Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Facial Skeleton

Fourteen bones that form the shape of the face, provide sites for muscle attachments, and articulate with the cranium. These bones include the paired maxillary, palatine, zygomatic, lacrimal, nasal, and inferior nasal conchae bones, and the single vomer and mandible. Aka splanchnocranium, viscerocranium.

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skull (... for the cranium and facial skeleton alone.)
alveolare (... for the measurement of facial height.)
splanchnocranium (Portion of the cranium that forms the facial skeleton including the nasal, lacrimal, zygomatic, ...)
alare, alarae (... of the facial skeleton; lateralmost point of the ...)
calvaria (Superior portion of the skull, i.e. the skull without the mandible or upper facial skeleton. ...)