Head and Neck quiz -- Bones of the Face

What is the area on the medial surface of the mandible above the mylohyoid line, that contains the sublingual salivary gland?
1. Sub Mandibular Fossa
2. Sublingual Fossa
3. Genial Tubercles
4. Digastric Fossa
What is the rear part, or behind?
1. Superior
2. Anterior
3. Mesial
4. Posterior
Where is the lingula located?
1. Medial surface of the body of the mandible
2. Lateral surface of the Ramus
3. Medial surface of the Ramus
4. Lateral surface of the body of the mandible
What is a part of a bone that is prominent beyond a surface like a knob?
1. Articulate
2. Foramen
3. Protuberance
4. Fossa
What is a crack, a long narrow opening?
1. Fissure
2. Articulate
3. Eminence
4. Tubercle
What is another name for the coronoid notch, or sigmund notch?
1. Condyle
2. Condyle notch
3. Mandibular foramen
4. Mandibular notch
What is situated below or directed downward? Away from the head; toward the lower part of the structure?
1. Inferior
2. Posterior
3. Superior
4. Anterior
What is a pit, depression, on a bone, or formed from several bones?
1. Fossa
2. Foramen
3. Tubercle
4. Fissure
What is the verticle extension of the mandible?
1. Mental Foramen
2. Alveolar process
3. Ramus
4. Symphysis menti
What is the triangular shaped depression that is located at the neck of the ramus?
1. Retro Molar Triangle
2. Pterygoid process
3. Genial Tubercles
4. Mylohyoid Ridge
What is the rounded piece of bone where the mandible articulates with the temporal bone?
1. Coronoid process
2. Angle
3. Mandibular notch
4. Condyle
What is the single facial bone that articulates bilaterally with the temporal bones at the temporomandibular joints?
1. Mandible
2. Maxilla
3. Parietal
4. Frontal
What is the bony prominence at the posterior superior extension of the ramus of the mandible?
1. Condyle
2. Mandibular notch
3. Coronoid process
4. Angle
What is the portion of the mandibular alveolar process just posterior to the most distal mandibular molar that is covered by the retromolar pad?
1. Genial Tubercles
2. Sublingual Fossa
3. Pterygoid Fossa
4. Retro Molar Triangle
What is situated above or directed upward toward the head of an individual? The relative term meaning nearer the top or of the upper portion of the body?
1. Inferior
2. Superior
3. Anterior
4. Posterior
What is a projecting part, or prominence, an apophysis, process or swelling?
1. Protuberance
2. Tubercle
3. Foramen
4. Fissure
What is a prominent projection of bone?
1. Fossa
2. Condyle
3. Process
4. Articulate
What is a relatively small projection or bump?
1. Fissure
2. Tubercle
3. Eminence
4. Aperture
What is a large convex or concave articular prominence?
1. Condyle
2. Fissure
3. Foramen
4. Fossa
What hole is between the apices of the mandibular first and second preomolars that transmits the mental nerve and blood vessels?
1. Ramus
2. Mental tubercles
3. Mental Foramen
4. Alveolar Process
What is the area of the mandible that allows the inferior alveolar nerve and blood vessels to enter or exit the mandibular canal?
1. Mandibular foramen
2. Angle
3. Mental foramen
4. Alveolar process
What is the anterior superior projection of the ramus of the mandible?
1. Angle
2. Coronoid process
3. Mandibular notch
4. Condyle
What is the elevation bone which is pretty pronounced, from the ramus forward to the genial tubercles?
1. Mylohyoid Ridge
2. Sublingual fossa
3. Digastric Fosa
4. Retro Molar Triangle
What is the constricted area that is considered to be a landmark on the lateral surface of the ramus?
1. Cornoid process
2. Neck of condyle
3. Mandibular notch
4. Angle
What is the bony spine that overhangs the mandibular foramen?
1. Angle
2. Coronoid process
3. Lingula
4. Condyle
What is the area between the medial and lateral pterygoid plates of the sphenoid bone?
1. Retro molar triangle
2. Pterygoid fossa
3. Mandibular notch
4. Angle
What are two projections of bone on the symphysis menti?
1. Mental Protuberance
2. Alveolar process
3. Mental tubercles
4. External oblique line
What is the ridge of bone where the two halves of the mandible form?
1. Symphysis Menti
2. Mental Foramen
3. Alveolar Process
4. Mental Protuberance
What is the plate of the mandible that extends superiorly from the body of the mandible?
1. Ramus
2. Angle
3. Lingula
4. Condyle
Where is the angle located?
1. Lateral surface of Ramus
2. Lateral surface of the body of the mandible
3. Medial Surface of Ramus
4. Medial surface of the body of the mandible
What is of or near the head end or toward the front plane of the body?
1. Superior
2. Inferior
3. Anterior
4. Posterior
What is a rounded opening through which blood vessels, nerves or ligaments pass through?
1. Prominence
2. Fissure
3. Foramen
4. Condyle
What is a small, rounded projection?
1. Tubercle
2. Fossa
3. Aperture
4. Condyle
What is a depression in or on a bone?
1. Protuberance
2. Condyle
3. Fossa
4. Articulate
What is the crest of the lateral side of the mandible, where the ramus joins the body?
1. Mental foramen
2. External oblique line
3. Symphysis menti
4. Mental protuberance
What is an opening, hole?
1. Tubercle
2. Articulate
3. Aperture
4. Eminence
What is a process by which two adjacent bones form a joint and slide upon each other?
1. Aticulate
2. Tubercule
3. Aperture
4. Eminence
What are the 4 little projections of bone right at the midline of the mandible where muscles attach?
1. Sub Mandibular Fossa
2. Genial Tubercles
3. Retro Molar Triangle
4. Mylohyoid Ridge
Where is the mandibular notch located?
1. Lateral surface of the Ramus
2. Medial surface of the Ramus
3. Medial surface of the body of the mandible
4. Lateral surface of the body of the mandible
What is the depressed area between the coronoid process and condyle?
1. Angle
2. Mandibular notch
3. Lingula
4. Neck of condyle
The angle is a roughened area of bone.
1. True
2. False
What is a narrow cleft like opening between adjacent parts of bone through which blood vessels or nerves pass?
1. Articulate
2. Fossa
3. Fissure
4. Condyle
What is the mandibular bony prominence of the chin? The triangular projection that forms the chin?
1. Mental Foramen
2. Mental Protuberance
3. Mental Tubercles
4. Symphysis Menti
Where is the mandibular foramen located?
1. Medial surface of the body of the mandible
2. Lateral surface of the body of the mandible
3. Lateral surface of the Ramus
4. Medial surface of the Ramus
What is the opening in bone below the bicuspids and transports nerves?
1. Mental Foramen
2. Symphysis menti
3. Mental Protuberance
4. Alveolar Process
What is the section called that the body of the mandible becomes the ramus?An
1. Condyle
2. Mandibular notch
3. Angle
4. Coronoid process
What are the midline bony projections or the mental spines on the inner aspect of the mandible?
1. Pterygoid Fossa
2. Digastric Fossa
3. Sublingual Fossa
4. Genial Tubercles
What is the portion of the mandible that contains tthe roots of the teeth?
1. Mental protuberance
2. Alveolar process
3. Symphysis menti
4. External oblique line
What is the area on the medial surface of the mandible, below the mylohyoid line, that contains the submandibular salivary glands?
1. Sub Mandibular Fossa
2. Sublingual Fossa
3. Digastric Fossa
4. Genial Tubercles
What is it called at the intersection of the posterior and inferior borders of the ramus?
1. Coronoid process
2. Condyle
3. Angle
4. Neck of the Condyle
What is a natural opening or passage in bone?
1. Protuberance
2. Fossa
3. Foramen
4. Condyle
The bone at the coronoid process is thicker than at the condyle of the mandible.
1. False
2. True
What is the depression in the bone on the medial surface of the body of the mandible that the digastric muscle fits into?
1. Pterygoid Fossa
2. Digastric fossa
3. Digastric Tubercles
4. Mylohyoid ridge

Head and Neck quiz -- Bones of the Face

This quiz is brought to you by www.amyrdhstudents.comThis is made up from notes from my class in 1997 and the book:Illustrated Anatomy of the Head and Neck, By Fehrenbach and Herring, W.B. Saunders Co., 1996

This quiz is brought to you by www.amyrdhstudents.com
This is made up from notes from my class in 1997 and the book:
Illustrated Anatomy of the Head and Neck, By Fehrenbach and Herring, W.B. Saunders Co., 1996