types of synovial joints
Type of synovial joint located in the shoulder.
What is ball and socket?
Movement the ball and socket joint allows.
What are rotating movements?
Fibrous joints allow the connection between what.
What are bones?
Cartilaginous joints are bones connected by
What is cartilage?
Describes where things are in the body in relation to other structures locations
What is directional terms?
Type of synovial joint located in the elbow.
What is hinge?
Movement the hinge joint allows.
What are flexion and extension?
Fibrous joints are connected by.
What is fibrous tissue?
Cartilaginous joints lack
What is joint cavity?
Towards the midline
What is medial?
Type of synovial joint located in the atlas/axis.
What is pivot?
Movement pivot joints allow
What is rotation, pronation, and supination?
Fibrous joints do not require
What is a lot of movement?
Range of motion of cartilaginous joints.
What is not usually movable?
Near the front of the body
What is anterior?
Type of synovial joint located in the thumb.
What is saddle?
Movement the saddle joint allows.
What is flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, circumduction, and slight rotation.
Range of motion in fibrous joints.
What is immovable or slightly movable?
Type of cartilaginous joint that contains hyaline cartilage and are found in the epiphyseal plate of children.
What is synchondroses?
Moving upwards or in the direction of the head
What is superior?
Type of synovial joint located in the phalanges.
What is ellipsoidal/condylar?
Movement the ellipsoidal/condylar joints allow.
What is forward, backward, and side to side?
Types of fibrous joints include
What are sutures, syndesmoses, and gomphoses?
Type of cartilaginous joint that contains fibrocartilage which is compressible and act as shock absorbers.
What is sympheses?
Close to where the body part originates/closer to the trunk of the body
What is proximal?