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Skeletal Features

I). Classification

A). Location

1). Axial

2). Appendicular

B). Shape

1). Long bones  

2). Short bones 

                         (Sesamoid bones are special short bones: patella)

3). Flat bone: 

4). Irregular bones

C). Surface Features of the Bone

1). Projections that form joints

a). Head

b). Facet

c). Condyle

d). Ramus

2). Sites of muscle & ligament attachment.

a). Tuberosity

b). Crest

c). Trochanter

d). Line

e). Tubercle

f). Epicondyle

g). Spine

h). Process

3). Depressions and openings that allow blood

vessels and nerves to pass

a). Meatus

b). Fissure

c). Foramen

d). Sinus

4). Depressions

a). Fossa

b). Grove

c) Notch

skeleton  from:  http://www.rpg-project.com/pages/povani.htm