Ways of describing bone characteristics
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| a deep pit or socket in the maxillae or mandible | alveolus
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| a junction between 2 bones | articulation
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| ear-shaped | auricular
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| cleft into 2 parts or branches | bifid
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| a passageway through a bone | canal/meatus
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| a little head | capitulum
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| a spiral structure shaped like a seashell | concha
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| a large, smooth, rounded articulating oval structure | condyle
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| a projection shaped like a crow's beak | coracoid
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| a triangular projection ending in a sharp point | coronoid
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| associated with or a part of the ribs | costal
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| a narrow, prominent ridgelike projection | crest
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| perforated like a sieve | cribiform
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| wedge-shaped | cuneiform
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| half of a facet, part of an articular surface shared by 2 adjacent bones | demifacet
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| the middle of a long bone, the shaft | diaphysis
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| the projection adjacent to a condyle | epicondyle
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| the end of a long bone | epiphysis
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| a small, flat, narrow articulating surface | facet
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| a narrow, slit-like opening through a bone | fissure
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| a rounded passageway through a bone | foramen
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| a flattened, shallow depression | fossa
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| a small depression | fovea
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| shaped like a shallow socket | glenoid
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| a gap | hiatus
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| a flat, thin plate | lamina
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| a low ridge, less prominent than a crest | line
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| a club-/hammer-shaped process | malleolus
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| breast-shaped | mastoid
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| a V-shaped indentation | notch
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| associated with the nape of the neck | nuchal
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| a supporting column or stalk | pedicle
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| like a rock | petrous
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| any marked bony prominence | process
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| a high place | promontory
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| wing-like | pterygoid
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| an angular extension of a bone relative to the rest of the structure | ramus
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| a partition | septum
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| a cavity or hollow space in a bone | sinus
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| a pointed, slender process | spine
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| flat, scale-like | squamous
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| pointed, pen-like | styloid
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| a narrow groove | sulcus
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| the line of union in an unmovable articulation | suture
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| a massive projection only found on the femur | trochanter
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| a smooth, grooved pulley-like articular process | trochlea
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| a small, round protrusion | tubercle
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| a large, rough protrusion | tuberosity
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| shaped like a sword | xiphoid
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