Anatomy: Joints

Question 1

bending parts at a joint so that the angle between them decreases and the parts come closer together

Answer 1

flexion

Question 2

straightening parts at a joint so that the angle between them increases and the parts move father apart

Answer 2

extension

Question 3

excess extension of the parts at a joint, beyond the anatomical position

Answer 3

hyper extension

Question 4

bending the foot at the ankle toward the shin

Answer 4

dorisflexion

Question 5

bending the foot at the ankle toward the sole

Answer 5

plantar flexion

Question 6

moving a part away from the midline

Answer 6

abduction

Question 7

moving a part toward the midline

Answer 7

adduction

Question 8

moving a part around an axis (twisting the head from side to side)

Answer 8

rotation

Question 9

moving a part so that its end follows a circular path (moving the finger in a circle)

Answer 9

circumduction

Question 10

turning the hand so the palm is facing upward or facing anteriorly

Answer 10

supination

Question 11

turning the hand so the palm is downward facing posteriorly

Answer 11

pronation

Question 12

turning the foot so the sole faces laterally

Answer 12

eversion

Question 13

turning the foot so the sole faces medially

Answer 13

inversion

Question 14

moving a part forward (thrusting the chin forward)

Answer 14

protraction

Question 15

moving a part backward (pulling the chin backward)

Answer 15

retraction

Question 16

raising a part (shrugging the shoulders)

Answer 16

elevation

Question 17

lowering a part (drooping the shoulders)

Answer 17

depression

Question 18

what type of joint is the cranium

Answer 18

immovable

Question 19

what type of joint is the neck

Answer 19

pivot

Question 20

what type of joint is the knee

Answer 20

hinge

Question 21

what type of joint is the shoulder

Answer 21

ball-and-socket

Question 22

what type of joint is the wrist

Answer 22

gliding

Question 23

what type of joint disorder results from over stretching or tearing the connective tissue

Answer 23

Sprain

Question 24

what type of joint disorder results from overuse of a joint or stress causes ______, inflammation of a bursa

Answer 24

Bursitis

Question 25

what type of joint disorder is a group of disorders that cause inflamed, swollen, and painful joints

Answer 25

arthritis

Question 26

An autoimmune disorder where the synovial membrane of a joint becomes inflamed and thickened

Answer 26

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Question 27

Degenerative disorder results from aging or poorly healed injury, or inherited

Answer 27

Osteoarthritis (OA)

Question 28

A bacterial infection contracted form a tick bite

Answer 28

Lyme Arthritis

Question 29

what binds parts of the skeletal system, make possible bone growth, permit parts of the skeleton to change shape during birth, enables the body to move in response to skeletal contractions?

Answer 29

Joints

Question 30

Joints are classified by ______ that binds the bones at each junction

Answer 30

tissue

Question 31

What type of joint is made up of dense connective tissue holding them together contains mainly collagenous fibers

Answer 31

fibrous joints

Question 32

What type of joint is composed of hyaline or fibrocartilage, that connects the bones

Answer 32

cartilagious joints

Question 33

What type of joint composed most joints of the skeletal system and allows free movement (diarthrotic)

Answer 33

Synovial joints

Question 34

What type of joint is made up of articular cartilage, joint capsule, synovial membrane (secretes synovial fluid)

Answer 34

Synovial joints

Question 35

Joints are also grouped by the ______ of movement at the bony junctions

Answer 35

degree

Question 36

immoveable-sutures are

Answer 36

synarthrotic

Question 37

slightly moveable-vertebrae are

Answer 37

amphirthrotic

Question 38

highly moveable-shoudlers, hips

Answer 38

diarthrotic

Question 39

What type of joint is affected during aging when bones are close together causing them to fuse

Answer 39

fibrous joints

Question 40

What type of joint is affected during aging when the intervertebral disks may collapse on themselves, which reduces height in the elderly. Also range of motion decreases with stiffening of the spine

Answer 40

cartilaginous

Question 41

What type of joint is affected during aging when fewer capillaries serving the synovial membrane slow the circulation of the synovial fluid. The joint loses elasticity and stiffens.

Answer 41

Synovial

Question 42

checking both sides to test the difference in the injured side vs. the non-injured side

Answer 42

bilateral comparison

Question 43

sprain is an injury to a ______

Answer 43

ligament

Question 44

strain is an injury to a _______

Answer 44

tendon/muscle

Question 45

Injury to the medial collateral ligament, anterior cruciate ligament, and the medial meniscus is called

Answer 45

the Unhappy Triad