Bone Markings and Features

Question 1

What are bone markings and features?

Answer 1

Bone markings and features include processes or projections, depressions, and fractures.

Question 2

What are processes or projections in bone markings?

Answer 2

Processes or projections extend beyond or project out from the main body of a bone.

Question 3

What are depressions in bone markings?

Answer 3

Depressions are hollow or depressed areas in a bone.

Question 4

What is a fracture?

Answer 4

A fracture is a break in a bone.

Question 5

What is a condyle?

Answer 5

A rounded process at an articular end.

Question 6

What is a coracoid or coronoid?

Answer 6

A beaklike or crownlike process.

Question 7

What is a crest?

Answer 7

A ridgelike process.

Question 8

What is an epicondyle?

Answer 8

A projection above a condyle.

Question 9

What is a facet?

Answer 9

A small, smooth-surfaced articular process.

Question 10

What is a hamulus?

Answer 10

A hook-shaped process.

Question 11

What is a head in bone terminology?

Answer 11

An expanded end of a long bone.

Question 12

What is a horn?

Answer 12

A hornlike process.

Question 13

What is a Line in anatomical terms?

Answer 13

Linear elevation; not as prominent as a crest

Question 14

What is a Malleolus?

Answer 14

Club-shaped process

Question 15

What is a Protuberance?

Answer 15

Projecting prominence

Question 16

What is a Spine?

Answer 16

Sharp process

Question 17

What is a Styloid?

Answer 17

Long, pointed process

Question 18

What is a Trochanter?

Answer 18

Either of the two large, rounded, and elevated processes of the proximal femur

Question 19

What is a Tubercle?

Answer 19

Small, rounded, and elevated process

Question 20

What is a Tuberosity?

Answer 20

Large, rounded, and elevated process

Question 21

What is a fissure?

Answer 21

A cleft or deep groove.

Question 22

What is a foramen?

Answer 22

A hole in a bone for transmission of vessels and nerves.

Question 23

What is a fossa?

Answer 23

A pit, fovea, or hollow space.

Question 24

What is a groove?

Answer 24

A shallow linear channel.

Question 25

What is a meatus?

Answer 25

A tubelike passageway.

Question 26

What is a notch?

Answer 26

An indentation in the border of a bone.

Question 27

What is a sinus?

Answer 27

A recess, groove, cavity, or hollow space.

Question 28

What is a sulcus?

Answer 28

A furrow or trench.

Question 29

What are the common classifications of fractures?

Answer 29

Common classifications of fractures include: Compression, Compound (open), Comminuted, Greenstick, Impacted, Transverse, Spiral or oblique, Simple.

Question 30

What is a closed fracture?

Answer 30

A closed fracture is one where the bone is broken but there is no puncture or open wound in the skin.

Question 31

What is an open fracture?

Answer 31

An open fracture, also known as a compound fracture, is one where the bone breaks through the skin.

Question 32

What is a nondisplaced fracture?

Answer 32

A nondisplaced fracture is a type of fracture where the bone cracks but maintains its proper alignment.

Question 33

What is a displaced fracture?

Answer 33

A displaced fracture is a type of fracture where the bone is broken and the pieces are misaligned.

Question 34

What is a greenstick fracture?

Answer 34

A greenstick fracture is an incomplete fracture where the bone bends and cracks on one side, common in children.

Question 35

What is a comminuted fracture?

Answer 35

A comminuted fracture is one where the bone is shattered into multiple pieces.

Question 36

What is an impacted fracture?

Answer 36

An impacted fracture occurs when the broken ends of the bone are driven into each other.

Question 37

What is a transverse fracture?

Answer 37

A transverse fracture is a straight break across the bone.

Question 38

What is a spiral or oblique fracture?

Answer 38

A spiral or oblique fracture is one that occurs at an angle across the bone.

Question 39

What is a simple fracture?

Answer 39

A simple fracture is a break in the bone that does not pierce the skin.