Boney Features

Question 1

What type of bone is the humerus?

Answer 1

Typical long bone

Question 2

What type of bone are the metacarpals?

Answer 2

Miniature long

Question 3

What type of bone is the clavical?

Answer 3

Modified long bone

Question 4

What type of bone are the carpals?

Answer 4

Short

Question 5

What type of bone is the sternum?

Answer 5

Flat

Question 6

What type of bone is the vertebra?

Answer 6

Irregular

Question 7

What type of bone is the patella?

Answer 7

Sesamoid

Question 8

What are the 2 different types of bones according to gross structure

Answer 8

Compact bone/ spongy bone

Question 9

What are the 5 types of articular elevations? Give examples and describe them.

Answer 9

Head- rounded expansion on a narrow neck (Humerus)
Capitulum- small rounded elevation (humerus)
Condyle- large rounded elevation (femur)
Trochlea- pulley shaped (humerus)
Facet- flat (rib)

Question 10

What are the 2 types of articular depressions? Give examples and describe.

Answer 10

Fossa- shallow (Glenoid fossa)
Notch- deep (trochlear notch)

Question 11

What are the 4 types of linear elevations? Give example and describe

Answer 11

Line- smooth linear elevation (intercondylar line, Soleal line)
Ridge- rough linear elevation (supracondylar ridge)
Crest- broad linear elevation (iliac crest)
Lip- raised margins of crest (iliac crest

Question 12

What are the 6 types of rounded elevations? Give examples and describe.

Answer 12

Tubercle- small projections (dorsal tubercle of radius)
Trochanter- localised large projection (femur)
Tuberosity- large rough rounded projection (ischial tuberosity)
Epicondyle- non articular projection on or above the articular condyle (femur)
Ramus- broad arm like bar of bone (mandible)
Protuberance- small bony projection (mental protuberance)

Question 13

What are the 4 types of sharp elevations? Give an example and description.

Answer 13

Spine/process- pointed projection (vertebra)
Styloid- peg shaped (skull, radius)
Cornu- horn like (sacrum)
Ala- wing like (sacrum)

Question 14

What are the 4 types of depressions? Give examples and descriptions.

Answer 14

Pit/fovea- small depression (femur)
Fossa- large, shallow basin like depression (illiac fossa)
Groove/ sulcus- long furrow (inter turbercular/ sulus of humerus)
Sinus- cavity within bone (maxillary sinus)

Question 15

What are the 5 types of openings? Give examples and descriptions

Answer 15

Foramen- hole or opening in bone (foramen magnum)
Canal- tunnel through the bone (sacral/ mandibular canal)
Meatus- narrow passage (external auditory meatus)
Hiatus- aperture (sacral hiatus)
Fissure- narrow slit like opening (petrotympanic fissure)