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SECTION

Shape

A Complete the following tables.

SECTION 1

1

B I loscribe the shape of the following. The first two have been done for you.

pear___-shaped

-shaped

-shaped

-shaped

-shaped

-shaped

-shaped

-shaped

-shaped

-shaped

('■ Match up the shape with the part of the body.

Immel-shaped. pear-shaped dome-shaped t u hu la i hoop-shaped lapering wedge-shaped horseshoe-shaped pyramidal (Tshaped

bars of cartilage in the trachea

hyoid bonę

orbit

atlas (lst vertebra) sacrum and coccyx femur diaphragm uterus

infundibulum (fallopian tubes)

P

Anatomical descriptions normally include a description of shape. There is a large number of possible shape descriptions as in C above. Many shapes are described as letter-shaped (A-shaped etc.) or as easily recognized object shapes [star-shaped, kidney-shaped etc.). You will no doubt meet