bone surface features

Question 1

what are the four basic surface feature categories?

Answer 1

elevations, depressions, tunnels or passageways and facets

Question 2

when do the surface features of bone become prominent?

Answer 2

during and after puberty

Question 3

what are the types of osseous linear elevations?

Answer 3

the line, ridge and crest

Question 4

what are the types of rounded osseous elevations?

Answer 4

tubercle, protuberance, trochanter, tuber or tuberosity and malleolus

Question 5

what are the categories of sharp osseous elevations?

Answer 5

spine and process

Question 6

what are the categories of osseous depressions?

Answer 6

linear and rounded depressions

Question 7

what are the categories of osseous linear depressions?

Answer 7

notch or incisure, groove and sulcus

Question 8

what are the categories of rounded osseous depressions?

Answer 8

the fovea and fossa

Question 9

what are the names given to openings on the surface of bone?

Answer 9

ostium or orifice and hiatus

Question 10

what are the names given to osseous ostia which completely penetrate bone?

Answer 10

foramen or canal

Question 11

what is the definition of an osseous foramen?

Answer 11

an ostium passing completely through a thin region of bone

Question 12

what is the definition of an osseous canal?

Answer 12

ostium passing completely through a thick region of bone

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

meatus

Question 14

what is the definition of an osseous fissure?

Answer 14

irregular slit-like or crack-like appearance between the surfaces of adjacent bones

Question 15

what are the categories of osseous facets?

Answer 15

flat facets and rounded facets

Question 16

what are the categories of rounded osseous facets?

Answer 16

articular heads and articular condyles