Bone and Bone Marking Vocabulary

Skull:

• Cranial bones

  • Frontal bone

  • Parietal bone

  • Occipital bone

  • Temporal bone

  • Ethmoid bone

  • Sphenoid bone

• Sutures

  • Coronal

  • Sagittal

  • Lambdoid

  • Squamous

• Markings on the cranial bones

  • Styloid process

  • Mastoid process

  • Occipital condyles

  • Foramen magnum

  • External acoustic meatus

  • Zygomatic arch

  • Mandibular fossa

• Facial bones

  • Nasal

  • Lacrimal

  • Zygomatic

  • Vomer

  • Maxilla

  • Mandible

  • Palatine

• Facial bone markings

  • Lacrimal fossa

  • Mental foramen

  • Condylar process

  • Coronoid process

  • Mandibular Fossa

• Misc. bones

  • hyoid

Vertebrae:

• Atlas

• Axis

• Cervical

• Thoracic

• Lumbar

• Sacrum

• Coccyx

• markings

  • Spinous, transverse, superior articular, inferior articular process

  • Lamina

  • Pedicle

  • Body of vertebrae

  • Vertebral foramen

• Rib

• Sternum

  • Manubrium

  • Body of Sternum

  • Xiphoid Process

Appendicular skeleton:

• Pectoral girdle bones and markings

  • Clavicle

  • Scapula

  • Glenoid cavity (fossa)

  • Acromion process

  • Coracoid process

  • Scapular spine

Upper arm bones and markings

• Humerus

  • Trochlea

  • Medial and lateral epicondyles

  • Olecranon and coronoid fossa

  • capitulum

  • Radius

  • Radial tuberosity

• Ulna

  • Olecranon and coronoid process

  • Trochlear notch

• Hand

• Carpals, metacarpals and phalanges

Pelvic girdle bones and markings

• Ilium

  • Iliac crest

  • Sciatic notch

• Pubis

  • Acetabulum

• Ischium

  • Obturator foramen

Upper leg bones and markings

• Femur

  • Greater and lesser trochanter

  • Medial and lateral condyles

  • Medial and lateral epicondyles

• Patella

Lower leg bones and markings

• Tibia

  • Tibial tuberosity

  • Medial malleolus

• Fibula

  • Lateral malleolus

• Foot

  • Calcaneus

  • Talus

  • Tarsals

  • Metatarsals and phalanges