Boney Landmarks

Boney Landmarks

• These are important because they allow for muscle attachment and passage of nerves and vessels

• This allows for the direct connection between the muscular and skeletal system

Vocabulary-The Holes

• Foramen: a hole• Fossa: a wide, smooth, concave surface• Notch: an indentation

Vocabulary-The Bumps

• Process: a structure that sticks out like a pan handle

• Crest: a raised ridge of bone• Tuberosity: a small, rough-to-the-touch bump• Tubercle: a small, round bump that is smooth• Trochanter: large, rough-to-the-touch projection• Condyle: a large swelling on the epiphysis• Epicondyle: a large swelling nearer to the “neck” of

the bone

Skull

Skull

ClavicleBody

RibcageJugular notch

Vertebrae

c

c

c

c

c

c

c

c

Pelvis

Obturator foramen

Ischial tuberosity is your butt bone!

Scapula

Humerus

Olecranon process is on the opposite side of the coronoid process

Radius/Ulna

Hand

Femur

Tibia/Fibula

Foot

Hallux=big toe