Bone surface features

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 elevations?

Answer 4

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 is the definition of an osseous protuberance?

Answer 6

rounded elevation from the surface of bone with a larger base that appears as a swelling or knob

Question 7

What is the definition of an osseous malleolus?

Answer 7

hammer-head like elevation on the surface of bone

Question 8

What are the categories of sharp osseous elevations?

Answer 8

spine and process

Question 9

What is the definition of an osseous trochanter?

Answer 9

large, blunt projection from the surface of bone with a significant base and height

Question 10

What is the definition of an osseous tuber or tuberosity?

Answer 10

large projection with a significant base and variable height on the surface of bone

Question 11

What is the definition of an osseous malleolus?

Answer 11

hammer-head like elevation on the surface of bone

Question 12

What is the definition of the osseous elevation called spine?

Answer 12

thorn like elevation from the surface of bone

Question 13

What is the definition of an osseous process?

Answer 13

relatively sharp bony projection from the surface of bone with an increased length.

Question 14

what are the categories of osseous depressions?

Answer 14

linear and rounded depressions

Question 15

What are the categories of osseous linear depressions?

Answer 15

notch or incisor, groove, and sulcus

Question 16

What is the definition of an osseous surface notch or incisor?

Answer 16

a short indentation of variable depth on the surface of bone

Question 17

What is the definition of an osseous groove?

Answer 17

a long furrow of variable depth on the surface of a bone

Question 18

What is the categories of rounded osseous depressions?

Answer 18

fovea and fossa

Question 19

Definition of osseous fovea?

Answer 19

shallow depression of variable circumference on the surface of bone

Question 20

What is the definition of an osseous fossa?

Answer 20

a deep depression of variable circumference on the surface of bone

Question 21

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

Answer 21

osmium or orifice and hiatus

Question 22

What is the definition of and osseous ostium?

Answer 22

a round or oval opening on the surface of bone

Question 23

what is the definition of an osseous hiatus?

Answer 23

irregular opening on the surface of bone

Question 24

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

Answer 24

foramen or canal

Question 25

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 25

meatus

Question 26

What is the definition of a osseous meatus?

Answer 26

blind ended passageway that does not completely penetrate through a bone

Question 27

What is the definition of an osseous fissure?

Answer 27

irregular slit-like or crack-like appearance between the surfaces of adjacent bones

Question 28

What are the categories of rounded osseous facets?

Answer 28

articular hearts and articular condyles

Question 29

What is the definition of an osseous condyle?

Answer 29

a knuckle-shaped surface on bone for osseous articulation