Bones
Decreases the angle between two bones.
What is flexion?
The knee, elbow, and phalanges of the fingers and toes are all ___ ____.
What is a hinge joint?
Known as the study of joints.
What is arthrology?
Lifting the body part superiorly.
What is elevation?
Imaginary lines, vertical or horizontal, drawn through an upright body.
What is an anatomical plane?
The fibula and tibia in the lower leg are an example of ____.
What is a gomphoses?
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
Joints have two main functions. They allow motion, and at the same time provide ____.
What is stability?
Moves the thumb to touch the tips of the other fingers.
What is opposition?
Toward the midline of the body?
What is medial?
The hips and ______ can swing in almost any direction.
What are shoulders?
The only saddle joint is in the ___.
What is the thumb?
Freely movable joint in which a bone moves around a central axis, crating a rotational movement.
What is a pivot joint?
Moving away from the midline of the body.
What is abduction?
Divides the body or any of its parts into upper and lower parts.
What is the axial plane?
Occurs when a bone turns on its axis toward or away from the midline of the body.
What is rotation?
An example of this joint is the joint between the radius and ulna of the lower arm.
What is a pivot joint?
Allows 18 different types of movements.
What is a synovial joint?
Occurs in a transverse plane moving the body part forward.
Divides the body or any of its parts into right and left sides.
What is the sagittal plane?
The convex surface of one bone fits into the ____ surface of the second bone in a hinge joint.
What is a concave?
What is a gliding joint?
Joint that can be found at the metacarpals and phalanges, and between the metatarsals and phalanges.
What is a condyloid/ellipsodial joint?
The ability of a limb to move in a circular path around an axis.
What is circumduction?
Divides the body or any of its parts into anterior and posterior portions.
What is the coronal plane?