Exam 1-Bone Surface Features

Question 1

What are the four basic surface feature categories?

Answer 1

elevations, depressions, tunnels or passageways and facets

Question 2

What are the types of osseous elevations?

Answer 2

linear, round, or sharp

Question 3

What are the types of osseous linear elevation?

Answer 3

the line, ridge,and crest

Question 4

What is an example of the slightest type of osseous linear elevation?

Answer 4

transverse lines of the sternum

Question 5

What are the types of rounded osseous elevations?

Answer 5

tubercle, trochanter, protuberance, tuber or tuberosity, and malleolus.

Question 6

What is the definition of an osseous malleolus?

Answer 6

a hammerhead-like elevation of the surface of bone

Question 7

What are the categories of sharp osseous elevations?

Answer 7

spine and process

Question 8

What is the definition of the osseous elevation called “spine”?

Answer 8

a thorn-like elevation from the surface of bone

Question 9

What is the definition of an osseous process?

Answer 9

a relatively sharp bony projection from the surfaceof bone with an increased length

Question 10

What are the categories of osseous depressions?

Answer 10

liner and rounded depression

Question 11

What are the catgories of osseous linear depressions?

Answer 11

notch or incisure, groove, and sulcus

Question 12

What is the definition of an osseous groove?

Answer 12

a long furrow of variabble depth on the surface of the bone

Question 13

What is the definition of an osseous sulcus?

Answer 13

a wide groove of variable length and depth on the surface of bone

Question 14

What are the categories of rounded osseous depressions?

Answer 14

the fovea and fossa

Question 15

What is the definition of an osseous fovea?

Answer 15

a shallow depression of variable circumference on the surface of bone

Question 16

What is the definiton of an osseous fossa?

Answer 16

a deep depression of variable circumference of the surface of bone

Question 17

What are the names given to openings on the surface of bone?

Answer 17

ostium or orifice and hiatus

Question 18

What is the definition of an osseous hiatus?

Answer 18

an irregular opening on the surface of bone

Question 19

What are the names given to osseous ostia which completely penetrate bone?

Answer 19

foramen or canal

Question 20

What is the defintion of an osseous foramen?

Answer 20

an ostium passing completely through a thin region of bone

Question 21

What is the defintion of an osseous canal?

Answer 21

an ostium passing completely through a thick region of bone

Question 22

What is the name given to an ostium which does not completely penetrate through a region of bone but appears as a blind-ended passageway?

Answer 22

meatus

Question 23

What is the defintion of an osseous fissure?

Answer 23

an irregular slit-like or crack-like appearance between the surfaces of adjacent bones

Question 24

What are the categories of ossesous facets?

Answer 24

flat and rounded facets

Question 25

What are examples of a flat osseous facet?

Answer 25

the articular facets of most zygapophyses of the vertebral column

Question 26

What are the categories of rounded osseous facets?

Answer 26

articular heads and articular condyles

Question 27

What is the definition of an osseous condyle

Answer 27

a knuckle-shaped surface on bone for articulation