Anatomy Lab Objectives Exercise 2 Skeletal System

SKELETAL TERMINOLOGY (I recommend these be defined before you come to lab – Dr. Brown)

Projections that are sites of muscle and ligament attachment

Tuberosity

Crest

Trochanter

Line

Tubercle

Epicondyle

Spine

Process

Surfaces that form joints:

Head

Facet

Condyle

Ramus

Depressions and Openings:

Foramen

Groove

Fissure

Notch

Others: Fossa

Meatus

Sinus

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SKULL MODEL

Identify and know:

Saggital suture
Coronal suture
Lambdoid suture
Squamous suture
Parietal bone
Temporal bone
Zygomatic process
External acoustic meatus
Mastoid process
Styloid process
Occipital bone
Occipital condyles
Formen magnum
Frontal bone
Sphenoid bone
Sella turcica (name only, not individual parts)
Ethmoid bone
Cribriform plate
Crista galli
Perpendicular plate
Middle nasal conchae
Lacrimal bone
Nasal bone
Zygomatic bone
Inferior nasal concha
Hard palate
Palatine bone
Maxilla bone
Alveolar margins
Mandible
Alveolar margins
Vomer

MAKE SURE YOU CAN IDENTIFY STRUCTURES FROM ANY ANGLE – TOP, BOTTOM, SIDE, OR
INTERIOR OF SKULL

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VERETEBRAE MODELS

Know the types and how many there are of each type.

Cervical – 7 Sacral - 5
Thoracic – 12 Coccyx - 4
Lumbar -5

Identify and Know:

General vertebrae structures:
spinous process
transverse process
body
vertebral foramen
transverse foramina (cervical only)

Specific vertebrae:
Atlas (C1) (be able to identify on sight)
Axis (C2) )be able to identify on sight)
Dens / odontoid process
Cervical vertebrae
Thoracic vertebrae
Lumbar vertebrae
Sacrum
Sacral foramina
Coccyx

Be able to identify the types of vertebrae by looking at them (cervical, thoracic, lumbar).

Hints:
Cervical vertebrae are thinner and smaller, have a large, triangular vertebral foramen and have
transverse foramina. The atlas and axis are distinctive cervical vertebrae that you should be
able to identify specifically.

Thoracic vertebrae have a sharply sloping spinous process, and have a smaller, round vertebral
foramen.

Lumbar vertebrae are very large, have a blunt, short spinous process, a triangular vertebral
foramen, and the superior / inferior articulating processes are rotated inward.

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Mandible, Hyoid, Sternum, Ribs

Identify and Know:

Mandible
Alveolar margins

Sternum
Manubrium
Xiphoid process
Body

Ribs
True ribs
False ribs
Floating ribs

FETAL SKULL
Identify and know:
Anterior fontanel
Posterior fontanel
Frontal bone
Frontal suture
Parietal bone
Coronal suture
Occipital bone
Temporal bone

CLAVICLE AND SCAPULA MODELS

Identify and Know:

Clavicle:
Acromial end
Conoid tubercle
Sternal end

Scapula:
Glenoid cavity
Spine
Coracoid process
Acromion

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HUMERUS, ULNA, RADIUS, HAND MODELS

Identify and Know:

Humerus:
Head
Anatomical neck
Surgical neck
Greater tubercle
Lesser tubercle
Intertubercular sulcus
Deltoid tuberosity
Capitulum
Trochlea
Olecronon fossa
Lateral epicondyle
Medial epicondyle

Ulna:
Olecronon process
Styloid process

Radius:
Radial tuberosity
Head
Neck
Styloid process

Hand:
Carpals
Metacarpals
Phalanges

PELVIC GIRDLE MODEL

Identify and know:

Pubic bone:
Pubic symphysis

Ilium:
Iliac crest
Greater sciatic notch
Lesser sciatic notch
Anterior superior iliac spine

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Ilium continued
Anterior inferior iliac spine
Posterior superior iliac spine
Posterior inferior iliac spine

Ischium:
Ischial spine
Ischial tuberosity

Acetabulum
Obturator foramen

FEMUR, PATELLA, TIBIA, FIBULA, FOOT MODELS

Identify and know:
Femur:
Head
Fovea capitis
Neck
Greater trochanter
Lesser trochanter
Linea aspera
Medial condyle
Lateral condyle
Medial epicondyle
Lateral epicondyle
Patellar surface

Patella

Tibia:
Medial condyle
Lateral condyle
Intercondylar eminence
Tibial tuberosity
Medial malleolus

Fibula: Lateral malleolus

Foot: Tarsals
Talus
Calcaneus
Metatarsals
Phalanges