Bones App Flashcards
Tubercle
Small bump
Tuberosity
Large bump
Head
Knob like rounded end of long bone connected to the shaft via a slender region, called the neck
Condyle
Rounded projection at the end of a bone usually articulated with another Bone
Epicondyle
Small riser bump just superior to a condo
Process
Prominent projection may have a secondary descriptor for shape such as styloid for needlelike
Crest
Sharp Ridge like edge of Bone
Fossa
Saucer, like depression
Fovea
Small pit or tiny depression
Facet
Small flat articular surface
Foramen
Hole or opening in a bone for nerves or blood vessels
Meatus
Short tube or passageway within a bone
Sinus
Small cavity in certain cranial or facial bones
How many frontal bones?
Wan
How many bridal bones?
2
How many occipital bones
1
How many temporal bones?
2
How many ethmoid bones
1
How many Sphenoid bones
1
How many ossicle bones?
6
How many vertebrae?
24
How many sacrum
1
How many ribs?
12
How many cervical vertebrae?
7
How many thoracic vertebrae?
12
How many lumbar vertebrae?
Five
How many sacral vertebrae?
Five
How many coccygeal vertebrae?
Three or four
What makes the pectoral girdle
The collarbone and the scapula
What makes the pelvic girdle
The odds coxae, Ilium, ischium and pubic