Body planes
What plane cuts the body from the top and the bottom
Transverse plane
How many types of Synovial joints are there?
There are 6 different types.
What are the features?
sutures, syndesmoses, and gomphoses
What are these joints connected by?
Cartilage
What type of movement does the ball and socket joint allow?
It keeps the scapula vertical
What is the Coronal plane?
It cuts the body from front to back.
Name the 6 types of joint
Ball and socket, Hinge, Pivot, Ellipoidal/condylar, saddle, gliding
What do these joints lack?
They do not have a joint cavity
What do these joints lack?
They lack a joint cavity and are not usually movable.
What type of movement does the hinge joint allow?
It allows the joint to only rotate one way
How does the Sagittal plane cut the body?
It cuts the body from right to left sides.
How can a Synovial joint be described?
They can be described in three ways; immovable, slightly movable, freely movable
What type of bones do they connect to?
Ones with fibrous tissue
What are the 2 types of Cartilaginous joints?
Sychondroses and Sympheses
What type of movement does the pivot and the ellipsoidal/condlyar allow?
The pivot joint allows the rotation at only one axis. The ellipsoidal/condlyar joint allows rotation on two axes.
What is the Oblique plane?
It cuts the body at an angle from the top to the bottom.
What are the other names for how the joint can be described?
Immovable: synarthrotic
Slightly movable: amphisrthrotic
Freely movable: diathrotic
What is another feature for these joints?
They are slightly immovable or immovable
What is a Sychondroses joint?
They contain hyaline cartilage and are found in the long bones and the first rib. They also allow bone growth in kids.
What type of movement does the saddle joint allow?
It allows rotation in 4 directions.
What plane cuts the body in the middle but not exactly down the middle?
The parasagittal plane
Where can these joints be found in the body?
Shoulder, atlas/axis, elbow, phalanges, thumb, wrist
Where are the features such as sutures, syndesmosis, and gomphosis located at?
Sutures: skull
Syndesmosis: Interosseous
Gomphosis: Teeth
What is a Sympheses joint?
They contain fibrocartilage that act as shock absorbers. They are found in between vertebrae and in the pelvis.
What type of movement does the gliding joint allow?