Biological Anthropology - LE 6.5 (Chapter 6)
Follow your scapular spine laterally. What feature is at its end?
Acromion process.
From a sitting position, put your hand on your kneecap (patella). Move your hand distally just an inch or so. What is the next bump that you can feel? What is the feature, and on what bone?
Anterior tibial tuberosity, on tibia.
Put your hands on your hips. What bone, and what part of the bone, are your hands on? Innominate bone, iliac crest
Innominate bone, iliac crest.
Follow one of your cheekbones posteriorly toward your ear. What feature runs along that path, and on what two bones?
Zygomatic arch of zygomatic and temporal bones.
What is the bump on your skull just posterior to your ear?
Mastoid process.
What features make up the bumps that you can feel along the midline of your back? Spinous processes of vertebrae
Spinous processes of vertebrae.
Your eyebrows lie on what bone, and on what feature? (This feature usually is more pronounced on males.)
Supraorbital ridge of frontal bone.
Name the bone (and the feature if possible) for each of the following: a. The bump on the back of your wrist (posterior, medial). Head of ulna b. The bump on your inner ankle. Tibia, medial malleolus c. The bump on your outer ankle. Fibula, lateral malleolus d. Your knuckles. Proximal ends of metacarpal bones e. Your elbow. f. Your knee. g. Your chin.
a. head of ulna. b. tibia, medial malleolus. c. fibula, lateral malleolus. d. proximal ends of metacarpal bones. e. ulna, olecranon process. f. patella. g. mandible, mental eminence.