temporal
B. Zygomatic
C. Sphenoid
D. Inferior nasal conchae
C. Sphenoid
Which of the following structures is a short, windowlike opening normally found in bone?
A. Fossa
B. Foramen
C. Fissure
D. Perforation
B. Foramen
Which of the following bones forms the jugular foramen along with the jugular notch of the temporal bone?
A. Occiptal
B.Mandible
C. Parietal
D. Sphenoid
A. Occiptal
Which of the following is a faint ridge noted where the right and left mandibular processes fused together in early childhood?
A. Mylohyoid line
B. Mental Protuberance
C. Mandibular symphysis
D. External oblique line
C. Mandibular symphysis
In which bone are both the infraorbital foramen and canal located/
A. Frontal
B. Maxillae
C. Sphenoid
D. Zygomatic
B. Maxillae
Which of the following structures is a large, roughened projection on the petrous part of the temporal bone?
A. Notch
B. Process
C. Air Cells
D. Sinus
B. Process
Which of the following landmarks is an anterior process located on the sphenoid bone?
A.Wing
B.Notch
C. Body
D. Angle
A. wing
The lacrimal gland is located just inside the lateral part of the?
A. Gabella
B. Supraorbital ridge
C.Supraorbital notch
D. Nasion
B. Supraorbital ridge
The occipital condyles are located----and----- to the foramen magnum?
A.Medial, Anterior
B. Lateral, Anterior
C. Medial, Posterior
D. Lateral, Posterior
B. Lateral, Anterior
Which bone forms both the superior and middle nasal conchae?
A. Occipital Bone
B. Mandible
C. Maxilla
D. Frontal bone
E. Ethmoid
E. Ethmoid