In the viscerocranium (the face part of the skull) the mandible (jaw bone) can be moved up and down ad side to side.
The most hidden bone in the cranium is the sphenoid bone. It is situated at the base of the skull and forms part of the floor of the cranium, making it difficult to see without specialized imaging techniques.
The parietal bone is posterolateral to the frontal bone, forming the sides of the cranium.
The parietal bone is posterolateral to the frontal bone, forming the sides of the cranium.
The brain is protected by the cranium (skull)
forehead (cranium pars anterioris- frontal part the cranium)May also be called Cranium pars frontalis)
There are 8 cranial and 14 facial bones.The cranium is composed of a pair of parietal bones, a pair of temporal bones, one occipital bone, one frontal bone, one ethmoid bone, and one sphenoid bone. All these put together comprise the eight bones that compose the cranium.Eight cranial bones protect the brain: frontal, occipital, ethmoid, sphenoid and the two pairs of parietal and temporal bones.
Parietal bone
The cranium (skull).
skull or cranium
The cranium (skull).
Bone cells.....
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