Bone Markings

Bony expansion on a narrow neck 

• Head
• Trochanter
• Line
• Process

A furrow, usually to surround and support veins, capilaries or nerves

• fissure
• groove
• tubercle
• trochanter

A narrow slit-like opening

• fissure
• foramen
• meatus
• ovale

A very large, blunt, irregularly shaped surface

• tubercle
• trochanter
• tuberosity
• meatus

A very large, blunt, irregularly shaped surface

• tubercle
• trochanter
• tuberosity
• meatus

A round or oval opening through a bone

• meatus
• foramen
• fissure
• trochanter

sinus

• A cavity within a bone, filled with air and lined with mucus membrane
• a slit like opening
• a cavity within a bone lined with connective tissue

Epiphysis

• The shaft of a bone
• a bone cell
• the end of the bone
• the cavity filled with bone marrow

small, nearly flat articular surface

• condyle
• fossa
• facet
• fontanel

Rounded process

• fontanel
• condyle
• facet
• fossa