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Bone Markings
Cards in this deck (18)
- 1TuberosityLarge rounded projection
May be roughened - 2CrestNarrow ridge of bone
Usually prominent - 3TrochanterVery large, blunt, irregularly shaped process
(only on femur) - 4LineNarrow ridge of bone, less prominent than a crest
- 5TuberculeSmall rounded projection or process
- 6EpicondyleRaised area on/above a condyle
- 7SpineSharp, slender, often pointed projection
- 8ProcessAny body prominence
- 9Headbody expansion carried on a narrow neck
- 10Facetsmooth, nearly flat articular surface
- 11Condylerounded
- 12RamusArmlike bar of bone
- 13Meatuscanal-like passageway
- 14SinusCavity within a bone, filled with air and lines with mucus membrane
- 15Fossashallow, basin-like depression in a bone often serving as an articular surface
- 16GroveFurrow
- 17Fissurenarrow, slit-like opening
- 18ForamenRound or oval opening through a bone
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- Projections that are the sites of muscle and ligament attachment. Projections that help form joints. Depressions and openings allowing blood vessels and nerves to pass.
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- Maya Jamaleddine
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