Joints Flashcards
What are the types of fibrous joints?
Sutures, syndesmosis, dentoalveolar syndesmosis.
What are the three different joint classifications?
Fibrous joints, Cartilaginous joints, synovial joints.
What are types of cartilaginous joints?
Primary Cartilaginous joints, secondary cartilaginous joints.
What are the six types of synovial joints?
Plane, hinge, saddle, condyloid, ball and socket, but if it.
What are the most common type of joints?
Synovial joints.
Under which joint type does the intervertebral discs or pubic synthesis fall?
Cartilaginous joints ->secondary cartilaginous joints.
What do the primary cartilaginous joints do?
Permit slight bending in early life, usually temporary unions, permit growth in the length to the long bone, eventually calcifying and fuse.
What joints provide sock absorption and flexibility to the vertebral column?
Secondary cartilaginous joints.
What unites cartilaginous joints?
Hyaline Cartlidge or fibrocartilage.
Given example of a joint that is syndesmosis.
Interosseous membrane that joins radius and ulna.
The root of tooth and Alveolar process of jaw is what type of joint?
Dentoalveolar syndesmosis.
Synchondrosis is part of what type of joint?
Primary cartilaginous joints.
What types of synovial joints are uniaxial?
Plane, Hinge, pivot.
Which synovial joints are biaxial?
Saddle, condyloid.
Which synovial joints are multi axial?
Ball and socket.