bones

Question 1

capitulum

Answer 1

small round articular head

Question 2

Condyle

Answer 2

rounded, knuckle-like articular area, often occurring in pairs

Question 3

Crest

Answer 3

ridge of the bone

Question 4

epicondyle

Answer 4

eminence superior to a condyle

Question 5

facet

Answer 5

smooth flat area area, usually covered with cartilage, where a bone articulates with another bone (superior costal facet on the body of the vertebra for articulation with a rib)

Question 6

foramen

Answer 6

passage through a bone

Question 7

fossa

Answer 7

hollow or depressed area

Question 8

groove

Answer 8

elongated depression or furrow

Question 9

mallaleolus

Answer 9

rounded process

Question 10

notch

Answer 10

indentation at the edge of a bone

Question 11

protuberance

Answer 11

projection of a bone

Question 12

trochanter

Answer 12

large blunt elevation

Question 13

trochlea

Answer 13

spool-like articular process or process that acts as a pulley

Question 14

tubercle

Answer 14

small raised eminence

Question 15

tuberosity

Answer 15

large rounded elevation

Question 16

periosteum

Answer 16

a fiborous CT covering around each skeletal element like a sleeve except for where articular cartilage occurs

Question 17

perichondrium

Answer 17

fiborous CT covering cartilage

Question 18

articular cartilage

Answer 18

gliding surfaces that provide smooth, low friction, gliding surface for free movement . Avascular

Question 19

Where do we have articular cartilage

Answer 19

scapula and humerus
radius and ulna and carpus
hermus and ulna and radius 
patella and tibia and fibula 
tibia fibula and tarsus

Question 20

periosteal nerves

Answer 20

nerves that accompany blood vessels supplying bones. The periosteum us richly supplied with these sensory nerves that carry pain fibers

Question 21

osteoporosis process

Answer 21

during the aging process, the organic and inorganic components of bone health decease, causing a reduction of quantity of bone or atrophy of skeletal tissue. Hence the bones becomes brittle, lose their elasticity, and factor easily.

Question 22

The most distinctive feature of the cervical vertebra

Answer 22

The oval FORAMEN TRANSVERSARIUM (TRANSVERSE FORAMEN) within the TRANSVERSE PROCESS

Question 23

What do the Levator Scapulae and scalenes attach to?

Answer 23

The anterior and posterior tubercles of the transverse process of the cervical vertebrae

Question 24

The primary characteristic of the thoracic vertebrae

Answer 24

costal facets, attachement for the ribs

Question 25

What are the costal facets/ Where do the ribs attach?

Answer 25

transverse costal facet and the superior and inferior costal facets

Question 26

What makes up the intervertebral foramina?

Answer 26

The superior and inferior vertebral notches of adjacent vertebrae and the discs connecting them

Question 27

what passes through the intervertebral foramina?

Answer 27

spinal nerves from the vertebral column and their accompanying vessels

Question 28

What processes are within the nuchal groove

Answer 28

c3-c5

Question 29

Where do the tips of the thoracic spinous processes lie?

Answer 29

Deep within the median longitudinal furrow

Question 30

Where are the mammillary process and what attaches to them?

Answer 30

Located on the posterior surface of the superior articular process of the lumbar vertebrae. Gives attachment to both the multifidus and the intertransversarii muscles of the back

Question 31

What is the sacral canal?

Answer 31

The continuation of the vertebral canal in the sacrum

Question 32

What does the sacral canal contain?

Answer 32

The bundle of spinal nerve roots arising inferior to the L1 vertebra, known as the CAUDA EQUINA that descends past the terminal end of the spinal cord