The Head and Neck

This chapter provides a pictorial description of the various constituents of the head and neck. It starts with describing the fetal skull providing anterior, lateral, superior, and basal descriptions. The occipital is discussed with identification and orientation of the pars squama, pars lateralis, and pars basilaris. A comparison between the left perinatal scapula and the right pars lateralis from the same skeleton is also given. This chapter provides notes on metrics, Fazekas and Ko´sa, and Scheuer and MacLaughlin-Black. It then describes the temporal using an account on pars squama, postnatal growth and fusion, and notes on metrics. The principal components, orientation, and identification of the sphenoid, right fetal and right perinatal nasal, frontal, right perinatal ethmoid labyrinth, inferior nasal, lacrimal, perinatal vomal, zygomatic, maxilla, palatine, mandible, and hyoid are also elaborated along with metrics. It mentions the source used for the description of each constituent. This chapter also provides a morphological summary at the end of describing every constituent.