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Skeletal system
Term | Definition |
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Aperture | Opening or orifice in the bone |
Arch | Prominent bridgelike bony structure |
Articulation | Area where the bones are joined to each other |
Bones | Mineralized structures of the body that protect internal soft tissues and serve as a biomechanical basis for movement |
Canal | Opening in bone that is long, narrow, and tubelike |
Condyle | Oval bony prominence typically located at articulations |
Conru | Small hornlike prominence |
Crest | Roughened border or ridge on the bone surface |
Eminence | Tubercle or rounded elevation on a bony surface |
Fissure | Opening in bone that is narrow and cleft-like |
Foramen/foramina | Short, window-like opening in bone |
Fossa/fossae | Depression on a bony surface |
Head | Rounded surface projecting from a bone by a neck |
Incisura | Indentation or notch at the edge of the bone |
Joint | Site of a junction or union between two or more bones |
Line | Straight, small ridge of bone |
Meatus | Opening or canal in the bone |
Notch | Indentation at the edge of a bone |
Ostium/ostia | Small opening in bone |
Perforation | Abnormal hole in a hollow organ, such as in the wall of a sinus |
Plate | Flat structure of bone |
Primary sinusitis | Inflammation of the sinus |
Process | General term for any prominence on a bony surface |
Secondary sinusitis | Inflammation of the sinus related to another source |
Spine | Abrupt, small prominence of bone |
Sulcus/sulci | Shallow depression or groove such as that on a bony structure |
Suture | Generally immovable articulation in which bones are joined by fibrous tissue |
Tubercle | Eminence or small, rounded elevation on the bony surface |
Tuberosity | Large, often rough prominence on the surface of bone |