ANT334H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: External Carotid Artery, Vomer, Frontal Bone
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Houses, supports, protects most sensory organs: eyes, ears, nose, tongue. Teeth and jaw: cutting, chewing, with tongue for speech. Osteological significance reflects: individualization, sexual dimorphism, aging changes, evolutionary adaptation. 12 pairs of nerves: connected to base of brain. Control special senses and: sensory, motor, parasympathetic innervation of head. Each nerve has: intracranial course, point of exit through skull, extracranial course and distribution. * responsible for the name of the nerves, the functions: oh, oh, oh, to take a family vacation! Internal and external jugular veins: they interact with the cranium, need to know the features that interact the cranium; the major ones go across the skull, if they impact the skull. 29 bones in skull including: 6 ear bones, hyoid. Bones of calvarium: intramembranous ossification (thick membrane tissue that is mineralized) Cross section: like sandwich, inner and outer tables of compact, layer of cancellous bone diploe. Skull bones connect at interlocking joints: sutures.
