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So what do we say? learn them or not learn them? How about the parts of the scapula? Or being able to label all the carpals and all the tarsals?

I'm confused. Is there a difference between protruberance and protuberance? on that site SOninja gave, it says protruberance, and I'm not sure that that's a word. And now I'm even more confused. What's the difference between that and a process?

I'm going to eat a little crow here and reverse myself entirely. I have come to the conclusion that for C division at least you need to learn the processes and fossae, but not for the skeletal system. You have to know the origin and insertion of each of the listed muscles, for which you have to know the surface features of the bone. I still wouldn't go nuts with it, but as long as the feature is an attachment site for one of the listed muscles, I would have to say it's fair game.

tclme elmo wrote:I'm confused. Is there a difference between protruberance and protuberance? on that site SOninja gave, it says protruberance, and I'm not sure that that's a word. And now I'm even more confused. What's the difference between that and a process?

To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a protruberance. I believe whoever wrote that word was conflating "protuberance" and "protrusion."

^^If that’s the case, then no offense SOninja, but the site you gave isn’t correct…and then so what’s the difference between protuberance and process?????? Gah!

Process is a general term for a portion of the surface of the bone which is more elevated than the rest. Terms like protuberance, tubercle, malleolus etc. refer to types of processes.

...oops i just assumed that they meant protuberance & i didn't really study it because i thought its name seemed self-explanatory
it's not like i get my info from NIH ...and i haven't been tested on surface features of bone before

meh... you could try the "bone" pg on wikipedia and then skip to section "terminology"-
they have a simple chart there too, without "proturberance" or "protruberance" or whatever
yea, and what flavorflav said

Does anyone know if they will do much muscle diseases at state. I might need to brush up on those, but I still know quite a bit about them. I got second at regionals and they only asked questions like what is this muscle and what is this bone and easy stuff like that.

It really depends on who is running the event. A lot of my tests have been endocrine heavy but my semi state test was more skeletal and muscular.

Well you definitely need to know stuff about the muscular dystrophies (I had questions about them at regionals). You need to know about polio, and also, myasthenia gravis.

They are actually pretty easy to learn if you use the appropriate source. I personally like to use https://health.google.com/health/ref/Myasthenia+gravis

Has everyone been looking at the insertions/origins of all of the muscles? It seems like some of the processes seem more important than others. For example. the origin of the biceps brachii is the coracoid process. A lot of processes serve as origins/insertions. Perhaps those are the processes that we should focus on.