Bone Markings
Surface features of bones
– Sites of attachments for muscles, tendons,
and ligaments
– Passages for nerves and blood vessels
Categories of bone markings
– Projections or processes — grow out from the
bone surface
– Depressions or cavities — indentations
Bone Surface Markings
projections where muscles, tendons, ligaments attach
– tuberosity – large rounded projection
– spinous process (or spine) – sharp,
slender, pointed projection
– trochanter – very large, blunt
irregular shaped projection
– crest – narrow ridge of bone
Bone Surface Markings
Projections that help to form
joints
– Head – bony expansion
at the end of a long neck
– Facet – smooth, almost
flat surface
– Condyle – rounded
projection
– Ramus – armlike arm of
bone
Bone Surface Markings
Depressions and openings fro blood vessels
and nerves to pass through
– Foramen – round or
oval opening in a bone
– Meatus – canal-like
– Fossa – shallow depression
mostly to form a joint