Joint Basics
Functional junctions between bones that enable movement and growth.
What are Joints?
Fibrous joints are held together by layers of this tissue.
What is Dense Connective Tissue?
Moving a body part toward the midline.
What is adduction?
Joint with nearly flat surfaces allowing gliding movement.
What is a plane joint?
Straightening a joint beyond normal anatomical position.
What is hyperextension?
Joints can be immovable, slightly movable, or this.
What is Freely Movable?
Cartilaginous joints allow more movement than fibrous joints but less than these.
What are synovial joints?
Rotation of the forearm so the palm faces downward.
What is pronation?
Joint that allows movement in one plane, like a door hinge.
What is a hinge joint?
This type of synovial joint that allows movement in all planes and rotation.
What is a ball‑and‑socket joint?
Joints composed of dense connective tissue
What are Fibrous Joints?
These types of cartilaginous joints are found between vertebrae.
What are symphyses?
Turning the sole of the foot medially.
What is inversion?
Joint that allows rotation around a central axis.
What is a pivot joint?
Ankle movement that brings the foot closer to the shin.
What is dorsiflexion?
Joints composed of cartilage.
What are Cartilaginous Joints?
Fibrous joints are found between bones that lay in this type of contact?
What is close contact?
Moving a part of the body backward.
What is retraction?
Joint with an ovoid condyle fitting into an elliptical cavity.
What is a condylar joint?
This type of joint is connected by either hyaline or fibrocartilage.
What are Cartilaginous Joints?
Joints with a complex structure that allow free movement.
What are Synovial Joints?
The joint between the pubic bones is this type of cartilaginous joint.
What is the pubic symphysis?
Lowering a part of the body.
What is depression?
Joint with complementary concave and convex surfaces, found in the thumb.
What is a saddle joint?
Turning the sole of the foot laterally.
What is eversion?