BONE SURFACE MARKINGS

Depressions and openings: Sites

allowing the passage of soft tissue
Fissure:

Narrow slit between

adjacent parts of a bone through
which blood vessels and nerves
pass
Foramen : Opening through
which blood vessels, nerves or
ligaments pass
Fossa: Shallow depression
Meatus: Tubelike opening

Processes: Projections or
outgrowth on bones
PROCESSES
Condyle:

THAT FORMS JOINTS:

large round
protuberance at the end of the
bone
Facet: smooth flat articular
surface
Head: rounded articular
projection supported on the neck

PROCESSES

THAT FORM ATTACHMENT

POINTS FOR CONNECTIVE TISSUE
Crest: Prominent ridge or elongated
projection
Epicondyle: Projection above a condyle
Line: Long, narrow ridge or border (less
prominent than a crest)
Spinous process: sharp, slender projection
Trochanter: very large projection
Tubercle: small, rounded projection
Tuberosity: Large, rounded, usually
roughened projection