Bone Surface Features Flashcards
What are the four basic surface feature categories?
Elevations, depressions, tunnels or passageways, and facets
What are the types of osseous elevations?
Linear, rounded, and sharp
What are the types of rounded osseous elevations?
Tubercle, protuberance, trochanter, tuber or tuberosity, and malleolus
What are the categories of sharp osseous elevations?
Spine and process
What are the categories of osseous depressions?
Linear and rounded depressions
What are the categories of osseous linear depressions?
Notch or incisure, groove, and sulcus
What are the categories of rounded osseous depressions?
The fovea and fossa
What are the names given to openings on the surface of bone?
Ostium or orifice and hiatus
What is the definition of an osseous ostium?
A round or oval opening on the surface of bone
What is the definition of an osseous hiatus?
An irregular opening on the surface of bone
What is the definition of an osseous foramen?
An ostium passing completely through a thin region of bone
What is the definition of an osseous canal?
An ostium passing completely through a thick region of bone
What is the name given to an ostium which does not completely penetrate through a region of bone but appears as a blind-ended passageway?
Meatus
What is the definition of an osseous fissure?
An irregular slit-like or crack-like appearance between the surfaces of adjacent bones
What are the categories of osseous facets?
Flat facets and rounded facets
