Anatomy study note · Head and neck
Facial bones of the orbit and nasal cavity
Small facial bones: the lacrimal bones (medial orbital wall, lacrimal groove), the palatine bones (back of the hard palate), the vomer (lower nasal septum) and the inferior conchae (separate bones on the lateral nasal walls).
Key points
- Lacrimal: lacrimal sac groove.
- Palatine: back of the hard palate.
- Vomer: nasal septum (separates the choanae).
- Inferior concha: separate bone.
- Lacrimal, vomer, palatine: membrane. Inferior concha: cartilage.
- Bone: type I collagen + hydroxyapatite.
- Osteoblast builds, osteocyte maintains, osteoclast resorbs.
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Written from
- Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1487–1489, 1575–1576, 1735
- Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 10, PDF pp. 140–141
- BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 7, PDF pp. 121–125, 130
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