Bone Markings And Landmarks

Question 1

What is the process of a bone?

Answer 1

Projection of a bone

Question 2

What is the Ramus?

Answer 2

Projection off bone that branches at angle to to the rest of the bone

Question 3

What is the neck?

Answer 3

Narrowing where shaft of a long bone meets the end of a long bone

Question 4

What is the head of a bone?

Answer 4

End of bone that is rounded and expanded

Question 5

What is the facet?

Answer 5

Small smooth nearly flat surface that another bone sits on

Question 6

What is a condyle?

Answer 6

Rounded protuberance at the end of a bone that articulates with a fossa on another bone

Question 7

What is a fossa?

Answer 7

Shallow depression that articulates with a process on another bone

Question 8

What is an epicondyle?

Answer 8

Second rounded projection on top of a rounded condyle projection

Question 9

What is a spine?

Answer 9

Ridge or projection that is slender & pointed

Question 10

What is a foramen?

Answer 10

Rounded hole that through which blood vessels ligaments and nerves pass through

Question 11

What is the head of the bone?

Answer 11

Expanded proximal end of a bone that forms part of a joint