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ATW 123
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| vinegar cup | acetabul- |
| acatebulum | a depression in the coxal bone that articulates with the head of the femur |
| axis | ax- |
| axial skeleton | portion of the skeleton down the center of the body that supports the head, neck, & trunk |
| budding | -blast |
| osteoblast | a cell that forms or builds new bone tissue |
| wrist | carp- |
| carpals | group of 8 bones in the wrist |
| broken | -clast |
| osteoclast | a cell that breaks down bone tissue |
| knuckle | condyl- |
| condyle | a rounded process of bone used for articulation such as the medial & lateral condyles of the femur |
| beaklike | corac |
| coracoid process | the scapula has a beaklike projection called the coracoid process |
| sievelike | cribr- |
| cribriform plate | portion of the ethmoid bone with many small openings |
| ridge | crist- |
| crista galli | bony projection that extends upward from the ethmoid bone into the cranial cavity |
| pit | fov- |
| fovea capitis | the small pit in the head of the femur |
| joint socket | glen- |
| glenoid cavity | depression in the scapula that articulates with the head of the humerus |
| blood | hema- |
| hematoma | a blood clot |
| between | inter- |
| intervertebral disk | structure located between adjacent vertebra |
| inside or within | intra- |
| intramembranous bone | bone that forms within sheet-like layers of connective tissue |
| passage | meat- |
| auditory meatus | canal within the temporal bone that leads to bones of the inner ear |
| tooth | odont- |
| odontoid process | toothlike process of the second cervical vertebra |
| making | poie- |
| hemopoiesis | process by which blood cells are formed |
| knob | tuber- |
| rib tubercle | small rounded process of rib that articulates with thoracic vertebrae |