OSTEOLOGY 49 



What important cavity is found in this bone? 

 How many cavities does this bone aid in forming? 

 Give the location of the malar bones. 

 What bones make up the orbit? 

 Where are the palate bones situated? 

 Where are the turbinated bones found? 

 What is the vomer, and what does it form? 

 What does the inferior maxillary bone form? 

 What is the hyoid bone? Give its location. 



THORAX AND PELVIS. 



What is the thorax? 

 What cavity is formed by the thorax? 

 What bones enter into its formation? 

 What is the sternum, and how is it divided? 

 What separates the thoracic from the abdominal cavity? 

 How many ribs go to make up the thorax? 

 How are the ribs divided? 

 To what class of bones do the ribs belong? 

 What are the spaces between ribs called? 

 What cavity is found below the diaphragm? 

 What does this cavity contain? 



What do you understand by the pelvis, and what forms the same? 

 How is the pelvis divided? 

 What is contained in this cavity? 

 What forms the outlet? 



What is the average transverse diameter of the pelvic outlet? 

 What is the sacrum? 



How many bones constitute the same, and at what age do they 

 consolidate? 



What is the coccyx, and to what is it predisposed? 



What are the ossa innominata, and what do they form? 



Into how many parts are they divided? Name them. 



Give the locations of the several parts. 



What passes through the openings in this bone? 



About what age do these several parts become consolidated? 



What is formed by the union of the ossa innominata anteriorly? 



BONES OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY. 



What bones form the shoulder-girdle? 

 Describe the clavicle. 



