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What is the bone located in the posterior of the skull?
The occipital bone is most posterior.
What is the bone behind your ear called?
A skull (very funny) the bone behind your ear is called the mastoid process. the mastoid bone is the most posterior part of the temporal bone of your skull.
What bone is found just posterior to the ethmoid bone?
Posterior means behind or toward the back -- so which bone is behind the ethmoid bone? The sphenoid bone (butterfly shaped one).The bone that is found just posterior to the ethmoid bone in the orbit is the sphenoid. Major paranasal sinuses are the ethmoid, sphenoid, frontal, and maxillary sinuses.
Where in the body is the mastoid bone?
The purpose of the mastoid process is to function as an attachment for particular muscles of the neck. It is situated in the posterior part of the temporal bone.
What is the prominent bony mass that is located at the base of the skull and posterior to the ear?
The mastoid process is located at the base of the skull and posterior to the ear.
What is the bone that protects the skull?
The skull is a bone. The skull protects the brain.
Which bone can of the skull can move?
which bone of the skull canmove
Which bone has a name that means plowshare?
I believe it is the Vomer, a human facial bone, or it can be the Pygostyle which is in the bird. from a source: The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; pygostyle- the plowshare bone. the vomer; one of the unpaired facial bones of the skull.
What is the most anterior bone of the superior skull?
There are many bones that make up the skull. the occupital bone is the back of your skull. the frontal bone is also known as the forehead. and the pariatal bones are located on the left and right sides of the skull. see picture for more info. becomehealthynow.com/images/organs/bones/skull_bones_side_view.jpg
What suture establishes the posterior limit of the frontal bone?
The coronal suture establishes the posterior limit of the frontal bone.
What bone is located at the base of the skull?
There are two joints at the base of the skull: - a condyloid joint between the occipital bone of the skull and the first (C1) vertebra, the atlas. - a pivot joint located between the C1 and C2 cervical vertebrae (atlas and axis).
What exception is the skull bones joined?
The exception in the human skull is the mandible (jaw bone) which is the only movable bone in the skull.
