2024 Joints

What are joints

• A place where one bone meets

• A place where two bones meet

• Bones don't meet

• A place where three bones meet

What are immovable joints called?

What are the joints called that have some degree of movement but not a lot?

The most common joints in your arms and legs are these. They have the highest degree of movement and are freely movable.

Match the following

• Connected by a joint cavity

• Cartilaginous joints

• Solid bone with no movement (rare)

• Bony fusion

• Connected by cartilage

• Fibrous joints

• Connected by dense connective tissue

• Synovial joints

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periosteum

synovial membrane

fibrous capsule

bone

synovial cavity

articular cartilage

All of the following are hinge joints EXCEPT:

• knee (tibia/femur)

• elbow (humerus/ulna)

• between the phalanges

• wrist (radius/carpals)

• hip (coxal/femur)

The joint which allows the maximum movement is the

• Slightly movable joint

• Ball and socket joint

• hinge joint

• Gliding joint

Where is a ball and socket joint located ?

• shoulder (glenohumeral)

• atlantoaxial (C1/C2)

• elbow (humerounar)

• wrist (radiocarpal)

• shoulder

  (acromio-clavicular)

This type of joint allows the your first vertebra to rotate or spin as in shaking your head no....

• condyloid

• gliding

• pivot

• saddle