the skull is made up of 22 different bones eight cranial bones that enclose your brain within the neurocranium and 14 facial skeleton bones there are also six ear bones with the exception of the mandible the bones of the skull are joined by sutures which are a kind of joint that is sin arthro do in other words it can't move the eight cranial bones include one occipital bone ones Fino it bone one ethmoid bone one frontal bone a pair of parietal bones and a pair of temporal bones the occipital bone is found at the back of the skull the sphenoid bone can be found in the middle and fear your portion of the neurocranium and it kind of looks like a butterfly it is in front of the temporal bone and is one of the seven bones that articulate to form the orbit the other six are the frontal bone the lacrimal bone the ethmoid bone the zygomatic bone the maxillary bone and the Palatine bone the ethmoid bone is found between your eyes located at the roof of the nose and separates the nasal cavity from the brain the frontal bone is the bone of your forehead it has two portions the vertical portion and also the horizontally oriented orbital portion the remaining four bones are a pair of parietal bones and a pair of temporal bones the parietal bones are joined together at the top of the skull together they form the top and sides of the neurocranium each bone is roughly quadrilateral in shape the temporal bones can be found at the sides and base of the skull they are overlaid by what we call the temples it is inside the petrous part of the temporal bone that we find the ossicles these are the bones of the middle ear and are the smallest bones in your body a set of three ossicles is found on each side of your head so there are six ossicles in total these bones include the hammer anvil and stirrup also called the malleus incus and stapes the ear canal which joins the outer and middle ears is known as the external acoustic meatus there is also the internal acoustic meatus which is a tube running from the inner ear to the back of the skull to what's called the posterior cranial fossa the three fossae of this goal will be discussed in a later video so those were the eight cranial bones again these included the occipital bone the sphenoid bone the ethmoid bone the frontal bone a pair of parietal bones and a pair of temporal bones for the facial bones the facial bones include the mandible the vomer a pair of maxillae a pair of palatine bones a pair of nasal bones a pair of nasal concha a pair of zygomatic bones and a pair of lacrimal bones the mandible is your jaw bone it is the largest bone in the human face and is the only moveable bone in the skull apart from the ossicles the other unpaired facial bone is the vomer which forms the inferior part of the nasal septum and articulates with the sphenoid ethmoid palatine bones and maxillary bones a pair of maxillae are fused together at the inner maxillary suture to form the bone of the upper jaw this includes the hard palate in the front of your mouth the two palatine bones together with the maxilla comprised the hard palate they are located at the back of the nasal cavity the pair of nasal bones formed the bridge of the nose and are joined at the internal suture the nasal concha are thin bony elements forming the upper chambers of the nasal cavities they are composed of three pairs the inferior middle and superior concha pneumatic bones or your cheekbones articulate with the maxilla temporal bone sphenoid bone and frontal bone the lacrimal bone is a small bone in the front of the medial wall of the orbit if you liked this video like and subscribe you can also support me by following the link to my patreon if you have any topics you'd like me to cover please leave a comment