ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Examples include the skull and rib bones. Flat bones have marrow, but they do not have a bone marrow cavity. The skull is the bony structure of the head and face. The cranium surrounds the brain with the temporal, frontal, parietal and occipital bones.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are flat bones in the skull (occipital, parietal, frontal, nasal, lacrimal, and vomer), the thoracic cage (sternum and ribs), and the pelvis (ilium, ischium, and pubis). The function of flat bones is to protect internal organs such as the brain, heart, and pelvic organs.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most of the bones of the cranium are flat bones.

Detailed explanation-4: -The flat bones are: the occipital, parietal, frontal, nasal, lacrimal, vomer, hip bone (coxal bone), sternum, ribs, and scapulae. These bones are composed of two thin layers of compact bone enclosing between them a variable quantity of cancellous bone, which is the location of red bone marrow.

Detailed explanation-5: -No, the mandible is not a flat bone. It is characterized as an irregular bone.