AP Flashcards
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| 5964870362 | Crest | Narrow ridge of bone usually prominent; muscle and ligament attachement | 0 | |
| 5964870363 | Tuberosity | Large rounded projection may be roughened | 1 | |
| 5964870364 | Canal | Narrow tube, passage, or channel for blood vessels and nerves | 2 | |
| 5964870365 | Fovea | Deep pit or depression in bone | 3 | |
| 5964870366 | Sulcus | Groove or furrow in a bone | 4 | |
| 5964870367 | Cornu | Horn shaped projection pr structure | 5 | |
| 5964870368 | Squama | Flat portion or area on a bone | 6 | |
| 5964870369 | Facet | Smooth nearly flat articular surface; helps form joints | 7 | |
| 5964870370 | Condyle | Rounded articular projection; joint formation | 8 | |
| 5964870371 | Ramus | Armlike bar of bone; joint formation | 9 | |
| 5964870372 | Groove | Furrow | 10 | |
| 5964870373 | Fissure | Narrow slitlike openings; passageay for blod vessels and nerves | 11 | |
| 5964870374 | Foramen | Round or oval opening through a bone; passage way for blood vessels and nerves | 12 | |
| 5964870375 | Notch | Indentation at the edge of a structure; passageway for blood vessels and nerves | 13 | |
| 5964870376 | Sinus | Bone cavity filled with air and lined with mucus membrane | 14 | |
| 5964870377 | Fossa | Shallow basinlike depression in bone | 15 | |
| 5964870378 | Visceral skeleton | Bones derived from embryonic gill arches (Ear ossicles and hyoid) | 16 | |
| 5964870379 | Spine | Sharp, slender, pointed projection; muscle and ligament attachment | 17 | |
| 5964870380 | Epicondyle | Above or on condyle; muscle and ligament attachment | 18 | |
| 5964870381 | Tubercle | Small rounder projection or process; muscle and ligament attachment | 19 | |
| 5964870382 | Line | Narrow ridge of bone less prominent than crest; muscle and ligament attachment | 20 | |
| 5964870383 | Trochanter | Large, blunt, irregularly shaped process (femur); muscle and ligament | 21 | |
| 5964870384 | Ala | Wing like portion of bone | 22 | |
| 5964870385 | Conchae | Lateral fold of a bone in nasal cavity that creates more efficient circulation of inhaled air (more air flow more SA) | 23 | |
| 5964870386 | Suture | Line remaining after 2 bones have joined together and fused, seen btwn skull bones | 24 | |
| 5964870387 | Fontanel | Spaces covered by connective tissue (tough membranes) btwn bones of a fetus/infant skull | 25 | |
| 5964870388 | Process | Any bone prominence | 26 | |
| 5964870389 | Head | Bony expansion carrier on a narrow neck; forms joints | 27 | |
| 5964870390 | Meatus | Canal like passageway | 28 |