Skull
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Skull
Skull
- Is the skeleton of the head and may be divided into two types of bones: 8 cranial bones for enclosing the brain (unpaired frontal, occipital, ethmoid, and sphenoid bones and paired parietal and temporal bones), which can be seen in the cranial cavity ; and 14 facial bones (paired lacrimal, nasal, palatine, inferior turbinate, maxillary, and zygomatic bones and unpaired vomer and mandible).
- Is sometimes restricted to the skull without the mandible.
- Is the skullcap , which is the vault of the skull without the facial bones. It consists of the superior portions of the frontal, parietal, and occipital bones.
- Its highest point on the sagittal suture is the vertex.
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