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Chapter 7: Skeleton Flashcards

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Crest

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Narrow ridge of bone; usually prominent

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Trochanter

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Very large, blunt, irregularly shaped process (only example is femur)

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Line

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Narrow ridge of bone *less prominent then a crest

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Tubercle

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Small rounded projection or process

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Epicondyle

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Raised area on or above a condyle

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Spine

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Sharp, slender, often pointed projection

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Process

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Any bone prominence

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Head

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Bony expansion carried on a narrow neck

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Facet

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Smooth, nearly flat articulate surface

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Condyle

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Rounded articulate projection

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Ramus

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Armlike bar of bone

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Groove

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Furrow

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Fissure

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Narrow, slitlike opening

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Foramen

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Round or oval opening through a bone

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Notch

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Indentation at the edge of a structure

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Meatus

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Canal-like passageway

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Sinus

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Cavity within a bone, filled with air and lined with mucous membrane

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Fossa

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Shallow, basinlike depression in a bone often serving as an articulate surface

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Long bones

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Longer than they are wide

Ex. Humerus, femur, radius, ulna, metacarpals, phalanges

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Short bones

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Cube shaped; about equal in length and width

Ex. Carpals, tarsals

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Flat bones

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Thin, flat

Ex. Bones of the cranium, sternum, ribs, scapulae

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Sutural bones

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Small flat bones located within the sutures of cranial bones

Ex. Where the fontanels existed in the baby

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Irregular bones

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Complex shapes

Ex. Vertebrae, facial bones, vocal bones, calcaneus

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Sesamoid bones

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Develops within tendons, protect and increase mechanical effect of tendon by changing the direction of pull

Ex. Patellar of knee, pisiform of the carpal

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Tuberous it’s

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Large rounded projection

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