Lab 1 - Human Skeleton

Question 1

condyle

Answer 1

a large rounded articulating knob. helps to form a joint.

Question 2

facet

Answer 2

a flattened or shallow articulating surface (on vertebrae, rib)

Question 3

Fovea

Answer 3

A small rounded depression or pit (eye)

Question 4

Foramen

Answer 4

an opening through a bone

Question 5

Fossa

Answer 5

A rounded depression

Question 6

Head

Answer 6

A prominent, rounded, articulating proximal end of a bone

Question 7

Meatus

Answer 7

a passageway or tunnel through a bone

Question 8

Pedicle

Answer 8

a stalk or base of a structure

Question 9

Process

Answer 9

a projection on a bone

Question 10

Ramus

Answer 10

part of a bone that forms an angle with the main body of the bone

Question 11

Suture

Answer 11

a junction between flat bone

Question 12

Sinus

Answer 12

a cavity or hollow space in a bone

Question 13

Tubercle

Answer 13

a lump on a bone for muscle attachment

Question 14

give an example of a fovea

Answer 14

small depression in the eye

Question 15

give an example of a condyle

Answer 15

2 bumps on the femur that attach to the knee

Question 16

give an example of a facet

Answer 16

on rib, vertebrae

Question 17

Give an example of a bone with a head

Answer 17

radius, rib

Question 18

Give an example of a bone with a ramus

Answer 18

mandible

Question 19

Give 3 examples of bones with a fossa

Answer 19

1. glenoid—cavity of the scapula (for the humerus to attach)
2. Radial and coronoid fossae of the humerus
3. iliac fossa

Question 20

Give 3 examples of a foramen

Answer 20

1. Obturator foramen (opening between ischium and pubis on pelvic girdle)
2. Vertebral foramen (on all 3 vertebrae)
3. Transverse foramen (ONLY on cervical vertebrae)

Question 21

Give 2 examples of a meatus

Answer 21

-in the skull

-external acoustic meatus of the ear

Question 22

give 2 examples of processes

Answer 22

-spinous process
-left and right transverse processes

Question 23

Give an example of a pedicle

Answer 23

2 pedicles on a vertebra

Question 24

Give an example of a sinus

Answer 24

the hole for the eys