BIO 167 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Collagen, Hypoglossal Canal, Scoliosis

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Composed of bones, cartilages, joints, and ligaments. Forms the longitudinal axis of the body. Protects brain, spinal cord, and organs of the thorax. Provides attachment sites for head and neck muscles. Provide openings for air and food passage. All skull bones (except mandible) are joined by sutures. Mandible is the only moveable bone of the skull. Know the major sutures joining the cranial bones together. Posterior, lateral, and superior aspects of skull; also forehead. Provide passage for spinal cord, major blood vessels, and 12 cranial nerves. Coronal suture b/t parietal and frontal bones. Sagittal suture b/t right and left parietal bones. Lambdoid suture b/t parietal and occipital. Squamous sutures b/t parietal and temporal bones. Most of skulls posterior wall and posterior cranial fossa. Sites of attachment for ligamentum nuchae and many neck and back muscles. Inferior/ lateral aspects of skull and parts of cranial floor. Forms roof of nasal cavity, superior portion of nasal septum.

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