Bone Markings 2
Terms
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- Large rounded projection; may be roughened
- Tuberosity
- Narrow ridge of bone; usually prominent
- Crest
- Very large, blunt, irregularly shaped process. (Only examples are on the femur)
- Trochanter
- Small rounded projection or process
- Tubercle
- Sharp, slender, often pointed projection
- Spine
- Bony expansion carried on a narrow neck
- Head
- Smooth, nearly flat aricular surface
- Facet
- Rounded articular projection
- Condyle
- Armlike bar of bone
- Ramus
- Space within a bone, filled with air and lined with mucous membrane
- Sinus
- Canal like passageway
- Meatus
- Shallow, basinlike depression in a bone, often serving as an articular surface
- Fossa
- Narrow, slitlike opening
- Fissure
- Round or oval opening through a bone
- Foramen (Foramina = Pleural)
- A groove or furrow in a bone
- Sulcus
- The flat portion of a bone
- Squama
- A lateral fold of bone that creates a more efficient circulation of inhaled air, by increasing surface area.
- Concha
- Spaces covered by tough membranes (connective tissue) between the bones of an infants skull
- Fontanel
- Skeletal elements derived from embryonic gill arches. They include the hyoid bones and ear ossicles
- Visceral Skeleton
- A depression or pit
- Fovea
- A line remaining after two bones have joined together and fused
- Suture
- Wing
- Ala
- A horn shaped structure
- Cornu