Joints & Articulations

What are joints?

• A place where one bone meets 
• A place where two bones meet 
• Bones don't meet 
• They connect bone to muscle

Joints are also called...

• annotations
• articulations
• affectations
• affiliations

Which of the following is an example of a slightly movable joint?

• shoulder
• elbow
• vertebrae
• thumb

Hip and shoulder have examples of this type of joint...

• ball and socket
• condyloid
• hinge
• gliding

The elbows, knees and phalanges are examples of this type of joint

• ball and socket
• condyloid
• gliding
• hinge

This type of joint allows the first two vertebrate to rotate as in shaking your head no

• condyloid
• gliding
• pivot
• saddle

The knee joint is a...

• Hinge
• Gliding
• Ball and socket
• Pivot

Joints between skull bones

• diarthrotic/synovial
• fibrous/suture
• amphiarthrotic/epiphyseal disk

Pubic symphysis

• fibrous/
• synovial
• cartilaginous

Freely movable joint

• diarthrosis
• amphiarthrosis
• synarthosis