48 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY FOR NURSES 



Name their location. 



What are eminences? 



Give an example of same. 



What are depressions? Give an example. 



How many bones are there in the adult skeleton? 



How are they divided as to number? 



What are sesamoid bones? 



What are Wormian bones, and where are they found? 



Mention the several names given to non-articular eminences. 



What are non-articular depressions? 



THE SPINAL COLUMN. 



What is the spine? 



How many bones enter into its formation? 

 Into how many regions is the spine divided? 

 Give the number in each region. 

 What is a vertebra? 

 What are the parts of a vertebra? 

 .What do the several parts form? 

 What is the function of the processes? 

 What does the arch form? 



What nerves pass through between the verteLrae? 

 What does the atlas support? 

 With what bone does the atlas articulate? 

 What articulates with the dorsal vertebrae? 

 With what does the sacrum articulate? 

 With what does the coccyx articulate? 

 What is the average length of the spine? 

 What curves does it present? 



Of what is the skull considered to be an expansion? 

 How is it divided? 



How many bones in the cranium? The face? 

 What does the occipital bone form? 

 What large foramen is found in the occipital bone? 

 What do the parietal bones form? 

 What does the frontal bone form? 

 What is found in the infant at the junction of the frontal and parietal 



bones? 



What important relations have the temporal bones? 

 Under what circumstances may this bone become diseased? 

 Where are the sphenoid and ethmoid bones located? 

 Where are the superior maxillary bones situated? 



