Bony Marking Terms
Vertebral Column
Thoracic Cage
Sternum
100

A narrow ridge of a bone

What is a Crest?

100

Vertebra that has a long spinous process, a heart-shaped vertebral body, and articulates with the ribs.

What is T1-T12 aka the Thoracic Vertebrae?

100
The name of the ribs that are not attached to the sternum at all.

What are the vertebral ribs/floating ribs/ribs 11&12?

100

The number of pieces that make up the sternum?

What is 3?

200

A canal-like passageway

What is a meatus?

200

The vertebrae that experience the most stress. They have the largest vertebral bodies.

What are L1-L5? or the Lumbar Vertebrae.

200

The name of the ribs attached to the 7th rib via costal cartilage.

What are the vertebrochondral ribs/ribs 8-10/false ribs?

200

The name of the trapezoid-shaped superior structure of the sternum that articulates with the cartilages of the 1st pair of ribs.

What is the Manubrium?

300

A bulging projection of a larger bone

What is a process?

300

These vertebra have transverse foramen in addition to the vertebral foramen. They only support the weight of the skull. 

What are C3-C7 or the Cervical vertebra?

300

The name of the ribs directly attached to the sternum via costal cartilage.

What are the Vertebrosternal Ribs/True ribs/ ribs 1-7?

300
The middle bone of the sternum that allows for the attachment of ribs 2-7

What is the body of the sternum?

400

A round opening through a bone.

What is a foramen?
400

These parts of the thoracic vertebra articulates with the ribs.

What are the costal facets?

400

The parts of the ribs that articulate with the thoracic vertebra?

What is the head/capitulum and the tubercle of rib?
400

The most inferior bone of the sternum.

What is the xiphoid process?
500
A shallow depression in a bone

What is a fossa?

500

The name for the part that links the transverse processes to the spinous process

What are the Laminae?
500

The structure connecting the ribs to the sternum.

What is costal cartilage?

500
The name of the attachment site of the clavicle to the sternum.

What is the clavicular notch?