NCLEX-RN › Bone Identification
What structures of the skull form the cheek bones?
A patient presents to the ER complaining of "pain in his heart." When the nurse asks him to point to the area that he feels the pain, he places his finger on the bony protuberance just below his rib cage. Seeing this, the nurse has reason to suspect that his pain may be gastrointestinal or musculoskeletal in origin as well as cardiac. What bony protuberance is this patient likely touching?
Which of the following is the name for the foramen that forms the ear canal?
All of the following bones form the nasal cavity except __________.
Which of the following is not a fossa of the scapula?
Which of the following structures passes through the superior orbital fissure?
Which of the following bony landmarks of the skull is an attachment point for the splenius capitis, the longissimus capitis, and the posterior belly of the digastric muscle?
You are taking care of a 22-year old basketball player who fractured his clavicle while playing in a game. Which of the following blood vessels is most likely to be compromised by the fractured bone?
Which of the following is the name of the bony landmark that forms the ridge of the brow?
What suture joins the frontal bone to the parietal bones?