Surface features of Bones
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RoxanneHoover on June 7, 2011
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Articulations, Extensions and Projections, Depressions, Passages and Cavities
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fissure | A slit through a bone |
| Forman | A hole in a bone for the passage of nerves and blood vessles |
| Fossa | Shallow depression |
| Groove | Narrow depression |
| Meatus | Penetrating hole |
| Sinus | A cavity in a bone (frontal, ethmoidal, sphenoidal and maxillary sinuses) |
| Condyle | Rounded articular process |
| Crest | Prominent narrow ridge |
| Epicondyle | Elevated area on or above the condyle |
| Facet | Smooth, almost flat articular surface |
| Head | Rounded end of a bone |
| Line | Small, narrow ridge |
| Spine | Sharp narrow usually pointed end |
| Trochanter | Large blunt process ( femur only) |
| Tubercle | Small round process |
| Tuberosity | A raised rough area in a bone for muscle attatchment |
| Squama | Flat area on bone |
| Concha (conchae) | Folds of bone in the nasal cavity that increase the airflow by incresing the surface area |
| Fovea | A deep pit |
| Visceral skeleton | Bones that develop from the embryonic gill arch. Ear ossicles and hyoid bone. |
| Canal | A narrow tube , passage or channel |
| Fontanel | The area between the bones of a fetus skull covered by dense Connective tissue |
| Suture | A line left afte two bones fuse together |
| Process | any bony prominence |
| Protuberance | a bony outgrowth or protruding part |
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