Bone Terminology

Question 1

Canal-like passageway

Answer 1

Meatus

Question 2

Round or oval opening through a bone

Answer 2

Foramen

Question 3

Furrow

Answer 3

Groove

Question 4

Rounded Articular Projection

Answer 4

Condyle

Question 5

Bony expansion carried on a narrow neck

Answer 5

Head

Question 6

Sharp, slender, often pointed projection

Answer 6

Spine

Question 7

Small Rounded projection or process

Answer 7

Tubercle

Question 8

Very large blunt irregularly shaped process on femur

Answer 8

Trochanter

Question 9

Large rounded projection may be roughened

Answer 9

Tuberosity

Question 10

Cavity within a bone filled with air and lined with a mucus membrane.

Answer 10

Sinus

Question 11

Shallow basinlike depression in a bone often serving as an articular surface.

Answer 11

Fossa

Question 12

Indentation at the edge of a structure

Answer 12

Notch

Question 13

Narrow slitlike opening

Answer 13

Fissure

Question 14

Armlike bar of bone

Answer 14

Ramus

Question 15

Smooth nearly flat articular surface

Answer 15

Facet

Question 16

Any bony prominence

Answer 16

Process

Question 17

Raised area on or above a condyle

Answer 17

Epicondyle

Question 18

Narrow ridge of bone, less prominent

Answer 18

Line

Question 19

Narrow ridge of bone usually prominent

Answer 19

Crest