JOINTS Flashcards
Lack a synovial cavity
*Articulating bones are held together with dense fibrous connective tissue
*Permit little or no movement
FIBROUS
Lack a synovial cavity
*Articulating bones are held together with cartilage connective tissue
*Permit little or no movement
CARTILAGINOUS
Designed to articulate for movement
*Has a synovial cavity
*Articular cartilage lines an cushions bone surfaces
*Held together by ligaments
SYNOVIAL
TYPES OF FIBROUS:
1:dense fibrous connective tissue
2:more dense fibrous connective tissue than a suture, immovable
3:broad sheet of dense fibrous connective tissue
SUTURES, SYNDESMOSES, INTEROSSEUS MEMBRANES
TYPES OF CARTILAGINOUS:
1:hyaline cartilage; no movement
2:fibrocartilage; some movement
PRIMARY, SECONDARY
TYPES OF SYNOVIAL:
(NAME 3)
HINGE, SADDLE, PIVOT, BALL AND SOCKET