Bony Landmarks Flashcards
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Openings:
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Allow passage of nerves, vessels, muscles, and tendons through holes and channels:
Sinus, fissure, foramen, meatus, canal
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Depressions:
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Basins and channels that house muscles, tendons, nerves, and vessels.
Fossa and sulcus or groove
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Projections:
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Form joints.
Condyle, head, facet, process, trochlea
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Attachment sites:
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Long and narrow sites: crest, line, ridge
rounded: tubercle, tuberosity, trochanter
other prominences: epicondyles, processes, spines
