Skeletal System Vocabulary

Question 1

A deep pit or socket in the maxilla or mandible

Answer 1

alveolus

Question 2

the junction of two bones

Answer 2

articulation

Question 3

ear-shape

Answer 3

auricular

Question 4

cleft into two parts or branches

Answer 4

bifid

Question 5

a little head

Answer 5

capitulum

Question 6

a spiral structure like a seashell

Answer 6

concha

Question 7

a large, smooth, rounded articulating oval structure

Answer 7

condyle

Question 8

describing a projection shape like a crow’s beak

Answer 8

coracoid

Question 9

describing a triangular projection ending in a sharp point

Answer 9

coronoid

Question 10

associated with or a part of the rib

Answer 10

costal

Question 11

a narrow, prominent ridgelike projection

Answer 11

crest

Question 12

perforated like a sieve

Answer 12

cribriform

Question 13

half of a facet, part of an articular surface shared by two adjacent bones

Answer 13

demifacet

Question 14

the middle portion of a long bone, the shaft

Answer 14

diaphysis

Question 15

an elevation or projection, especially on a bone

Answer 15

eminence

Question 16

a projection adjacent to a condyle

Answer 16

epicondyle

Question 17

the end of a long bone

Answer 17

epiphysis

Question 18

a small, flat shallow articulating surface

Answer 18

facet

Question 19

a narrow, slit-like opening through bone

Answer 19

fissure

Question 20

a rounded passageway through bone

Answer 20

foramen

Question 21

a flattened or shallow depression

Answer 21

fossa

Question 22

a small pit or depression

Answer 22

fovea

Question 23

shape like a shallow socket

Answer 23

glenoid

Question 24

a prominent, rounded epiphysis

Answer 24

head

Question 25

a gap

Answer 25

hiatus

Question 26

a thin, flat plate

Answer 26

lamina

Question 27

a low ridge, less prominent than crest

Answer 27

line

Question 28

a club-shape or hammer-shape process

Answer 28

malleolus

Question 29

breast-shape

Answer 29

mastoid

Question 30

a passageway through a bone

Answer 30

meatus

Question 31

a constricted portion adjacent to a head

Answer 31

neck

Question 32

an indentation or V-shaped depression

Answer 32

notch

Question 33

associated with the nape of the nake

Answer 33

nuchal

Question 34

a supporting column or stalk

Answer 34

pedicle

Question 35

like a rock

Answer 35

petrous

Question 36

a projection; a bony prominence

Answer 36

process

Question 37

a high place

Answer 37

promontory

Question 38

winglike

Answer 38

pterygoid

Question 39

an angular extension of a bone relative to the rest of the structure; a branch

Answer 39

ramus

Question 40

a partition

Answer 40

septum

Question 41

a cavity or hollow space in a bone

Answer 41

sinus

Question 42

a pointed, slender process

Answer 42

spine

Question 43

flat, scalelike

Answer 43

squamous

Question 44

pointed, pen-like

Answer 44

styloid

Question 45

a narrow groove

Answer 45

sulcus

Question 46

the line of union in a immovable articulation

Answer 46

suture

Question 47

a massive, rough projection found only on the femur

Answer 47

trochanter

Question 48

a smooth, grooved pulley-like articular process

Answer 48

trochlea

Question 49

a small, round projection

Answer 49

tubercle

Question 50

a large, rough projection

Answer 50

tuberosity

Question 51

shape like a sword

Answer 51

xiphoid