Facial Bones

The face is more extensive than the cranium in most of the domestic animals. Some of these bones involved in the formation of nasal cavity.

The facial bones are named as following –

  1. Nasal bone
  2. Premaxilla bone
  3. Maxilla bone
  4. Palatine bone
  5. Pterygoid bone
  6. Lacrimal bone
  7. Malar bone or Zygomatic bone
  8. Turbinate bone
  9. Vomer bone
  10. Mandible bone
  11. Hyoid bone

Vomer, Mandible and Hyoid bones are single bones and remaining facial bones are paired.

Skull bone of animals (ox) are facial bones and cranial bones
Skull bone in Ox
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