Chapter 7 A&P words

acetabul

vinegar cup

acetabulum

depression of the hip bone that articulates with the head of the femur

ax

axis

axial skeleton

\-bones of the skull, vertebral column, ribs, and sternum.

blast, bud

a growing organism in early stages:

osteoblast

\-cell that will form bone tissue.

canal

channel

canaliculus

tubular passage

carp

wrist

carpals

wrist bones

clast

break

osteoclast

cell that will form bone tissue.

clav

bar

clavicle

bone that articulates with the sternum and scapula.

condyl

knob, knuckle

condyle

rounded, bony process.

corac

a crows beak

coracoid process-

beaklike process of the scapula.

cribr

sleve

cribriform plate

\-portion of the ethmoid bone with many small openings.

fov

pit

fovea capitis-

pit in the head of a femur.

crist

crest

crista galli

bony ridge that projects upward into the cranial cavity.

glen

joint socket

glenoid cavity-

depression in the scapula that articulates with the head of a humerus

inter

among, between

intervertebral disc-

structure between vertebrae.

intra

inside

intramembranous bone

\-bone that forms within sheetlike masses of connective tissue.

lamell

thin plate

lamella

thin, bony plate.

meat

passage

external acoustic meatus

\-canal of the temporal bone that leads inward to parts of the ear.

odont

tooth

odontoid process

\-toothlike process of the second cervical vertebra.

pole

make, produce

hematopoiesis

\-process that forms blood cells