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1
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What are the four basic surface feature categories?

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Elevations, depressions, tunnels or passageways & facets

2
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What are the types of osseous elevations?

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Linear, round and sharp

3
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What are types of osseous linear elevations?

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The line, ridge, and crest

4
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What are types of rounded osseous elevations?

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Tubercle, protuberance, trochanter, tuber or tuberosity and malleolus

5
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What is the definition of an osseous trochanter?

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a large, blunt projection from the surface of bone with a significant base and height

6
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What is the definition of an osseous malleolus?

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a hammerhead-like elevation on the surface of bone

7
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What are categories of sharp osseous elevations?

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Spine & Process

8
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What are the categories of osseous depresions?

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Linear and rounded depressions

9
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What are the categories of osseous linear depression?

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Notch or incisure, groove and sulcus

10
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What are the categories of rounded osseous depressions?

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The fovea and fossa

11
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What are the names given to openings on the surface of bone?

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Ostium or orfice and hiatus

12
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What is the definition of an osseous hiatus?

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An irregular opening on the surface of a bone

13
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What are the names given to osseous ostia which completely penetrate bone?

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Foramen or canal

14
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What is the definition of an osseous canal

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an ostium passing completely through a thick region of bone

15
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What is the name given to an ostium which does not completely penetrate through a region of bone but appears as a blind-ended passageway?

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Meatus

16
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What is the definition of an osseous fissure?

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An irregular slit-like or crack-like appearance between the surfaces of adjacent bones

17
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What are the categories of osseous facets?

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Flat facets and rounded facets

18
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What are the categories of rounded osseous facets?

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Articular heads and articular condyles

19
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What is the definition of an osseous condyle?

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A knuckle-shaped surface on a bone for osseous articulation