The document outlines the bones that make up the human skull, including the frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid, nasal, maxilla, palatine, zygomatic, and mandible bones. It describes how the skull can be viewed from different angles including superior, posterior, anterior, and lateral views. It also notes the major sutures of the skull and provides brief descriptions of the shape and bones that make up the different parts of the skull.

1. Skull

2. • Frontal Bone (1)
• Parietal bone (2)
• Occipital bone (1)
• Temporal bone (2)
• Mastoid
• process
• Sphenoid bone (1)
• Ethmoid bone (1)
• Inferior nasal concha (2)
• Lacrimal bone (2)
• Vomer (1)
• Nasal bone (2)
• Maxilla (2)
• Palatine bone (2)
• Zygomatic bone (2)
• Mandible (1)

3. • The major sutures to identify are the:
• coronal
• lambdoid
• sagittal

4. The whole skull can be studied from the outside or
externally in different ways
• Superior view or norma verticalis
• Posterior view or norma occipitalis
• Anterior view or norma frontalis
• Lateral view or norma lateralis
• Inferior view or norma basalis

5. • Shape: Oval in shape
• Bones: Frontal, occipital and parietal bone

6. • Shape: convex upwards and flattened below
• Bones: Temporal, occipital and parietal
bone

7. Shape: Oval in shape
Bones: Frontal,maxillae,nasal bones,zygometic and
mandible

8. • Bones: Frontal, occipital and parietal bone
,sphenoid,zygomatic,Temporal,mendible,maxila,nasal

9. • Contents: Hard palate, alveolar arches and
foramen magnum

10. • Internal surface of the base of skull presents natural
subdivisions into anterior, middle and posterior cranial
fossae.