TCDHA Orofacial II - Skeletal System Top Predicted Questions and Correct Answers 2024

condyle - relatively large, convex, oval, typically located at joints/articulations tuberosity - large, rough prominence, area for muscle and tendon attachment head - rounded, projecting from bone by a neck arch - prominent, shaped like a bridge cornu - small, horn like tubercle / eminence - small rounded elevation crest - roughened border or ridge on the bone surface line - straight small ridge of bone spine - abrupt, may be blunt or sharply pointed incisura / notch - indentation at the edge of the bone sulcus / sulci - shallow depression or groove, usually marks the course of an artery or nerve fossa / fossae - deeper depression, can be portions of joints, attachment of muscles, or other functions foramen / foramina - short, window like opening canal - longer, narrow tube like opening meatus - a type of canal, big hole fissure - narrow cleft like opening, crevice ostium / ostia - small opening, into a hollow organ or canal, small opening aperture - opening or orifice in bone articulation - - where bones are joined to each other - areas can either be movable or immovable type of joint suture - - union of bones by fibrous tissue - generally immovable - most flexible in infants coronal suture - the suture between the parietal and frontal bones of the skull sagittal suture - the suture between the parietal bones lambdoidal suture - the suture that separates parietal bones from occipital bone squamosal suture - the suture between temporal and parietal bones temporozygomatic suture - the suture between temporal and zygomatic bones