Head/Neck/Face
The lower jaw bone.
What is the Mandible?
Functionally a synarthrotic joint, this fibrous joint is found only in the skull.
What are Sutures?
A common name referring to the groove for the ulnar nerve, it's not at all amusing when you hit it.
What is the Funny Bone?
The 'socket' portion of the coxal joint.
What is the Acetabulum?
Sesamoid bone anterior to the tibiofemoral joint.
What is the Patella?
Bat-shaped bone visible externally in the eye socket and anterior to the temporal bone.
What is the Sphenoid bone?
This cartilaginous joint connects the two sides of the pelvis.
What is the Pubic Symphysis?
The number of cervical vertebrae in a giraffe's neck.
What is 7?
The bony landmark you are sitting on right now.
What is the Ischial Tuberosity?
The attachment site for the quadriceps muscles.
What is the Tibial Tuberosity?
Skull bone visible in the center of the nasal cavity.
What is the Vomer?
The functional classification of freely moveable joints found throughout the body, structurally known as synovial.
What are Diarthrotic joints?
A common term for fibrofatty tissue nodules in the sacral region.
What are Back Mice?
Bony landmark of the anterior pelvis, easily palpable to each side of the navel/umbilicus.
What is the ASIS(anterior superior iliac spine)?
A bone of the foot that carries the weight of the whole body.
What is the Calcaneus?
Bony prominence at the center of the posterior, inferior skull.
What is the External Occipital Protuberance?
A synovial joint shape found only at the first carpometacarpal joint of the thumb.
What is a Saddle joint?
This bone "floats' on the posterior rib cage and has 17 muscles attaching to it.
What is the Scapula?
Shallow space between the Greater Trochanter and the neck of the Femur.
What is the Trochanteric Fossa?
The largest tarsal bone(not including the calcaneus and talus), located on the lateral foot.
What is the Cuboid?
Bone of the medial eye socket, in the region of the tear duct.
What is the Lacrimal bone?
A hard sensation felt at the end of normal ROM when 2 bones make contact.
What is Bony End Feel?
The gaps between the skull bones of a newborn.
What is a Fontanel?
Muscle attachment site between the medial epicondyle and the medial supracondylar line of the femur.
What is the Adductor Tubercle?
Small, shallow space at the distal, medial fibula?
What is the Fossa of the Lateral Malleolus?