anatomical bone terms

Question 1

What does ‘auricular’ refer to?

Answer 1

Ear

Question 2

What is the definition of ‘axis’?

Answer 2

The central line of a body or part, where rotation takes place.

Question 3

What does ‘carotid’ mean?

Answer 3

To put to sleep.

Question 4

What is the meaning of ‘coronoid’?

Answer 4

Shaped like a crown.

Question 5

What does ‘costal’ refer to?

Answer 5

Rib.

Question 6

What is ‘crista galli’?

Answer 6

Crest of a rooster.

Question 7

What does ‘cribriform’ mean?

Answer 7

Sieve-like.

Question 8

What is ‘concha’?

Answer 8

Shell.

Question 9

What does ‘hypoglossal’ refer to?

Answer 9

Under the tongue.

Question 10

What is the meaning of ‘jugular’?

Answer 10

Neck.

Question 11

What does ‘lacrimal’ mean?

Answer 11

A tear (drop).

Question 12

What is ‘magnum’?

Answer 12

Great.

Question 13

What does ‘manubrium’ refer to?

Answer 13

Handle.

Question 14

What is the meaning of ‘mastoid’?

Answer 14

Shaped like breast.

Question 15

What does ‘mental’ mean?

Answer 15

Chin.

Question 16

What is ‘odontoid’?

Answer 16

Tooth-like.

Question 17

What does ‘orbit’ refer to?

Answer 17

Circle, bony socket for the eyeball.

Question 18

What is ‘prominens’?

Answer 18

Projecting.

Question 19

What does ‘petrous’ mean?

Answer 19

Rocky.

Question 20

What is ‘pterygoid’?

Answer 20

Wing-shaped.

Question 21

What does ‘sacrum’ refer to?

Answer 21

Sacred or strong bone.

Question 22

What is ‘sella turcica’?

Answer 22

Turkish saddle.

Question 23

What does ‘sphenoid’ mean?

Answer 23

Wedge-shaped.

Question 24

What is ‘squamous’?

Answer 24

Scale-like.

Question 25

What does 'sternum' refer to?

Answer 25

Chest.

Question 26

What is 'styloid'?

Answer 26

Pencil-like structure.

Question 27

What does 'xiphoid' mean?

Answer 27

Sword-shaped.

Question 28

What is an alveolus?

Answer 28

A deep pit or socket. ## Footnote Plural: alveoli

Question 29

What is a canal?

Answer 29

A 'water-pipe', passageway through a bone.

Question 30

What is a condyle?

Answer 30

A large articulating rounded structure, knuckle.

Question 31

What is a crest?

Answer 31

A prominent ridge-like projection.

Question 32

What is an epicondyle?

Answer 32

An adjacent projection to a condyle.

Question 33

What is a facet?

Answer 33

A small, smooth and shallow articulating surface.

Question 34

What is a fissure?

Answer 34

A cleft; narrow, slit-like opening through a bone.

Question 35

What is a foramen?

Answer 35

A rounded passage through a bone, a hole. ## Footnote Plural: foramina

Question 36

What is a fossa?

Answer 36

A shallow depression, a concavity within a surface.

Question 37

What is a head?

Answer 37

A prominent and rounded epiphysis.

Question 38

What is a line?

Answer 38

A low ridge.

Question 39

What is a linea?

Answer 39

A line.

Question 40

What is a notch?

Answer 40

An indentation.

Question 41

What is a process?

Answer 41

An outgrowth in a bone.

Question 42

What is a protuberance?

Answer 42

A bulging bone feature.

Question 43

What is a ramus?

Answer 43

A branch. ## Footnote Plural: rami

Question 44

What is a sinus?

Answer 44

A hollow space in a bone.

Question 45

What is a spine?

Answer 45

A thorn, sharp or pointed slender process.

Question 46

What is a sulcus?

Answer 46

A groove.

Question 47

What is a trochanter?

Answer 47

A massive projection only found in femur. ## Footnote A runner

Question 48

What is a trochlea?

Answer 48

A pulley.

Question 49

What is a tubercle?

Answer 49

A small prominence, small rounded projection.

Question 50

What is a tuberosity?

Answer 50

A large, rough projection.