SOME ANATOMICAL PROJECTION TERMS
If you picture in your mind the meaning of each word, it will be easier to identify some bones’
projections:
FORAMEN: Opening, orifice.
Optic Foramen, foramen rotundum, foramen ovale, foramen
Spinosum, foramen lacerum, internal auditory canal, jugular
Foramen, hypoglossal canal and foramen Magnum.
FOSSA: A shallow depression.
FOVEA: A pit or cuplike depression.
PROCESS: A projection or outgrowth of bone or tissue
CONDYLE: A rounded protuberance at the end of a bone forming an
Articulation.
SINUS: A cavity within a bone
PROTUBERANCE: A part that is prominent beyond a surface (bulge)
CORONOID: Shaped like a crown, curved.
CORACOID: Shaped like a crow’s beak.
TROCHLEA: Ring or hook through which a tendon or muscle projects.
TUBEROSITY: An elevated round process of a bone or nodule.
Try to identify these 4 projections. Some of these words apply to different bones
Carotid Canal: Skull, inferior view, through which carotid arteries enters to supply
Head.
Coronoid Process: Identify one for the mandible and another for the ulna.
Conoid Tubercle: Clavicle
Coracoid Process: Scapula.
Ericka Soto, 1/21/08
FIERRO
BIOL 2327
SKELETAL SYSTEM 1
