7. The Skeletal System

True or False; if false, select the answer that best corrects the statement.

Associated bones provide a house for the brain.

If a patient has a tumor on the pituitary gland, a surgeon will often make an incision in the nose before cutting into which bone to reach the pituitary?

Damage to which bone is most likely to cause problems with hearing?

During a baseball game, the batter hit's a line drive that strikes the pitcher directly in the face breaking a bone. Among the four bones listed, which bone would you expect to be the least likely to be the bone that is broken in this situation?

The two parietal bones are united at the_______suture; they meet the frontal bone at the_____ suture, the temporal bones at the______ sutures, and the occipital bone at the_____suture.

Mark the following statements as true or false. If a statement is false, correct it to make a true statement.

a. The four paranasal sinuses are the frontal, parietal, sphenoidal, and mandibular sinuses.

Mark the following statements as true or false. If a statement is false, correct it to make a true statement.

b. The cribriform plate is a component of the ethmoid bone.

Mark the following statements as true or false. If a statement is false, correct it to make a true statement.

c. The sella turcica of the sphenoid bone houses the pituitary gland.