Bone identification vocabulary

What is a process?

any projection or bump

What is a ramus?

An extension of a bone making an angle with the rest of the structure

What processes have tendons or ligaments atttached?

Trochanter, tuberositty, tubercle, crest, line, and spine

What is a trochanter?

Large, rough projections

What is a tuberosity?

Small, rough projection

What is a tubercle?

Small, rounded projection

What is a crest?

A prominent ridge

What is a line?

A low ridge

What projections are formed for articulation with adjacent bones?

Head, neck, condyle, trochlea, and facet

What is a head (of a bone)?

The expanded articulation end of an epiphysis; separated from the shaft by neck

What is a neck (of a bone)?

A narrow connection between epiphysis and diaphysis

What is a condyle?

A smooth, rounded articulate proces

What is a trochlea?

A smooth, grooved articular proces shaped like a pulley

What is a facet?

A small, smooth articular surface

What are depressions (in bones)?

Fossa, Sulcus

What is a fossa?

A shallow depression

What is a sulcus?

A narrow groove

What are openings in the skeletal system?

Foramen, canal, meatus, fissure, sinus

What is a foramen?

A rounded passageway for blood vessels or nerves

What is a canal?

A duct or a channel

what is a meatus?

A passageway through a bone

What is a fissure?

An elongated cleft or slit

What is a sinus?

A chamber within a bone, normally filled with air

What type of bone marking is this?

Acetabulum (socket for femur)

What type of bone marking is this? (hint: posterior view)

Acromion process

What type of bone marking is this?

Alveolar process

What type of bone marking is this?

Body of sternum

What type of bone marking is this?

Capitulum

What type of bone marking is this? (hint: anterior view)

Coracoid process

What type of bone marking is F? (hint: it’s a depression)

Coronoid fossa

What type of bone marking is this? (hint: it’s a passageway)

External acoustic meatus

What bone marking is this (D)? (hint: it’s a type of opening)

Foramen magnum

What bone marking is this? (hint: it’s a depression)

glenoid fossa

What type of bone marking is this (D)? (Hint: it’s a projection)

What type of bone marking is A? (hint: it’s where a muscle/ligament attaches)

Greater tubercle

What type of bone marking is C? (hint: inferior portion of body)

Head (of femur)

What type of bone marking is B? (hint: superior portion of body)

Head (of humerus)

What type of bone marking is A? (hint: it’s in the antebrachial region)

Head (of radius)

What type of bone marking is G? (Hint: it’s a type of prominent ridge)

Iliac crest

What type of bone marking is located posterior inferiorly to A? (Hint: it’s a projection)

Ischial tuberosity

What type of bone marking is A? (Hint: smooth rounded process in the inferior region)

Lateral condyle (of femur)

What type of bone marking is E? (Hint: it’s a small, rounded process inferior to the femur)

lateral condyle (of tibia)

What type of bone marking is found at the epiphysis of the outside ankle bone? (Hint: it’s not on the tibia)

Lateral malleolus

What type of bone marking is E? (hint: it’s a large, rough projection)

lesser trochanter

What type of bone marking B? (hint: it’s a small, rounded projection)

lesser tubercle

What type of bone marking is this? (Hint: it’s in the caudal region)

Mandibular condyle

What type of bone marking is this? (hint: it’s solar plexus)

manubrium

What type of bone marking is this? (Hint: it’s superficial to styloid process)

mastoid process

What type of bone marking is B? (Hint: it’s a smooth, rounded process that articulates with the patella)

Medial condyle (of femur)

What type of bone marking is D? (Hint: it’s inferior to the femur)

Medial condyle (of tibia)

What type of bone marking is B? (Hint: it’s in the talus region)

medial malleolus

What type of bone marking is I? (Hint: it’s on the vomer)

Nasal Septum

What type of bone marking is B? (Hint: it’s an opening)

Obturator foramen

What type of bone marking is A? (Hint: it’s in the brachial region)

olecranon

What type of bone marking is this? (Hint: it’s a depression on the posterior side)

olecranon fossa

What type of bone marking is C? (hint: it’s a saddle)

Sella turcica

What type of bone marking is this? (Hint: it’s on the posterior side)

Spine (on scapula)

What type of bone marking is this? (Hint: it’s a projection aka a what?)

Spinous process

What type of bone marking is this? (hint: it’s deep to the mastoid process)

styloid proces

What type of bone marking is A? (hint: It’s a projection on the anterior side)

tibial tuberosity

What type of bone marking is E? (hint: it’s lateral to the capitulum)

Trochlea

What type of bone marking is B? (hint: it’s in the brachial region)

Trochlear notch

What type of bone marking is this? (hint: it’s an opening)

Vertebral foramen

What type of bone marking is this? (Hint: it’s inferior to the manubrium)

xiphoid process