TCDHA OROFACIAL II MIDTERM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
bones
- protect soft tissues
- biomechanical basis for movement along with muscles, tendons and ligaments
- considered in spread of dental infection (periapical abscess)
bony prominence
aka a process
- landmarks for attachments of muscles, tendons, and ligaments
- condyle,
- tuberosity,
- head,
- arch,
- cornu,
- tubercle/eminence,
- crest,
- line,
- spine
condyle
- large, convex, oval
,- located at joints/articulations
tuberosity
- large, rough prominence
- area for muscle & tendon attachment
head
- rounded
- projecting from a 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
bony depressions
- incisura/notch
- sulcus
- fossa
incisura/notch
indentation at the edge of the bone
sulcus/sulci
shallow depression or groove
- usually marks the course of blood vessels or nerves
, fossa/fossae
- deeper depression
- can be portions of joints, attachment of muscles or have other functions
bony openings
- foramen
- canal
- meatus
- fissure
- ostium
- aperture
foramen/foramina
- short
- window like opening
canal
- longer, narrow tube like opening
meatus
a type of CANAL
bones
- protect soft tissues
- biomechanical basis for movement along with muscles, tendons and ligaments
- considered in spread of dental infection (periapical abscess)
bony prominence
aka a process
- landmarks for attachments of muscles, tendons, and ligaments
- condyle,
- tuberosity,
- head,
- arch,
- cornu,
- tubercle/eminence,
- crest,
- line,
- spine
condyle
- large, convex, oval
,- located at joints/articulations
tuberosity
- large, rough prominence
- area for muscle & tendon attachment
head
- rounded
- projecting from a 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
bony depressions
- incisura/notch
- sulcus
- fossa
incisura/notch
indentation at the edge of the bone
sulcus/sulci
shallow depression or groove
- usually marks the course of blood vessels or nerves
, fossa/fossae
- deeper depression
- can be portions of joints, attachment of muscles or have other functions
bony openings
- foramen
- canal
- meatus
- fissure
- ostium
- aperture
foramen/foramina
- short
- window like opening
canal
- longer, narrow tube like opening
meatus
a type of CANAL
