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Dental Hygiene Boards Anatomy

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1. Structure closest to lips






2. Also known as malar bone - forms cheek bone - helps form zygomatic arch - paired






3. Shaded area of lips that is darker than surrounding skin






4. Type of blood vessel that travels to the heart - carrying blood






5. Large vein coming in from bottom of the heart






6. Large amounts of blood that escape into the surroudning tissue without clotting - when a blood vessel is seriously injured






7. Number of facial bones






8. Posterior 1/3 of tongue






9. 1st and smallest division of trigeminal nerve - carries sensory information to brain - sensory for eyeball - cornea - and forehead






10. Also called a meniscus - attached to condyle on medial and lateral poles - shape conforms with shape of adjacent articulating bones - completely divides TMJ into 2 compartments - can be wrinking - torn - hardened - or detached on one end






11. Area that is farther away from the median plane of the body or structure






12. Tubercle or rounded elevation on a bony surface






13. IX nerve - primarily sens of taste - sensory and motor






14. Padding in between bones






15. Area where the bones are joined to each other






16. VII nerve - muscles of facial expression - tear glands - salivary glands - sensory and motor






17. When atherosclerosis occurs in arteries leading to the heart






18. Area used for mental block on lingual and opens into mental foramen






19. Paired bones - forms upper back side of skull






20. Middle superior alveolar nerve






21. Anterior 2/3 of tongue






22. Paired - most posterior part of the hard palate - they fuse together to form hard palate - greater palatine foramen located @ posterior lateral region






23. II cranial nerve - sensory - sight and visual impluses






24. Innervates to the maxilla by the second branch and the mandible by the third branch - have sensory - motor - and intermediate roots that attach directly to the brain - responsible for the sensory sensibility of most of the skin of the front part of t






25. Pointed end of a conical structure






26. Dislocation of joints






27. Portion of mandible that connects to the TMJ






28. Top posterior of tongue






29. The loss of feeling or sensation resulting from the use of certain drugs or gases that seruve as inhibitory neurotransmitters






30. Number of cranial bones






31. Muscle auto-responses from body - ex: breathing - digestion - heartbeat - eyes






32. Area that faces away from the head and toward the feet of the body






33. Smaller blood vessel that branches off an arteriole to supply blood directly to tissue






34. End of the muscle that is attached to the least movable structure






35. Protect - support - basis for movement - consideration in spread of dental infections






36. Ropey saliva composition






37. Characteristics that appear on a specific bone






38. Region of the head that is lateral to the infraorbital region - overlies zygomatic arch (cheek bone)






39. Oblique ridge - mental foramen - mandibular canal - alveolar process - mylohyoid grooves - mandibular foramen - lingula retromolar pad






40. Under tongue






41. Occipital - frontal - parietal-paired - temporal- paired - sphenoid - ethmoid






42. Swelling of lymph nodes :abnormal enlargement' - can be helped with antibiotic






43. Lowering of the lower jaw






44. Vomer - lacrimal bones- paired - inferior nasal conchae- paired - zygomatic bones- paired - maxillary bones- paired - mandible






45. Smallest structural unit of living matter capable of functioning independently






46. Short canal leading to the tympanic cavity






47. A joint on each side of the ehad that allows for movement of the mandible - speech - and mastication - Location: where condyle of mandible articulates with the zygomatic process of the temporal bone






48. Nerve supply to the periodontium






49. Fuses with frontal bone facially






50. 2 branches of nervous system