RAP Bone Markings

Processes or projections

Extend beyond main body of bone

Depressions

Hollow or concaved areas

Fractures

Break in bone

Condyle

Processes or projections: Round ending

Coracoid or coronoid

Processes or projections: Beaklike/hook projection

Crest

Processes or projections: Ridges

Epicondyle

Processes or projections: Projection above condyle

Facet

Processes or projections: Small and smooth

Hamulus

Processes or projections: hook

Head

Processes or projections: End of a long bone

Horn

Processes or projections: Horn

Line

Processes or projections: Linear elevation

Malleolus

Processes or projections: Club shaped

Protuberance

Processes or projections: prominence

Spine

Processes or projections: Sharp

Styloid

Processes or projections: Long

Trochanter

Processes or projection: Two rounded, and elevated processes of the proximal femur

Tubercle

Processes or projections: Small, rounded, and elevated

Tuberosity

Processes or projections: Large, rounded, and elevated

Meatus

Depressions: Tube like

Notch

Depressions: Indent at bones border

Sinus

Depressions: Hollow space

Sulcus

Depressions: Trench

Groove

Depressions: Shallow linear channel

Fossa

Depressions: Pit, fovea, or hollow space

Foramen

Depressions: Hole in bone for vessels

Fissure

Depressions: Groove

Long bones

Consists of body and two particular ends

Short bones

Chancellor bone with thin butter layer (carpal bone)

Flat bones

Two plates of compact bone (cranium/sternum)

Irregular bones

Uniquely shapped (facial bones vertebrea)

Sesamoid bone

Very small protect bones from wear (largest is patella)

Functional bones

Synarthroses

Amphirarthroses

Diathrosis

Structural bones

Fibrous

Cartilaginous

Synovial