I. Osteology - Bone Surface Features. (Pg. 5)

Question 1

What are the four basic surface feature categories?

Answer 1

elevations, depressions, tunnels or passageways and facets

Question 2

When do the surface features of bone become prominent?

Answer 2

during and after puberty

Question 3

What are the types of osseous elevations?

Answer 3

linear, rounded and sharp

Question 4

What are the types of osseous linear elevation?

Answer 4

the line, ridge and crest

Question 5

What are the types of rounded osseous elevations?

Answer 5

tubercle, protuberance, trochanter, tuber or tuberosity and malleolus

Question 6

What are the categories of sharp osseous elevations?

Answer 6

spine and process

Question 7

What are the categories of osseous depressions?

Answer 7

linear and rounded depressions

Question 8

What are the categories of osseous linear depressions?

Answer 8

notch or incisure, groove, and sulcus

Question 9

What are the categories of rounded osseous depressions?

Answer 9

the fovea and fossa

Question 10

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

Answer 10

ostium or orifice and hiatus

Question 11

What is the definition of an osseous ostium?

Answer 11

a round or oval opening on the surface of bone

Question 12

What is the definition of an osseous hiatus?

Answer 12

an irregular opening on the surface of bone

Question 13

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

Answer 13

foramen or canal

Question 14

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?

Answer 14

meatus

Question 15

What are the categories of osseous facets?

Answer 15

flat facets and rounded facets

Question 16

What are the categories of rounded osseous facets?

Answer 16

articular heads and articular condyles