Medical Terminology
The structure that is behind another structure
What is posterior?
The joint with the widest range of motion
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
The joint that allows flexion and extension
What is a hinge joint?
Inflammation of synovial bursa
What is bursitis?
The plane that splits the body into left and right
What is the sagittal plane?
The top side of a structure
The joint only in one specific part of the body
What is a saddle joint?
The joint that allows forward-backward and side to side motion
What is a condyloid (ellipsoidal) joint?
Inflammation of the entire joint
What is arthritis?
What is the frontal plane?
Swelling in the joint
What is effusion?
The joint that allows rotation around a single axis
What is a pivot joint?
The joint that allows the bones to glide past one another in any direction along the joint plane
What is a gliding joint?
A degenerative joint disease
What is osteoarthritis?
The plane that splits the body into up and down
What is the transverse plane?
The pain produced when structure is palpitated
What is point tenderness?
An immovable joint
What is a synarthroses joint?
The study of joints
What is arthrology?
A connective-tissue disorder
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
the pain felt somewhere other than its origin
What is referred pain?
A slightly moveable joint
What is an amphiarthroses joint?
A freely moveable joint
What is a diarthroses (synovial) joint?
A disease involving a bacterial infection
What is rheumatic fever?
Movement at the end of chain, farthest from body, is free
What is an open kinematic chain?