Ch.9 Joints Flashcards
3 Structural Categories of Joints
3 Structural Categories of Joints
Fibrous
Cartilaginous
Synovial
What Category of Joints?
Synarthroses (immobile joints)
Amphiarthrosis (slightly mobile joints)
Functional Categories of Joints
(immobile joints)
Synarthroses
Functional Categories of Joints (1/2)
*Can be fibrous or cartilaginous Joints
(slightly mobile joints)
Amphiarthrosis
Functional Categories of Joints (2/2)
Bones held together by dense connective tissue
Fibrous Joint (synarthroses)
bones held together by dense CT
Fibrous (synarthroses)
3 most common types of Fiberous Joints
Gomphoses
Sutures
Syndesmoses
Gomphoses
Sutures
Syndesmoses
3 most common types of Fiberous Joints
found in teeth
Gomphoses (1/3 most common fiberous Joints)
Found between bones of the skull
Sutures (2/3 most common fiberous Joints)
Found between radius & ulna (interosseous membrane)
Syndesmoses
bones joined by cartilage
Cartilaginous Joints:
(2/3 Classifiction of Joints)
what type of Cartilage are wedged between articulating bones
Hyaline or FibroCartliage
fibrocartilage is wedged between articulating bones
Symphyses (slightly movable)
where is Fibrocartliage found in
(pubic symphysis and intervertebral disc –IVD)
(Symphysis)
all synovial joints are how movable
diarthroses (freely movable)