Depressions And Openings: Allow Blood Vessels And Nerves To Pass Flashcards
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Sinus
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Cavity within a bone filled with air and lines with mucus membranes
Frontal sinus, 4 different bones have sinuses
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Meatus
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Canal - like a passageway
External auditory meatus of temporal bone
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Fossa
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Shallow, basin like depression in a bone, often serving as an articular surface
Mandibular, intercondylar fossa of femur, iliac fossa
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Sulcus/Groove
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Furrow
Radial groove in humerus
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Fissure
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Narrow slit like opening
Superior orbital fissure of sphenoid
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Foramen
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Round and oval opening through a bone
Mental, magnum, and infraorbital foramen
