Extra Credit

Question 1

Canal or meatus

Answer 1

relatively narrow tubular channel, opening to a passageway. (Carotid canal, external meatus)

Question 2

Fissure

Answer 2

Groove or cleft

Question 3

Foramen (opening)

Answer 3

Natural hole (hole or opening)

Question 4

Fossa (trench)

Answer 4

Shallow depressed area. (Mandibular fossa)

Question 5

Groove or sulcus

Answer 5

Extended “valley” or natural depression for routing

Question 6

Notch

Answer 6

Deep indentation, especially on the border of a bone. (Radial notch)

Question 7

Condyle (knuckle)

Answer 7

rounded, knuckle-shaped projection: concave or convex. (Con-dyles of the femur)

Question 8

Epicondyle (epi = above)

Answer 8

a projection just above a condyle

Question 9

Facet (little face)

Answer 9

small, flat surface. Any smooth surface of a bone

Question 10

Head (caput)

Answer 10

Round head of a long bone

Question 11

Trochela (pulley)

Answer 11

Spiraled sea shell (hinge joint)

Question 12

Crest (lip or ridge)

Answer 12

wide, prominent ridge, often on the long border of a bone (Lip/lining)

Question 13

Line or Linea

Answer 13

Extended raised ridge

Question 14

Eminence (to stand out)

Answer 14

projecting part of a bone, especially a projection from the surface of a bone. (Intercondylar eminence of tibia)

Question 15

Malcolus (hammer)

Answer 15

Hammer-shaped rounded process

Question 16

Spine (spinous process)

Answer 16

sharp, elongated process (project posterior)

Question 17

Sustentaculum

Answer 17

process that supports (supporting the material)

Question 18

Trochanter

Answer 18

either of the two large, roughly rounded processes found near the neck of the femur (large boney projection)

Question 19

Tubercle (small lump)

Answer 19

small, roughly rounded process (small boney projection)

Question 20

Tuberosity (lump)

Answer 20

medium-sized, roughly rounded, elevated process (medium boney projection)