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Skeletal System

Vacabulary

TermDefinition
Aperture: Opening or orifice in the bone.
Arch: Prominent bridge like bony structure.
Articulation Area where the bones are joined to each other.
Bones Mineralized structures of the body that protect internal soft tissues and serve as a biomechanical basis for movement.
Canal: Opening in bone that is long, narrow, and tubelike
Condyle: Oval bony prominence typically located at articulations.
Conru: Small horn like prominences.
Crest: Roughened border or ridge on the bone surface.
Eminence: Tubercle or rounded elevation on a bony surface.
Fissure: Opening in the bone that is narrow and cleftlike
Foramen/foramina: Short, window like opening in bone.
Head: Rounded surface projecting from a bone by a neck.
Incisura: Site of a junction or union between two or more ones.
Line: Straight, small ridge of bone.
Meatus: Opening or canal in the bone.
Notch: Indentation at the edge of a bone.
Ostium/ostia: Small opening in bone.
Perforation: Abnormal hole in a hollow organ, such as in the wall of a sinus.
Plate: Flat structure of bone.
Primary sinusitis: Inflammation of the sinus.
Process: General term for any prominences on a bony surface.
Secondary sinusitis: Inflammation of the sinus related to another source.
Spine: Abrupt, small prominences of the bone.
Sulcus/sulci: Shallow depression or groove sushi as that on a bony structure.
Suture: Generally immovable articulation in which bones are joined by fibrous tissue.
Tubercle: Eminence or small, rounded elevation on the bony surface.
Tuberosity: Large, often rough prominence on the surface of bone.
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