Chapter 7 Flashcards
Types of bones
Short bones
Flat bones
Irregular bones
Sesamoid bones
Sutural bones
Short bones
Cube shaped
Spongy bone tissue surrounded by thin layer of compact bone
Flat bone
Two thin parallel plates of compact bone tissue enclosing spongy bone tissue
Protection and area for muscle attachment
Irregular bone
Complex shape and cannot be grouped into any other category
Varying amount of spongy and compact bone
Sesamoid
Develop in certain tendons where lord of friction, tension and physical stress
Sutural bones
Classified by location rather than shape
Located in sutures between cranial bones
Bone surface markings
Characteristic structural features for specific function
Develop due to force
Depression and opening
Allow passage of soft tissue or formation of joints
Processes
Projections or outgrowth on bone that form joints or attachment point for connective tissues like tendons and ligaments
Types of depressions
Fissure
Foramen
Fossa
Sulcus
Meatus
Types of processes that form joints
Condyle
Facet
Head
Types of processes that form points for connective tissue
Crest
Epicondyle
Line
Spinous process
Trochanter
Tubercle
Tuberosity
Fissure
Narrow slit between adjacent parts of bones through which blood vessels or nerve pass
Foramen
Opening through which blood vessels, nerves, or ligaments pass
Fossa
Shallow depression
Sulcus
Furrow along bone surface that accommodates blood vessel, nerve or tendon
Meatus
Tubelike opening
Condyle
Large, round protuberance with smooth articular surface at end of bone
Facet
Smooth, flat, slightly concave or convex articular surface
Head
Usually rounded articular projection supported on neck of bone
Crest
Prominent ridge or elongated projection
Epicondyle
Typically roughened projection above condyle
Line
Long, narrow ridge or border (less prominent than crest)
Spinous process
Sharp, slender projection
Trochanter
Very large projection
Tubercle
Variable sized rounded projection
Tuberosity
Variably sized projection that had a rough, bumpy surface
Cranial bones
Form cranial cavity
Encloses and protects brain
8 cranial bones
Frontal
2 parietal
2temporal
Occipital
Sphenoid
Ethmoid