Bone Vocabulary

knoblike process usually larger than a turbercle

• Trochanter

• Tuberosity

• process

• Condyle

A rounded process

• Turbercle

• Head

• Fossa

• Condyle

A tubelike passageway within bone

• Ramus

• foramen

• Meatus

• Sinus

Head

• A projection situated above a condyle

• An enlargement on the end of a bone

• A relatively large process

• A relatively deep pit or depression

Epicondyle

• A projection situated above a condyle

• An enlargement on the end of a bone

• A relatively large process

• A relatively deep pit or depression

Spine

• A branch or similar extension

• A thorn-like projection

• A cavity within bone

• Interlocking line of union between bones

a small knoblike process

• Tuberosity

• Process

• Trochanter

• Turbercle

Relatively large process.

• Trochanter

• Turbercle

• Fovea

• Meatus

Fossa

• A projection situated above a condyle

• An enlargement on the end of a bone

• A relatively large process

• A relatively deep pit or depression

Process

• A soft spot in the skull where membranes cover the spaces between bones

• An opening through a bone that usually serves as a passageway for blood vessels, nerves or ligament

• A prominent projection on bone

• A small knoblike process