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What is the skull made up of
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Cranium and facial bones
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Cranium protects:
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The brain and organs of hearing and equilibruim
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Facial bones functions:
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Form the framework of the face, provide cavities for sense organs, provide openings for passage of air and food, secure teeth, and achor facial muscles of expression
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Coronal suture joins
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Frontal with parietal bones
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Sagittal suture joins
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The 2 parietal bones
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Squamosal suture joins
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Temporal with parietal bones
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Lambdoidal suture joins
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Occipital with parietal bones
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In children bones are joined by
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Fontanels, soft spots
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Anterior fontanel closes after
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2 years
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Posterior fontanel closes after
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1 year
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Cranium is divided into
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The calvaria, top of the skull and the base, or floor
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The base or floor of the cranium is divided into
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Anterior(houses frontal lobe), middle(houses temporal lobe, and posterior(houses cerebellum) cranial fossa
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What sits in the sella turcica
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Pituitary gland
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Optic nerve are
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Photoreceptors whose axons exit retina as optic disc
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Path from optic nerve..
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To optic chiasma(medial fibers cross), to optic tract, to thalamux, to optic radiation, to visual cortex
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