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Merrill's Chapter 3
Bone Markings and Features
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Condyle | Rounded process at an articular extremity. |
| coracoid or coronoid | Beaklike or crownlike process |
| CREST | Ridgelike process. |
| EPICONDYLE | Projection above a condyle. |
| FACET | small smooth surfaced process for articulation with another structure. |
| HAMULUS | HOOK SHAPED PROCESS |
| HEAD | EXPANDED END OF A LONG BONE |
| HORN | HORNLIKE PROCESS ON A BONE |
| LINE | LESS PROMINANT RIDGE THAN A CREST: A LINEAR ELEVATION |
| MALLEOLUS | CLUB SHAPED PROCESS |
| protuberance | projeccting part or prominence |
| spine | sharp process |
| styloid | long pointed process |
| trochanter | either of two large roudned and elevated processes located at junction of neck and shaft of femur. |
| tubercle | small rounded and elevaated process |
| tuberosity | large rounded and elevated process. |
| fissure | cleft or deep groove |
| foramen | hole in a bone for transmission of blood vessels and nerves. |
| fossa | pit, fovea, or hollow space. |
| groove | shallow linear channel |
| meatus | tubelike passageway running within a bone. |
| notch | indentation into border of a bone |
| sinus | recess, groove, cavity or hollow space. |
| sulcus | furrow, trench, or fissurelike depression. |