Lab 1 - Human Skeleton Flashcards
condyle
a large rounded articulating knob. helps to form a joint.
facet
a flattened or shallow articulating surface (on vertebrae, rib)
Fovea
A small rounded depression or pit (eye)
Foramen
an opening through a bone
Fossa
A rounded depression
Head
A prominent, rounded, articulating proximal end of a bone
Meatus
a passageway or tunnel through a bone
Pedicle
a stalk or base of a structure
Process
a projection on a bone
Ramus
part of a bone that forms an angle with the main body of the bone
Suture
a junction between flat bone
Sinus
a cavity or hollow space in a bone
Tubercle
a lump on a bone for muscle attachment
give an example of a fovea
small depression in the eye
give an example of a condyle
2 bumps on the femur that attach to the knee
give an example of a facet
on rib, vertebrae
Give an example of a bone with a head
radius, rib
Give an example of a bone with a ramus
mandible
Give 3 examples of bones with a fossa
- glenoid—cavity of the scapula (for the humerus to attach)
- Radial and coronoid fossae of the humerus
- iliac fossa
Give 3 examples of a foramen
- Obturator foramen (opening between ischium and pubis on pelvic girdle)
- Vertebral foramen (on all 3 vertebrae)
- Transverse foramen (ONLY on cervical vertebrae)
Give 2 examples of a meatus
-in the skull
-external acoustic meatus of the ear
give 2 examples of processes
-spinous process
-left and right transverse processes
Give an example of a pedicle
2 pedicles on a vertebra
Give an example of a sinus
the hole for the eys
