NURS305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: External Carotid Artery, Orbicularis Oculi Muscle, Thyroid Cartilage
23 Dec 2016
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Chapter 14: head and neck with lymphatic"s assessment. Head and neck, including the scalp, cranium, lymphatic"s, parathyroid, and thyroid gland. Includes the cranium and facial skeleton, which together encompass 22 bones that support and contain soft tissue organs, including the eyes, ears, and brain. Cranium bones = frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal. Sutures = join the bones together: major sutures: Coronal suture = crosses the top of the scalp from ear to ear. Sagittal suture = crosses the skull from anterior to posterior. Lambdoidal suture = separates the parietal and occipital bones (there"s also a squamous suture outlining the temporal bone) Fetal sutures are not tightly joined skull is easy to mold and pass thru birth canal. And then remains loose during childhood for growth of head and brain, but will be knit together by 12 to 18 months. Largest facial bones maxilla, mandible, nasal, lacrimal, palatine, vomer.
