Synovial Joints
The slippery cartilage that helps synovial joints move
What is Hyaline Articular Cartilage?
Decreasing the angle of a joint and increasing the angle of a joint
What are flexion and extension?
A pad of fibrocartilage that allows slight mobility
What is a Symphysis?
Glenohumeral Joint, Femoroacetabular Joint
What are the two main Ball and Socket Joints?
The disease state where you lose Cartilage in Synovial joints
What is Osteoarthritis?
Bringing a body part towards the midline of the body and away from the midline of the body
What are adduction and abduction?
A short fiber joint that is much like a peg in a hole
What is a Gomphosis?
Elbow, Knee, Phalangeal Joints
What are some of the major hinges?
The shape of Synovial joints with the greatest range of mobility
What are ball and socket joints?
Pointing the toes up and down
The type of joint with long fibers that allows slight mobility
What is a Syndesmosis?
Pubis-Pubis, Intervertebral Discs
The major examples of Symphyses
The shape of Synovial joint that includes the thumb, ankle, and wrist to forearm. This shape involves very good movement forward and back, decent movement side to side, and not great movement in a circle
What is a saddle joint?
Having the palms turn up and turning the palms down
What are Supination and Pronation?
The mobility classification that means that a joint has 0 wiggle room
What is a Synarthrosis?
The Costal Cartilage is an example of this
What is a Synchondrosis?
The structures that connect the two bones together (made of dense regular CT), and the small squishy pouches that cushion them
What are ligaments and bursa?
Raising a body part and lowering a body part
What are elevation and depression?
The mobility classification that means that joint is fully moveable in some way
What is a Diarthrosis?
The joint type that applies to the facets of the spine, the carpal-carpal joints, and the tarsal-tarsal joints