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47 Cards in this Set
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Articulation
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the junction of twobones
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Auricular
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ear-shaped
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Canal, meatus
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a small tube-likepassageway
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Capitulum
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a little head
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Concha
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a spiral structurelike a seashell
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Condyle
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a rounded surface forarticulation
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Coracoid
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describing aprojection shaped like a crow’s beak
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Coronoid
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describing atriangular projection ending in a sharp point
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Costal
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associated with orpart of the ribs
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Crest
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a ridge of bone
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Cribriform
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perforated like asieve
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Cuneiform
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wedge - shaped
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Demi-facet
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half of a facet, partof an articular surface shared by two adjacent bones
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Diaphysis
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the middle portion ofa long bone, the shaft
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Epicondyle
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aprojection above a condyle |
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Epiphysis
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the end of a longbone
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Facet
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a smooth, flatsurface for articulation
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Fissure
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a narrow slit orcleft
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Foramen
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an opening orperforation
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Fossa
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a depression or pit
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Fovea
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a small depression
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Glenoid
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shaped like a shallowsocket
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Head
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the rounded end of along bone for articulation
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Hiatus
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a gap
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Lamina
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a thinflat plate |
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Line
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a ridge, lessprominent than a crest
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Malleolus
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a club-shaped orhammer-shaped process
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Mastoid
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breast- shaped
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Meatus, canal
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a small tube-likepassageway
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Neck
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a constricted portionadjacent to the head
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Notch
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an indentation orv-shaped depression
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Nuchal
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associated with thenape of the neck
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Pedicle
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a supporting columnor stalk
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Process
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any projection oreminence
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Promontory
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a high place
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Pterygoid
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wing-like
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Ramus
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a branch
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Septum
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a partition
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Sinus
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a cavity within abone
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Squamous
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Flat, scale-like
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Styloid
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pointed, pen-like
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Sulcus
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a furrow or groove
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Suture
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theline of union in an immovable articulation |
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Trochanter,tuberosity
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a large irregularprojection
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Trochlea
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a pulley-shaped process
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Tubercle
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a small roundedprojection
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Tuberosity,trochanter
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a large irregularprojection
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