Ch. 7 Axial(Part 2)

Front 1

Depressions/ openings

Back 1

sites allowing the passage of soft tissue or formation of joints

Front 2

Fissure

Back 2

A slit-like opening

Front 3

Depressions/ openings
(EXAMPLE)

Back 3

nerves, blood vessels, ligaments, tendons

Front 4

Fissure
(EXAMPLE)

Back 4

Superior orbital fissure of the sphenoid bone

Front 5

Foramen
(EXAMPLE)

Back 5

Optic foramen of the sphenoid bone

Front 6

Foramen

Back 6

Opening (hole) through which blood vessels, nerves or ligaments pass

Front 7

Sulcus

Back 7

Furrow (groove) along a bone surface that accommodates a blood vessel, nerve, or tendon

Front 8

Sulcus
(EXAMPLE)

Back 8

Intertubercular sulcus of the humerous

Front 9

Fossa

Back 9

Shallow Depression or trench

Front 10

Fossa
(EXAMPLE)

Back 10

Coronoid fossa of the humerus

Front 11

Meatus

Back 11

Tubelike opening or passageway

Front 12

Meatus
(EXAMPLE)

Back 12

External auditory meatus of the temporal bone

Front 13

Processes of joints

Back 13

Projections or outgrowths on bone that form joints or attachment points for conn. tissue

Front 14

Processes of joints
(EXAMPLE)

Back 14

ligament and tendons

Front 15

Condyle

Back 15

Large, round protuberance (knuckle) at the end of a bone

Front 16

Fovea

Back 16

A pit

Front 17

Fovea
(EXAMPLE)

Back 17

Fovea capitus on femur head

Front 18

Sinus

Back 18

Cavity

Front 19

Facet

Back 19

smooth flat articular suface

Front 20

Facet
(EXAMPLE)

Back 20

Superior articular facet of a vertabra

Front 21

Head

Back 21

rounded articular projection supported on the neck of a bone.

Front 22

Head
(EXAMPLE)

Back 22

Head of the femur

Front 23

Crest

Back 23

Prominent border or ridge

Front 24

Crest
(EXAMPLE)

Back 24

Illiac crest of the hip bone

Front 25

Epicondyle

Back 25

Projection above a condyle

Front 26

Epicondyle
(EXAMPLE)

Back 26

Medial epicondyle of the femur

Front 27

Line

Back 27

Less prominent border or ridge, narrow and long

Front 28

Line
(EXAMPLE)

Back 28

Linea aspera of the femur

Front 29

Spinous process or spine

Back 29

sharp slender projection

Front 30

Spinous process or spine
(EXAMPLE)

Back 30

Spinous process of vertabra

Front 31

Trochanter

Back 31

Large blunt projection

Front 32

Trochanter
(EXAMPLE)

Back 32

Greater trochanter of the femur

Front 33

Tubercle

Back 33

Small rounded process

Front 34

Tubercle
(EXAMPLE)

Back 34

Greater tubercle of the humerus

Front 35

Tuberosity

Back 35

Large rounded usually roughned projection