Types
This is connected to tissue, is immovable, or slightly movable
Fibrous Joint
What joint has the following features:
Capsule
Membrane
Cartilage
Cavity with fluid
Synovial
Where are ball-and-socket joints located?
Shoulder and hip
What is it called when you point your toes downward?
Plantarflexion
Two words that represent moving your palms face up and down
Supination and pronation
What type of joint is can be immovable, slightly movable, and/or freely movable.
Synovial joint
Which joint has the following features:
Connected to tissue
Immovable/limited mobility
Fibrous
Where are hinge joints located?
Fingers, knees, elbows, and toes
What region is the back of the elbow located in?
Olecranon
What is superficial?
Points closer to the surface
This is another way to classify an immovable synovial joint
Synarthrotic
Which joint has the following features:
Joined by cartilage
Slightly movable
Cartilaginous
Where are gliding joints located?
Spine, wrists, and ankles
What region is the armpit in?
Axillary
What is ipsilateral
Two points residing on the same side
This is another way to classify a freely movable synovial joint
Diarthrotic
Which joint has the following features:
Ball shaped
Type of Synovial joint
Allows wide range of motion
Ball-and-socket joint
Where is the saddle joints located?
Thumb, middle ear, thorax, and the heel
What is the simpler identification for the popliteal region?
Back of the knee
What is another word for inferior?
Caudal
This is another way to classify a slightly movable synovial joint
Amphiarthrotic
Which joint has the following features:
Temporary or permanent
Joined by cartilage
Syndchondroses
Where are the pivot joints located?
Neck, elbow, wrist
Where is the cervical region?
Back of the neck
Describe the anatomical position
standing upright in full view, arms by side with palms facing forward and wide open, face forward, feet flat and parallel