Bone Features
This bony depression typically covers a large area on a bone.
Fossa
Some call is the skull, some call it the cephalic region. Those of us in the know, know it is called this.
What is the cranium?
This feature of the scapula is closest to the midline.
What is the medial border?
This bone makes up the intermediate portion of the pelvis.
What is the sacrum?
Take care when falling, else you might break this bone, like so many others.
What is the scaphoid?
These bony features are pockets inside bone that contain air.
What are sinuses?
This small bone is located at the most inferior aspect of the sternum.
What is the xiphoid process?
The most inferior and the most superior aspects of the the scapula are a pair of these.
What are angles?
When taking a seat everyday, many don't think twice about the instrumental role that this bone plays.
What is the ischium?
Feeling left out? Try making friends with the thumb, he's missing this important feature and the rest of the fingers oust him for it.
What is the intermediate phalanx?
This feature, found in both the pelvis and scapula is small projection used to muscle attatchment.
What is a tubercle?
This bone is proximally located in the arm and forms a joint with the glenoid fossa.
What is the humerus?
The spine of the scapula come to a point at this particular feature.
What is the acromion?
This bony feature can be found on the most superior aspect of the ilium.
What is the iliac crest?
With feet firmly planted on the ground, this bones gets plenty of contact while you navigate.
What is the calcaneus?
Six of these features are found in the anterior skull.
What are foramen?
Totaling 12, one might say these bones are especially well developed in someone who has considerable strength of character.
What are the thoracic vertebrae?
From the Greek "corax" this bony feature of the scapula resembles a raven's beak.
What is the coracoid?
Obtuse in women, acute in men, this pelvic feature is very telling to forensic anthropologists trying to identify skeletal remains.
What is the pelvic angle?
They say good things always come in three, so these bones must be the best of the foot.
What are the cuneiforms?
Described as a "small, rounded surface," this feature is NOT a head.
What is a condyle?
This bone's partner can be found laterally, in line with the pollex.
What is the ulna?
These three features are instrumental in the formation of the rotator cuff.
What are the glenoid cavity, the acromion, and the coracoid process?
Not the first, but the second largest opening in the pelvis is referred to by this name.
What is the obturator formen?
Don't say this bone's name backwards, else people might think you're talking about what you had for lunch!
What is hamate?