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ATW 123
Question | Answer |
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vinegar cup | acetabul- |
acatebulum | a depression in the coxal bone that articulates with the head of the femur |
axis | ax- |
axial skeleton | portion of the skeleton down the center of the body that supports the head, neck, & trunk |
budding | -blast |
osteoblast | a cell that forms or builds new bone tissue |
wrist | carp- |
carpals | group of 8 bones in the wrist |
broken | -clast |
osteoclast | a cell that breaks down bone tissue |
knuckle | condyl- |
condyle | a rounded process of bone used for articulation such as the medial & lateral condyles of the femur |
beaklike | corac |
coracoid process | the scapula has a beaklike projection called the coracoid process |
sievelike | cribr- |
cribriform plate | portion of the ethmoid bone with many small openings |
ridge | crist- |
crista galli | bony projection that extends upward from the ethmoid bone into the cranial cavity |
pit | fov- |
fovea capitis | the small pit in the head of the femur |
joint socket | glen- |
glenoid cavity | depression in the scapula that articulates with the head of the humerus |
blood | hema- |
hematoma | a blood clot |
between | inter- |
intervertebral disk | structure located between adjacent vertebra |
inside or within | intra- |
intramembranous bone | bone that forms within sheet-like layers of connective tissue |
passage | meat- |
auditory meatus | canal within the temporal bone that leads to bones of the inner ear |
tooth | odont- |
odontoid process | toothlike process of the second cervical vertebra |
making | poie- |
hemopoiesis | process by which blood cells are formed |
knob | tuber- |
rib tubercle | small rounded process of rib that articulates with thoracic vertebrae |