Definitions
Joint Classification
Synovial Joint Movements
Wild Card
Synovial Joints
100
The study of physical activity or movement.
What is kinesiology?
100
What is a saddle joint?
100
Movement that increases the angle between two bones.
What is extension?
100
Inflammation of the entire joint.
What is arthritis?
100
These are the two ball and socket joints in the body.
What are the hip and the shoulder?
200
The study of joints.
What is arthrology?
200
Another name for freely movable joints that secrete synovial fluid.
What are synovial joints?
200
Movement rotating the wrist so the palm (or sole of the foot) is facing upwards.
What is supination?
200
"Planking" is an example of this position.
What is prone?
200
Location of the only saddle joint in the body.
What is the thumb?
300
The two main function of joints.
What are allow motion and provide stability?
300
Immovable joints such as skull sutures or teeth in skull.
What is synarthrosis?
300
Movement rotating the hand so the palm (or sole of the foot) is facing down.
What is pronation?
300
The name of the position with body standing upright and facing forward with the legs parallel to one another.
What is anatomical position?
300
This causes synovial fluid to be released into synovial joints.
What is movement?
400
A series of joints that allow movement of the human body. A specific system.
What is the articular system?
400
Freely movable joints, AKA synovial joints.
What is diarthrosis?
400
Movement towards the midline.
What is adduction?
400
This plane divides the body into superior and inferior?
What is the transverse plane?
400
A freely movable joint that allows bone to make a sliding motion, either back and forth, or side to side.
What is a gliding joint?
500
The fluid found in diarthrotic joints to lubricate the joint articulation.
What is synovial fluid?
500
Slightly movable joints connected by fibrocartilage.
What is amphiarthrosis?
500
The ability to move in a circular path around an axis.
What is circumduction?
500
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
500
A freely movable joint in which a bone moves around a central axis, creating rotational movement.
What is a pivot joint?