Glossary Of Bony Landmarks

Question 1

What is a fovea?

Answer 1

Pit like depression

Question 2

What is a sulcus/groove?

Answer 2

Furrow like depression. Vessels, nerves & tendons can lay over it.

Question 3

What is a fossa?

Answer 3

Basin like depression

Question 4

What is a cavity ?

Answer 4

Open spacious depression

Question 5

What is a notch?

Answer 5

C or U shaped depression

Question 6

What is a fissure?

Answer 6

Slit like/crack like opening between adjacent bones

Question 7

What is a foramen?

Answer 7

Hole like opening

Question 8

What is a canal?

Answer 8

Tube like opening

Question 9

What is a process?

Answer 9

Prominent projections of bones

Question 10

What are the two different types of bone processes?

Answer 10

Articulating & non articulating

Question 11

Name 3 articulating processes of bone

Answer 11

Head
Condyle
Facet

Question 12

What is a condyle?

Answer 12

Large rounded articulating process at the end of some bone

Question 13

What is a facet?

Answer 13

Smooth, flat articulating process

Question 14

Name 7 non articulating processes

Answer 14

• epicondyle
• trochanter
• tubercle
• tuberosity
• Crest
• line
• spine

Question 15

What is a epicondyle?

Answer 15

Non articulating process
Smaller projection above condyle
Attachment site for muscles & ligaments

Question 16

What is a trochanter?

Answer 16

Non articulating process
Blunt projection only on femur
attachment for muscles

Question 17

What is a tubercle?

Answer 17

Non articulating process

Small knob like rounded process

Question 18

What is a tuberosity?

Answer 18

Non articulating bone process

Larger, rounded, roughened process

Question 19

What is a crest?

Answer 19

Non articulating process with a prominent border or ridge

Question 20

What is a line process of a bone?

Answer 20

Non articulating process with a less prominent ridge compared to a crest process

Question 21

What is a spine process of a bone?

Answer 21

Non articulating process

Sharp slender process