Fibrous Joints
Three types of fibrous joints
What are sutures, gomphoses, and syndemoses?
Two joint types that include cartilage
What are cartilaginous and synovial cartilage types?
Six structural types of synovial joints
What are plane, hinge, pivot, condylar, saddle, and ball& socket joints?
Three functions of synovial fluid
What are lubrication, transportation of nutrients, and shock absorption?
Synarthrosis, Amphiarthrosis, Diarthrosis
What are the functional classifications of fibrous joints?
The two types of cartilaginous joints
What are synchondrosis and symphysis?
The synovial fluid-filled fibrous structure that minimizes friction between moving parts of joints
What is a bursa?
A strand of dense regular collagenous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone
What is a tendon?
The type of joint between each tooth and the bony socket in the jaw
What is a gamphosis?
Two joints that are joined by fibrocartaliginous pads
What are intervetebral joints and the pubis symphysis joint?
The functional class of joints that are freely movable
What are diarthrosis joints?
The only joint classification that has a joint space.
What is a synovial joint?
Type of functional joint classification of the joint that joins skull bones.
These are called...
What is a synarthrosis joint?
What are sutures?
Epiphyseal plates are located in this type of cartilaginous joint.
What is a synchondrosis joint?
The largest & most complex joint
What is the knee joint?
Weight bearing ball-&-socket joint
What is the hip joint?
The type of joint that join the fibula & tibia bones and radius & ulna bones
What is a syndesmosis joint?
To allow for expansion of the female pelvic girdle during childbirth.
Why is the female pubic symphysis amphiarthrotic?
The type of synovial joint that allows for uniaxial movement with a rounded end that fits into a groove
Two bones involved in the cervical spine
What is a pivot joint?
What are the atlas and axis vertebral bones?