Bone Markings Quiz A&P 1 - McDowell

I am a narrow slit or cleft in a bone.

Fissure

What is a foramen?

Opening or hole

I am a shallow depression for the attachment of muscle or articulation

Fossa

What is a meatus?

Tube like passageway or opening

I am a condyle describe me

Small rounded articular process

What is a ramus?

A small branch for articulation

I am a spine, what kind of bone marking am I?

Pointed process

I am a prominent ridge, what is my other name?

Crest

I am an epicondyle, where am I usually situated?

Above a condyle

I am a rounded articular projection supported on the neck of a bone

Head

I am a trochanter, what am I?

Very large projection

I am a small rounded projection for muscle attachment

Tubercle

What is a tuberosity?

Large roughened projection

What end of the clavicle articulates with the sternum and what is its shape

Sternal end – blunt

On which bone is the glenoid fossa?

Humerus

On the scapula which bone process is the coracoid process?

Finger like projection, anterior, close to ribs

On which surface of the scapula is the spine, anterior or posterior?

Posterior

Where is the surgical neck on the humerus

Just below head, center of bone

Where is the trochlea on the humerus

bump on medial side, anterior

Where is the capitulum on the humerus

bump on lateral side, anterior

Where is the deltoid tuberosity on the humerus

rough raised part of diaphysis, lateral

I am the external auditory meatus, Which bone am I in?

temporal bone

I am the sell turcica, which bone am I in?

ethmoid

I am the superior nasal concha, which bone am I in?

ethmoid

I am a small branch

ramus

I am the foramen magnum, which bone am I in?

occipital

I am a facet, which type of bone am I typically found in?

vertebra

I am the glenoid fossa, which bone am I in?

scapula

I am the tibial tuberosity, where am I?

On the anterior, proximal tibia

I am the obturator foramen, which 2 bones am I made from?

Ischium and pubis

I am the anterior portion of the skull and the frontal lobe of the brain sits on me, what am I?

Anterior cranial fossa