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The axial skeleton includes all but which of the following components? |
| | A) | skull |
| | B) | vertebral column |
| | C) | pelvic girdle |
| | D) | thoracic cage |
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Which of the following are classified as bones associated with the skull? |
| | A) | axis and occipital bone |
| | B) | auditory ossicles and hyoid bone |
| | C) | ethmoid bone and sphenoid bone |
| | D) | temporal and parietal bones |
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Which set includes only bones of the cranium? |
| | A) | parietal bone, mandible, and ethmoid bone |
| | B) | frontal, sphenoid, and lacrimal bones |
| | C) | vomer, inferior nasal concha, and zygomatic bone |
| | D) | ethmoid, temporal, and occipital bones |
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| 4 | |
The four largest sutures that form the boundaries between the cranial bones are the |
| | A) | frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital |
| | B) | ethmoidal, coronal, sphenoidal, and horizontal |
| | C) | coronal, lambdoid, sagittal, and squamosal |
| | D) | midsagittal, transverse, coronal, and frontal |
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The atlas articulates with which structures? |
| | A) | occipital condyles |
| | B) | nuchal lines |
| | C) | pterygoid spines |
| | D) | none of the above |
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The bony enclosure that houses the pituitary gland is the |
| | A) | crista galli |
| | B) | sella turcica |
| | C) | cribriform plate |
| | D) | greater wing |
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Which set includes only foramina found in the sphenoid bone? |
| | A) | foramen magnum, hypoglossal foramen, and jugular foramen |
| | B) | foramen rotundum, foramen spinosum, and mastoid foramen |
| | C) | foramen ovale, optic foramen, and foramen rotundum |
| | D) | foramen ovale, stylomastoid foramen, and foramen lacerum |
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The articulation between the left and right parietal bones is the |
| | A) | sagittal suture |
| | B) | squamosal suture |
| | C) | coronal suture |
| | D) | lambdoid suture |
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Which set includes only bones of the face? |
| | A) | ethmoid bone, maxilla, and inferior nasal concha |
| | B) | zygomatic bone, mandible, and parietal bone |
| | C) | palatine bone, maxilla, and occipital bone |
| | D) | zygomatic bone, vomer, and palatine bone |
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| 10 | |
All of the following are characteristics of the maxillae except |
| | A) | compose the upper jaw |
| | B) | palatine processes form most of the hard palate |
| | C) | articulate with all other facial bones |
| | D) | alveolar processes contain the upper teeth |
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The only unpaired bones of the face are the |
| | A) | inferior nasal concha and maxilla |
| | B) | mandible and vomer |
| | C) | lacrimal bone and nasal bone |
| | D) | nasal bone and palatine bone |
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The temporomandibular joint is the articulation between the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone and the ____________ of the mandible. |
| | A) | mandibular condyle |
| | B) | coronoid process |
| | C) | alveolar process |
| | D) | ramus |
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Which set includes only bones that compose the nasal complex? |
| | A) | frontal, temporal, and zygomatic bones |
| | B) | lacrimal, palatine, and parietal bones |
| | C) | frontal, sphenoid, and ethmoid bones |
| | D) | nasal, sphenoid, and temporal bones |
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The paranasal sinuses are located in which bones? |
| | A) | sphenoid, frontal, and nasal bones |
| | B) | temporal, zygomatic bones, and maxilla |
| | C) | frontal, sphenoid, and ethmoid bones and maxilla |
| | D) | ethmoid, zygomatic, frontal, and lacrimal bones |
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Three tiny bones called ____________ are housed within each temporal bone. |
| | A) | inferior conchae |
| | B) | greater and lesser cornua |
| | C) | wormian bones |
| | D) | auditory ossicles |
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Fibrous membrane remnants between the cranial bones at birth are called |
| | A) | fontanels |
| | B) | sutures |
| | C) | cranial fossae |
| | D) | ligaments |
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Which sequence proceeds down the vertebral column from the skull? |
| | A) | thoracic, cervical, lumbar, sacral, coccygeal |
| | B) | coccygeal, sacral, lumbar, thoracic, cervical |
| | C) | cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, coccygeal |
| | D) | thoracic, lumbar, cervical, coccygeal, sacral |
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The primary, or accommodation, curves of the vertebral column are the ____________ curves. |
| | A) | cervical and thoracic |
| | B) | lumbar and sacral |
| | C) | cervical and lumbar |
| | D) | thoracic and sacral |
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The two main components of a typical vertebra are the |
| | A) | body and articular processes |
| | B) | body and vertebral arch |
| | C) | vertebral arch and articular processes |
| | D) | vertebral foramen and body |
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In the posterior midline of the vertebral arch, the ____________ projects posteriorly from the right and left laminae. |
| | A) | inferior articular process |
| | B) | superior articular process |
| | C) | transverse process |
| | D) | spinous process |
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| 21 | |
Transverse foramina distinguish ____________ vertebrae from all other types. |
| | A) | lumbar |
| | B) | cervical |
| | C) | sacral |
| | D) | coccygeal |
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The vertebra that articulates with the skull is the |
| | A) | axis |
| | B) | vertebra prominens |
| | C) | atlas |
| | D) | dens |
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Which vertebrae articulate with the ribs? |
| | A) | sacral |
| | B) | thoracic |
| | C) | lumbar |
| | D) | cervical |
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Making up approximately one-quarter of the entire vertebral column, ____________ act as shock absorbers between adjacent vertebral bodies. |
| | A) | laminae |
| | B) | superior articular processes |
| | C) | inferior articular processes |
| | D) | intervertebral discs |
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The costal groove along the inferior border of the internal surface of a rib marks |
| | A) | the path of nerves and blood vessels |
| | B) | the attachment of intercostal muscles |
| | C) | the position of inferior articular facets |
| | D) | both a and b |
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Ribs 11 and 12 are called floating ribs because they |
| | A) | do not articulate with the vertebrae |
| | B) | attach only indirectly to the sternum |
| | C) | have no connection to the sternum |
| | D) | do not articulate directly with any other bone |
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The three parts of the sternum are the |
| | A) | manubrium, body, and xiphoid process |
| | B) | interarticular crest, tubercle, and body |
| | C) | manubrium, head, and shaft |
| | D) | jugular notch, xiphoid process, and capitulum |
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The word root xiphos most nearly means |
| | A) | sternum |
| | B) | sword |
| | C) | lowest point |
| | D) | tip |
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Under normal conditions, deterioration of the axial skeleton begins |
| | A) | at approximately age 40 in women and 50 in men |
| | B) | shortly after puberty but accelerates around age 35 |
| | C) | only if a person's dietary calcium intake declines |
| | D) | in early childhood and continues throughout life |
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In the axial skeleton, centers of ossification are readily observable by which week of development? |
| | A) | third |
| | B) | sixth |
| | C) | tenth |
| | D) | twentieth |
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