Question

What are the names of the cranial bones?

Answer 1

There are eight cranial bones that form the human skull and are named as follows: parietal bone, temporal bone, frontal bone, occipital bone, sphenoid bone, and ethmoid bone.

Complete answer:
-The skull is made up of a total of 22 bones and is divided into two parts: the cranium and the mandible
-With unique sizes and shapes, the human skull is made up of eight kinds of bones.
-Frontal bone: The frontal bone is one in number and predominantly makes up the forehead and a portion of the upper eye socket.
-Parietal bone: Located behind the frontal bone, the parietal bones are two in number and form the sides of the cranium.
-Ethmoid bone: The singular ethmoid bone separates the nasal cavity from the brain and makes up the orbit of the eye.
-Sphenoid bone: The sphenoid bone sits below the frontal bone.
-Temporal bone: The temporal bones are two in number and sit at the sides of the skull underneath the parietal bone.
-Occipital bone: The occipital bone is found towards the back of the skull and covers the occipital lobes of the cerebellum.

Additional information:
-Fourteen bones make up the face and they are the nasal bones, the maxilla, the mandible, zygomatic bones, lacrimal bones, palatine bones, the vomer, inferior nasal conchae, and the nasal bones.
-All the bones listed above are two in number, except for the mandible and the vomer.

Note:
-In humans, the cranium and the mandible are known as the neurocranium and viscerocranium respectively.
-The neurocranium houses the brain and brainstem and functions as a protective covering called the cranial cavity.
-All the bones of the skull are held together by sutures (except for the mandible).