Anatomical Terms For Openings Etc

Question 1

What are the 4 main classifications?

Answer 1

Articulating surfaces
Depressions
Projections for tendon and ligament attachment
Openings and spaces

Question 2

What are the names of the depressions?

Answer 2

Alveolus (pl. Alveoli)
Fossa (pl. Fossae)
Sulcus

Question 3

What are the names of the projections for tendon and ligament attachment?

Answer 3

Crest 
Epicondyle 
Line 
Process 
Ramus (pl. Rami) 
Spine 
Trochanter 
Tubercle 
Tuberosity

Question 4

What are the names of the articulating surfaces?

Answer 4

Condyle
Facet
Head
Trochlea

Question 5

What are the names of openings and spaces?

Answer 5

Canal
Fissure 
Foramen (pl. Foramina) 
Meatus
Sinus

Question 6

What are the name of the 5 spines of pelvic girdle?

Answer 6

Posterior superior iliac spine

Posterior inferior iliac spine

Anterior superior iliac spine

Anterior inferior iliac spine

Ischial spine

Question 7

Name of 2 notches of pelvic girdle.

Answer 7

Greater sciatic notch

Lesser sciatic notch

Question 8

Name the socket that houses the head of the femur.

Answer 8

Acetabulum

Question 9

What is the opening of pelvic girdle that’s covered with connective tissue?

Answer 9

Opturator Foramen

Question 10

Another word for hip bone

Answer 10

Coxal bone

Question 11

What seperates greater sciatic notch and lesser sciatic notch?

Answer 11

Ischial spine

Question 12

What are the two projections near ischium?

Answer 12

Ischial tuberosity

Ischial spine

Question 13

Names of the four projections on ilium.

Answer 13

Posterior superior iliac spine
Posterior inferior iliac spine
Anterior superior iliac spine
Anterior inferior iliac spine

Question 14

Which is more medial, the lesser trochanter of femur, or the greater trochanter?

Answer 14

Lesser trochanter

Question 15

Name of the long rough line along posterior femur?

Answer 15

Linea Aspera

Question 16

Structure between the lesser trochanter and greater trochanter on posterior femur?

Answer 16

Intertrochanteric crest

Question 17

What is the struture between the lateral and medial condyles of the femur?

Answer 17

Intercondylar fossa

Question 18

What are the smooth structures that articulate with the tibia to create the knee joint?

Answer 18

Medial condyle

Lateral condyle

Question 19

What are the rough structures on distal end of femur that attach to ligaments?

Answer 19

Medial epicondyle

Lateral epicondyle

Question 20

What is the small hole in head of femur?

Answer 20

Fovea capitis

Question 21

How can you tell if femur is posterior or Anterior?

Answer 21

Posterior you see the Linea Aspera and
Intercondylar fossa and condyles very prominent

Anterior- no linea Aspera and
Intercondylar fossa and condyles are NOT very prominent

Question 22

What are the large areas of both sides of ilium called? Medial and lateral.

Answer 22

Medial: iliac fossa
Lateral: gluteal surface

Question 23

What is the large, laterally positioned hole (posterior view of hip bone with ligaments)?

Answer 23

Greater sciatic foramen

Question 24

What is the small, lateral inferior positioned hole (posterior view of hip bone with ligaments) called?

Answer 24

Lesser sciatic foramen

Question 25

What is the long ligament of anterior hip bone?

Answer 25

Inguinal ligament

Question 26

What are the attachment sites of inguinal ligament?

Answer 26

Anterior superior iliac spine and pubic tubercle

Question 27

What are the two ligaments on posterior hip bone?

Answer 27

Sacrospinous ligament | Sacrotuberous ligament

Question 28

What are the attachment sites for sacrospinous ligament?

Answer 28

Sacral and ischial spine

Question 29

What are the attachment sites for sacrotuberous ligament?

Answer 29

Sacrum and ischial tuberosity

Question 30

Which bone of the hip is the one you sit on?

Answer 30

Ischial tuberosity

Question 31

What will the inguinal ligament help us identify?

Answer 31

The femoral triangle

Question 32

What are the names of the three hip bones?

Answer 32

Ilium Ischium Pubis

Question 33

What bone is sesamoid?

Answer 33

Patella

Question 34

3 bone components of the foot?

Answer 34

Tarsal Metatarsal Phalanges

Question 35

How many tarsal bones in foot?

Answer 35

7

Question 36

How many metatarsal bones in foot?

Answer 36

5

Question 37

How many phalange bones in foot?

Answer 37

14

Question 38

What is the name of the structure that holds the head of femur?

Answer 38

Acetabulum

Question 39

What is the name of the structure in hip that has connective tissue covering it and is site for certain nerve?

Answer 39

Opturator foramen

Question 40

What bone looks like a fancy X on hip bone (anteriorly)?

Answer 40

Pubis

Question 41

What is the structure located in acetabulum that is the site of fusion for all three bones of the hip?

Answer 41

Triradiate cartilage

Question 42

What is the small projection that comes from anterior side of hip on pubis?

Answer 42

Pubic tubercle

Question 43

Name of top of ilium?

Answer 43

Iliac crest

Question 44

What is a landmark for posterior inferior iliac spine?

Answer 44

Hanging down. Right above greater sciatic notch.

Question 45

What is a landmark for anterior inferior iliac spine?

Answer 45

Very close to pubis

Question 46

What is a landmark for posterior superior iliac spine?

Answer 46

Bump above posterior inferior iliac spine

Question 47

What is a landmark for anterior superior iliac spine?

Answer 47

Most aligned with iliac fossa

Question 48

Where is ischium?

Answer 48

Bottom posterior. Side of ischial tuberosity

Question 49

What is between head and greater trochanter of femur?

Answer 49

Neck

Question 50

What is the elevated spot of the tibia bone?

Answer 50

Intercondylar eminence

Question 51

What is the articulating surface of superior tibia close to fibula?

Answer 51

Lateral condyle

Question 52

What is the articulating surface on superior tibia further from fibula?

Answer 52

Medial condyle

Question 53

What is the superior portion of fibula called?

Answer 53

Head

Question 54

What is the name of inferior ends tibia and fibula?

Answer 54

Malleolus

Question 55

The inferior end of tibia is the _____ ______.

Answer 55

Medial malleolus

Question 56

The inferior end of fibula is the _____ ______.

Answer 56

Lateral malleolus