ANSC 2340 Lecture Notes - Temporomandibular Joint, Masseter Muscle, Pituitary Gland
10 Apr 2013
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Bones connected by sutures (except for mandible/lower jaw) Sutures are jagged, immoveable fibrous joints which interlock. Joints are for attaching two bones joint made up of connective tissue or cartilage. Sutures are strips of fibrous tissue that outline and unite margins of bone. Important in young animals as allows growth of skull through extension of individual bones. 85 named openings in the skull foramina, canals, fissures, orbits act as pathways for. Orbit (means circle) is the bony socket that protects the eye. Foramen is simply a hole in a bone. Cranial part cranium or brain case (protects brain) Facial site of more differences between species. Cranium is part of the skull which houses and protects the brain. Large hole (foramen magnum) where spinal cord enters/attaches. Atlantoocipital joint connects atlas and occipital bone. Damage to this bone would be a problem. Not usually, a problem due to presence of muscles, tendons,
