Human Anatomical Position Terms

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Human Anatomical Position Terms
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Animal Anatomical Terms
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Frontal
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Anatomy of Bone Tissue
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Sexing a skeleton

• Brainstorm some physical differences you know
  between males and females. (write them down and
  prepare to share with the class)

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• Big IMPORTANT vocab word.
• Sexual Dimorphism
• Bearing children
• Height
• Subtle features vs. sharp features
• Overall size
• strength

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Pelvis

• Predict which one is male and which is female
• Predict why there is a difference

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Height

• Are men generally taller than women?
• Is this always true?
• Does the average height stay the same around the
  world?
• Have people maintained the same average height
  over time?
• How can height be helpful to sexing a skeleton?

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Male vs. Female skull

• Male
• More robust features
• Square chin
• Angular jaw bone
• More pronounce supra orbital taurus
• Female
• Subtle features
• Rounded chin
• Higher cheeks

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Feature Male Female
General size Large Small
Architecture Rugged Smooth
Supraorbital margin Rounded Sharp
Mastoid process Large Small
Occipital bone Muscle lines and protuberance marked Muscle lines not marked
Glabella Bony Flat
Gonial Angle (Jaw angle) Squared Wide angle

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Aging

• Record what things happen to your body when you
  age?
• Predict what you will see in a skeleton

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Sutures

• Sutures are where joints fuse together.
• A symphysis is a fibrocartilaginous fusion
  between two bones
• Example Mandibular symphysis
• Epiphysial Union
• Femural Head

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Cranial sutures
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Epiphysial and Diaphysis

• The epiphysis is the rounded end of a long bone,
  at its joint with adjacent bone(s)
• The diaphysis is the main or mid section (shaft)
  of a long bone. It is made up of cortical bone
  and usually contains bone marrow and adipose
  tissue

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Epiphyseal Unions
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Dentition

• If available, The best way to tell the age of an
  adult is to look at the teeth.
• You can look at tooth eruption. What teeth have
  emerged from the Jaw?

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Osteoporosis

• If you see evidence of osteoporosis the
  individual has likely lived over 50 years
• Bone spurs
• Stature

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