Anatomy movement - Glossary and Movement of Joints

Question 1

Abduction

Answer 1

movement in the coronal plane that moves a limb laterally away from the body; spreading
of the fingers

Question 2

Adduction

Answer 2

movement in the coronal plane that moves a limb medially toward or across the midline
of the body; bringing fingers together

Question 3

Circumduction

Answer 3

circular motion of the arm, thigh, hand, thumb, or finger that is produced by the
sequential combination of flexion, abduction, extension, and adduction

Question 4

Depression

Answer 4

downward (inferior) motion of the scapula or mandible

Question 5

Dorsiflexion

Answer 5

Movement at the ankle that brings the top of the foot toward the anterior leg

Question 6

Elevation

Answer 6

upward (superior) motion of the scapula or mandible

Question 7

Eversion

Answer 7

foot movement involving the intertarsal joints of the foot in which the bottom of the foot
is turned laterally, away from the midline

Question 8

Extension

Answer 8

movement in the sagittal plane that increases the angle of a joint (straightens the joint);
motion involving posterior bending of the vertebral column or returning to the upright
position from a flexed position

Question 9

Flexion

Answer 9

movement in the sagittal plane that decreases the angle of a joint (bends the joint);
motion involving anterior bending of the vertebral column

Question 10

Inversion

Answer 10

foot movement involving the intertarsal joints of the foot in which the bottom of the foot
is turned toward the midline

Question 11

Lateral flexion

Answer 11

bending of the neck or body toward the right or left side

Question 12

Lateral (external) rotation

Answer 12

movement of the arm at the shoulder joint or the thigh at the hip joint that moves the
anterior surface of the limb away from the midline of the body

Question 13

Medial (internal) rotation

Answer 13

movement of the arm at the shoulder joint or the thigh at the hip joint that brings the
anterior surface of the limb toward the midline of the body

Question 14

Opposition

Answer 14

thumb movement that brings the tip of the thumb in contact with the tip of a finger

Question 15

Plantar flexion

Answer 15

foot movement at the ankle in which the heel is lifted off of the ground

Question 16

Pronation

Answer 16

forearm motion that moves the palm of the hand from the palm forward to the palm
backward position

Question 17

Protraction

Answer 17

anterior motion of the scapula or mandible

Question 18

Retraction

Answer 18

posterior motion of the scapula or mandible

Question 19

Rotation

Answer 19

movement of a bone around a central axis (atlantoaxial joint) or around its long axis
(proximal radioulnar joint; shoulder or hip joint); twisting of the vertebral column
resulting from the summation of small motions between adjacent vertebrae

Question 20

Supination

Answer 20

forearm motion that moves the palm of the hand from the palm backward to the palm
forward position

Question 21

Type of Joint

Pivot

Movement -

Example -

Answer 21

• Uniaxial joint; allows
  rotational movement
• Atlantoaxial joint (C1–C2
  vertebrae articulation);
  proximal radioulnar joint

Question 22

type of joint

Hinge

Movement and Example

Answer 22

• Uniaxial joint; allows
  flexion/extension
  movements
• Knee, elbow,
  ankle,interphalangeal of
  the fingers and toes