Vocab Used For The Skelton Flashcards
Junction of two bones
Articulation
A deep pit or socket in the maxillae or mandible
Alveolus
Ear-shaped
Auricular
Cleft into two parts or branches
Bifid
A passageway through a bone
Canal
Meatus
A little head
Capitulum
A spiral structure like a seashell
Concha
A large, smooth, rounded articulating oval structure
Condyle
Describing a projection shaped like a crows beak
Coracoid
Describing a triangular projection ending in a sharp point
Coronoid
Associated with or a part of the ribs
Costal
A narrow, prominent ridgelike projection
Crest
Perforated like a sieve
Cribriform
Wedge-shaped
Cuneiform
Half of a facet, put of an articular surface shared by two adjacent bones
Demifacet
The middle portion of a long bone, the shaft
Diaphysis
An elevation or projection, especially on a bone
Eminence
A projection adjacent to a condyle
Epicondyle
The end of a long bone
Epiphysis
A small, flat, shallow articulating surface
Facet
A narrow, slit-like opening through a bone
Fissure
A rounded passageway through a bone
Foramen
A flattened or shallow depression
Fossa
A small depression
Fovea
Shaped like a shallow socket
Glenoid
A prominent, rounded epiphysis
Head
A gap
Hiatus
A thin, flat plate
Lamina
A low ridge, less prominent than a crest
Line
A club-shaped or hammer-shaped process
Malleolus
Breast-shaped
Mastoid
A passageway through a bone
Meatus
canal
A constricted portion adjacent to a head
Neck
An indentation or V-shaped depression
Notch
Associated with the nape of the neck
Nuchal
A supporting column or stalk
Pedicle
Like a rock
Petrous
A projection; a bony prominence
Process
A high place
Promontory
Winglike
Pterygoid
An angular extension of a bone relative to the rest of the structure; a branch
Ramus
A partition
Septum
A cavity to hollow space in a bone
Sinus
A pointed, slender process
Spine
Flat, scale like
Squamous
Pointed, pen-like
Styloid
A narrow groove
Sulcus
The line of union in an immovable articulation
Suture
A massive, rough projection found only on the femur
Trochanter
A smooth, grooved pulley-like articular process
Trochlea
A small, round projection
Tubercle
A large, rough projection
Tuberosity
Shaped like a sword
Xiphoid