Flashcards in Bone Surface Features Deck (19)
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What are the four basic surface feature categories?
Elevations, depressions, tunnels or passageways & facets
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What are the types of osseous elevations?
Linear, round and sharp
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What are types of osseous linear elevations?
The line, ridge, and crest
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What are types of rounded osseous elevations?
Tubercle, protuberance, trochanter, tuber or tuberosity and malleolus
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What is the definition of an osseous trochanter?
a large, blunt projection from the surface of bone with a significant base and height
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What is the definition of an osseous malleolus?
a hammerhead-like elevation on the surface of bone
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What are categories of sharp osseous elevations?
Spine & Process
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What are the categories of osseous depresions?
Linear and rounded depressions
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What are the categories of osseous linear depression?
Notch or incisure, groove and sulcus
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What are the categories of rounded osseous depressions?
The fovea and fossa
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What are the names given to openings on the surface of bone?
Ostium or orfice and hiatus
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What is the definition of an osseous hiatus?
An irregular opening on the surface of a bone
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What are the names given to osseous ostia which completely penetrate bone?
Foramen or canal
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What is the definition of an osseous canal
an ostium passing completely through a thick region of bone
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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?
Meatus
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What is the definition of an osseous fissure?
An irregular slit-like or crack-like appearance between the surfaces of adjacent bones
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What are the categories of osseous facets?
Flat facets and rounded facets
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What are the categories of rounded osseous facets?
Articular heads and articular condyles
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