This action brings a limb closer to the midline of the body
What is adduction?
100
This joint allows flexion and extension in one direction.
What is a Hinge Joint?
100
Injury to a ligament or tendon involving tearing off of its attachment is called this.
What is an avulsion?
200
A joint in which the material used for connecting two components is hyaline cartilage.
What is synchondrosis
200
The Sternum and clavicle articulate at this joint
What is Sternoclavicular joint?
200
This action straightens a joint.
What is extension?
200
Term for a freely movable synovial joint
What is Diarthroses?
200
Term for a flat sac of synovial membrane in which the inner sides of the sac are separated by fluid film.
What is a Bursa?
300
amount of motion available to a joint based on the structure of a joint and determined by the shape of joint surfaces, joint capsule, ligaments, muscle bulk, and surrounding musculotendinous and bony structures is
What is Anatomic ROM?
300
The joint where the leg and foot connect
What is the talocrural joint
300
This action brings a limb further away from the midline of the body.
What is abduction?
300
The kind of joint allows movement in many directions around a central point? Gives greatest freedom of movement.
What is Ball and Socket (diarthroses)
300
Form of flexible connective tissue (hyaline, fibro-, and elastic)
What is cartilage?
400
connective tissue fiber type that has elastic properties and allows flexibility of connective tissue structures
What is Elastin?
400
The Femur and Tibia articulate at this joint
What is Femorotibial joint?
400
This bends a joint or increases the angle
What is flexion?
400
A slightly movable joint that connects bone to bone with fribrocartilage or hyaline growth cartilage. Two types in human body are symphyses and synchrondoses.
What are Amphiarthroses?
400
A connective tissue that permits little motion in joints and structures, if found in places such as intervertebral disks, and forms our ears.
What is Fibrocartilage?
500
Involuntary movement that occurs between articular surfaces, are separate from range of motion of a joint produced by muscles, and must occur for normal functioning of the joint.
What is Joint play?
500
The Humerus and Scapula articulate here
What is GlenoHumeral joint?
500
Internal rotation is also known as what other kind of rotation?
What is medial rotation?
500
This is another term for joint, or an area of the body that connects two parts of a structure and allow for movement
What is an articulation?
500
Thin covering of articular connective tissue on the ends of bones in freely movable joints in the adult skeleton.