5 Interesting Facts About Your Head!

You have 3 bones in each ear

Hammer (malleus) attaches to the eardrum, anvil (incus) is in the middle, and the stirrup (stapes) attaches to the membrane covered opening connecting the middle ear to inner ear

You have 22 bones in your skull

8 bones in the cranium (1x ethmoid; 1x frontal; 1x occipital; 1x sphenoid; 2x parietal; 2x temporal) and 14 bones in the face (2x inferior nasal concha; 2x lacrimal; 2x maxilla; 2x nasal; 2x plantine; 2x zygomatic; 1x mandible; 1x vomer) 

You have 9 muscles in each ear

3 extrinsic muscles (anterior, superior and posterior auricular), 6 intrinsic muscles (helicis major; helicis minor; tragicus; antitragicus; transverse, and oblique muscles)

 You have 6 muscles in each eye

Medial, lateral, superior and inferior rectus, and superior and inferior oblique

You have 12 nerves that come directly from your brain

12 cranial nerves (CN I: olfactory; CN II: optic; CN III: oculomotor; CN IV: trochlear; CN V: trigeminal; CN VI: abducens; CN VII: facial; CN VIII: vestibulocochlear; CN IX: glossopharyngeal; CN X: vagus; CN XI: accessory; CN XII: hypoglossal)