Joints

Question 1

What are the 3 kind of joints?

Answer 1

fibrous

cartilaginous

synovial

Question 2

What are the four components of a synovial joint?

Answer 2

fluid filled space, synovial membrane, articular cartilage, fibrous capsule

Question 3

What are some examples of a plane joint?

Answer 3

vertebral joints, some wrist/hock joints

Question 4

What are some examples of hinge joints?

What kind of motion do they allow?

Answer 4

elbow joint (humero-ulnar)

interphalangeal joints

flexion and extension, single plane

Question 5

What are some examples of a piviot joint?

What kind of motion do they allow?

Answer 5

radioulnar joint

atlanaxial joint

axial rotation, rotation about the long axis

Question 6

what are some examples of a condyloid joint?

what kind of movement do they allow?

Answer 6

stifle

hock

flexion and extension, but some axial rotation and planar motion as well

Question 7

What is an example of an ellipsoidial joint?

what kind of movement?

Answer 7

radiocarpal joint in dogs

motion in 2 planes sliding off the ellipse

Question 8

What are some examples of saddle joints?

Answer 8

thumb joint in humans

distal interphalangeal joints in carnivores

Question 9

examples of ball and socket joints

Answer 9

hip

shoulder (in humans)