Axial Skeleton
Bones of the Skull
1) FRONTAL
 FOREHEAD
2) PARIETAL
 Means “wall bone”
 Meet at midline of skull
3) TEMPORAL
 Bone AT TEMPLES
 Connects with the mandible
(lower jaw bone)
4) OCCIPITAL
 BACK OF SKULL
 where the *FORAMEN MAGNUM (large
hole) is which the spinal cord goes through
5) Sphenoid
 Forms floor of cranial cavity
(butterfly shaped)
 Forms back and side of orbit (eye socket)
6) Ethmoid
 Forms top of nasal cavity and is between
the two orbits
7) NASAL
 Form bridge of nose
8) MAXILLA
 Two bones that are fused to form upper
jaw; carry teeth
9) PALATINE
 Lie posterior to the palatine process of the
maxillae;
 Form posterior part of hard palate (when
palatine processes don’t fuse medially =
cleft palate)
10) MANDIBLE
 Lower jaw; largest and strongest bone of
face
 Joins temporal bones to form the only
freely movable skull joints
11) ZYGOMATIC
 Cheekbones
 Major part of the lateral walls of the orbits
12) LACRIMAL
 Form medial walls of each orbit
 Each bone has groove that is a passageway
for tears (lacrima = tear)
13) VOMER
 Single bone in the median line of the nasal
cavity
 Forms most of nasal septum
14) INFERIOR NASAL CONCHAE
 Thin curved bones that project from lateral
walls of nasal cavity

(superior and medial
conchae are
considered part of
ethmoid bone)
Frontal/Coronal Suture
 Between the frontal bone and the parietal
bones
Lambdoid Suture
  Between the parietal and occipital
bones
Sagittal Suture
 Between the 2 parietal bones
Squamous Suture
 Between the parietal bone and the
temporal bone