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Merrill's Chapter 3
Bone Markings and Features
Question | Answer |
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Condyle | Rounded process at an articular extremity. |
coracoid or coronoid | Beaklike or crownlike process |
CREST | Ridgelike process. |
EPICONDYLE | Projection above a condyle. |
FACET | small smooth surfaced process for articulation with another structure. |
HAMULUS | HOOK SHAPED PROCESS |
HEAD | EXPANDED END OF A LONG BONE |
HORN | HORNLIKE PROCESS ON A BONE |
LINE | LESS PROMINANT RIDGE THAN A CREST: A LINEAR ELEVATION |
MALLEOLUS | CLUB SHAPED PROCESS |
protuberance | projeccting part or prominence |
spine | sharp process |
styloid | long pointed process |
trochanter | either of two large roudned and elevated processes located at junction of neck and shaft of femur. |
tubercle | small rounded and elevaated process |
tuberosity | large rounded and elevated process. |
fissure | cleft or deep groove |
foramen | hole in a bone for transmission of blood vessels and nerves. |
fossa | pit, fovea, or hollow space. |
groove | shallow linear channel |
meatus | tubelike passageway running within a bone. |
notch | indentation into border of a bone |
sinus | recess, groove, cavity or hollow space. |
sulcus | furrow, trench, or fissurelike depression. |