Bone vocab

Question 1

Condyle

Answer 1

a rounded knob at the end of a bone

Question 2

Coracoid/Coranoid

Answer 2

Shaped like a crow’s beak

Question 3

Crest

Answer 3

A narrow but prominent ridge of bone

Question 4

Epichondyle

Answer 4

a prominence on a bone that is above or upon a condyle

Question 5

Facet

Answer 5

A small, smooth, plane surface
usually used for an articulation

Question 6

Fissure

Answer 6

a furrow, cleft or slit

Question 7

Foramen

Answer 7

an opening or hole in a structure

Question 8

Fossa

Answer 8

A small pit, hollow or depression

Question 9

Fovea

Answer 9

A small cup, shaped depression or pit

Question 10

Head

Answer 10

a terminal enlargement of a bone, usually related to a more constricted region (neck)

Question 11

Line

Answer 11

a low ridge

Question 12

Meatus

Answer 12

a passage or channel, but especially the opening of a canal

Question 13

Neck

Answer 13

a narrow connection between the epiphysis and the diaphysis

Question 14

Process

Answer 14

a projection or marked bony prominence

Question 15

Protuberance

Answer 15

a swelling, projecting part or process

Question 16

Ramus

Answer 16

an extension of a bone making an angle with the rest of the structure

Question 17

Sinus

Answer 17

a channel for the passage of blood or lymph or a hollow space in bone or soft tissue

Question 18

spine

Answer 18

a pointed process

Question 19

sulcus

Answer 19

a furrow or groove

Question 20

trochanter

Answer 20

a large, rough process for the attachment of muscles

Question 21

Trochlea

Answer 21

a structure serving as a pulley or a smooth articular surface which is either spool shaped or articulates with a spool-shaped bone

Question 22

Tubercle

Answer 22

a small, rounded process or prominence

Question 23

Tuberosity

Answer 23

a smaller, rough projection