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Movement
Synovial Joints
Specific Joints
Joint Disorders
Miscellaneous
100

Movement of a joint in only one plane

What is uniaxial

100
Liquid in Synovial joints
What is sinovial fluid
100
Very mobile but unstable joint
What is shoulder joint
100
Most dislocated joint in body
What is the shoulder
100
The way joints are named
According to the bones or parts of bones involved
200

Movement which brings a limb closer to the body

What is adduction

200
Consists of a ball in one bone and a socket of an adjacent bone
What is ball and socket joint
200
Type of joint elbow has
What is hinge joint
200
Dislocation usually fractures bones involved
What is hip dislocation
200

Classification denoting an immovable joint

What is synathrosis

300

Movement of limb where the angle between the bones is decreased

What is flexion

300
Number of types in synovial joints
What is 6
300

Bones of the shoulder joint

What is scapula, clavicle and humerus

300

As you get older, joints tend to become this

What is less flexible

300
Most complex type of joint
What is synovial joint
400

Movement of the lower jaw anteriorly

What is protrusion

400

Synovial joint with multiaxial movement

What is ball and socket joint or plane

400

Joins with the tibia and fibula to form the ankle joint

What is the talus

400
A way to help chronic TMJ pain
What is physical therapy, or drugs, or splints
400

Technical name for the joint which moves the lower jaw

What is the temporomandibular joint

500

The 2 types of joints which allow multiaxial movement

What are plane and ball-and-socket

500

Synovial joints with uniaxial movement

What are hinge and pivot

500

Thick fibrocartilage articular disks in the knee joint

What are menisci

500
Most important proteins related to tissue flexibility (important in ligaments of joints)
What are elastin and collagen
500
Temporary joint that helps growth and fuses into bone at adulthood
What is synchondrosis joint