Based on shape and size
- Long bone
  - More similar to a body
    - Humerus , arm bone , power bone , strength bone
    - femur , thigh bone ,
  - More similar to pillar
    - Tibia , radius , pillar bone , weight bone , shinbone
  - Shaped like an s
    - Clavicle , collar bone , horizontal bone
  - Shaped like a screw
    - Ulna , screw bone , snake bone
  - Very slender almost like a stick
    - Fibula , stick bone , calf bone
- Short bones
  - Resembling a curved shape like a boat or moon
    - Scaphoid , lunate , navicular ,
    - hyoid , tongue bone , u bone
    - palatine bone , mouth roof bone
  - Resembling a solid 4 sided structure
    - Trapezium , trapezoid , cuboid
  - Resembling a wedge
    - Cuneiform , wedge bone
  - Resembling a three sided structure
    - Triquetral , vomer
  - Resembling a hook
    - Hamate , hook bone
  - resembling a solid bar
  - phalanges , talus
- Flat bones
  - Resembling a cup shaped structure
    - Frontal bone , parietal bone , head roof bone , forehead bone
  - Resembling a flat triangular plate like
    - Scapula , shoulder blade
  - Resembling a flat ribbon like
    - Ribs , ribbon bone
  - Resembling a flat sword like structure
    - Sternum , chest blade ,
- Irregular but resembling a natural shape
  - Resembling a bird
    - Sphenoid , bird bone , bat bone , wing bone
  - Resembling a bike handle
    - Mandible , upper jaw bone , L bone
  - Resembling a chicken head
    - Temporal bone , sound bone ,
  - Resembling a Christmas tree
    - Sacrum , coccyx , tail bone , sacred bone ,
  - Resembling a curved flat and irregular
    - Pelvic bone
    - pubic bone , sex bone
    - ischium , sit bone
    - ilium , haunch bone

BONE PARTS

A convex projection from a surface either
- convex and round
  - Epicondyle
    - Medial epicondyle , lateral epicondyle ,
  - Condyle
    - occipital condyle , medial condyle ,
- Convex but irregular
  - Either on sides
    - Tubercle
      - articular tubercle , rib tubercle , greater tubercle , lesser tubercle, pubic tubercle , iliac tubercle , adductor tubercle , conoid tubercle, infra glenoid tubercle
    - Tuberosity
      - delotid tuberosity , ischial tuberosity , radial tuberosity , ulnar tuberosity
    - Trochanter
      - greater trochanter , lesser trochanter
  - Or in middle
    - Intertubercular eminence , median eminence
- Straight but blunt
  - mastoid proces , coracoid process , styloid process , odontoid process , transverse process , spinous process
- straight and sharp
  - Spine
    - spinous process , spine of scapula , anterior or posterior iliac spine , ischial spine
- more curved
  - acromion process
- Promontory

A depressed or concave superficies which can either accomodate a small or large part
- more larger
  - Glenoid cavity , acetabulum ,
  - Fossa
    - pterygopalatine fossa ,mandibular fossa , supraspinous fossa , infraspinous fossa , coronoid fossa , cranial fossa , radial fossa , olecranon fossa
- More smaller
  - Notch
    - radial notch , sternal notch , suprascapular notch , ulnar notch , trochlear notch , fibular notch
- more elongated in size
  - Groove
    - radial groove , intertubercular groove , bicipital groove , mylohyoid groove , costal groove , subclavian groove
  - Sulcus
    - Radial sulcus , intertubercular sulcus

Edges of superficies either sharp or blunt
Crest
- iliac crest , pubic crest
Ridge
- supracondylar ridge
Linea
- linea aspera , mylohyoid line , trapezoid line

Structure or body of bone being divided in to
- Upper
  - Head of bone / epiphysis
  - Neck / metaphysis
- Middle
  - Shaft/ diaphysis
- Lower
  - Lower end