Joints
This joint is freely movable
What is a Synovial Joint?
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What is the number of bones in the average human body?
The connective tissue found at the ends of bones, between bones and the external ear.
What is cartilage?
What is a ball & socket?
Type of cartilage found between bones to absorb shock.
What is Fibrocartilage? (meniscus & vertebral disc)
Makes up the sutures in the skull; immovable
What is a fibrous joint?
The bones of the spine, thorax and skull
What is the Axial skeleton
Connects Bone To Bone.
What is a ligament?
The elbow or knee is an example of this joint.
What is a hinge joint?
The fundamental unit of muscle responsible for contraction; where the sliding filament is located.
What is the Sarcomere?
What are cartilaginous joints?
The bones of the extremities.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
Connects Muscle to Bone
What is a Tendon?
Involuntary muscle that is found in most organs.
What is smooth muscle?
This structure creates body movement, helps with balance, and protects organs.
What is muscle?
sleevelike ligament that surrounds the entire joint
What is the joint capsule
What is protect, support movement and produce blood cells?
Two functions of cartilage.
What is absorbs shock and allows smooth movement?
Large muscle found in the shoulder and helps with abduction, forward flexion and extension.
Muscles that work in conjunction. One creates movement while the other must relax.
What is the prime mover and the antagonist?
thin layer of cushioning found at the end of long bones
What is hyaline cartilage
The large bone found in the thigh.
What is the femur?
The type of cartilage found in the external ear and larynx.
What is elastic cartilage?
Synovial joint that allows back and forth, and side to side motion, but not rotational i.e. thumb joint
What is a saddle joint?
This structures main purpose is to provide stability at a joint.
What is a ligament?