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Arthrology Part 3a

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What are depressions?   Hollow or depressed areas  
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What is a fracture?   A break in bone  
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Processes or projections ____ beyond or _____out from the main body of a bone   Extend; project  
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A rounded process at an articular end?   Condyle  
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What is beaklike or crownlike process?   Coracoid or coronoid  
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Describe Crest   Ridgelike process  
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Describe Epicondyle   Projection above a condyle  
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What has a small, smooth-surfaced articular process?   Facet  
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What has a hook-shaped process?   Hamulus  
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Describe Head   Expanded end of a long bone  
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Describe Horn   Hornlike process  
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What has linear elevation, not as prominent as a crest?   Line  
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Describe Malleolus   Club-shaped process  
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Describe Protuberance   Projecting prominence  
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Describe Spine   Sharp process  
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Describe Styloid   Long, pointed process  
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Describe Trochanter   Either of the 2 large, rounded and elevated processes of the proximal femur  
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Describe Tubercle   Small, rounded, and elevated process  
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Tuberosity?   Large, rounded, and elevated process  
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Fissure?   Cleft or deep groove  
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Foramen?   Hole in a bone for transmission of vessels & nerves  
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Fossa?   Pit, fovea, or hollow space  
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Groove?   Shallow linear channel  
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Meatus?   Tubelike passageway within bone  
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Notch?   Indentation in the border of a bone  
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Sinus?   Recess, groove, cavity, or hollow space  
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Sulcus?   Furrow or trench  
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What type of fracture does not break skin?   Closed  
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Does an open fracture break through skin or not?   Does not break through skin  
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Describe a nondisplaced fracture   Bone retains normal alignment  
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A displaced fracture does what?   Fracture bones don't remain in anatomical position  
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Closed, open, nondisplaced, and displaced describe what?   Types of bone fractures  
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Can fractures fall into more than one category?   Yes  
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Compression, compound (open), simple, greenstick, transverse, spiral or oblique, comminuted, and impacted are what?   Common classifications of fractures  
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Which of the following is defined as a beaklike or crownlike process? A. Coronoid process; B. Condyle; C. Epicondyle; D. Malleolus   A. Coronoid process  
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Which of the following is defined as a hole in a bone for transmission of blood vessels and nerves? A. Fissure; B. Groove; C. Sinus; D. Foramen   D. Foramen  
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