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Joints Flashcards

1
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Joints are also called what and their two functions include what?

A

Articulations and support and movement

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2
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Skeletal muscles do what to joints to achieve movement?

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Cross over them

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Joints can be classified by their structure or function and a more mobile joint means it’s less what?

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Stable

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What does the synovial fluid inside the joint cavity do?

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Provide lubrication

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What type of joint is slightly moveable usually and connected by cartilage tissue? What is an example?

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Cartilaginous, pubic symphysis

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Synchondroses and symphyses are the two types of what joints?

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Cartilaginous joints

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5
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What type of joint is connected by fibrous connective tissue and is immovable? What is an example?

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Fibrous, skull sutures

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All synovial joints contain a what joint cavity?

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Fluid-filled

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What type of joint is connected at a joint cavity within a capsule and usually freely moveable?

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Synovial joints

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Synchondroses are bones joined by what type of cartilage? What are two examples?

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Hyaline cartilage, costochondral joints and epiphyseal plates

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Symphyses are what type of cartilage between articulating bones? What are two examples?

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Fibrocartilage, pubic symphysis and intervertebral joints

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9
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Diarthroses are what type of joint?

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Freely moveable

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The three layers from superficial to deep in joints are what?

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Articular capsule, ligament, then articular cartilage

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11
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What two things help reduce friction?

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Bursae and tendon sheaths

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What type of joint allows for the two articulating bones to glide past each other?

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Plane joint

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What is a saclike structure with synovial fluid?

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Bursae

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14
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What is an example of a plane joint?

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Between the carpal and tarsal bones

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15
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Which joint allows for flexion and extension?

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Hinge joint

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The elbow joint, interphalangeal joints, and knee joints are examples of what type of joint?

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Hinge joint

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17
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What type of joint allows for rotation?

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Pivot joint

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18
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The atlantoaxial joint and proximal radioulnar joint are what type of joint?

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Pivot joints

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The shoulder joints and hip joint are examples of what type of joint?

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Ball and socket joints

19
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The metacarpophalangeal joints or the knuckles are an example of what type of joint?

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Condylar joints

20
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What type of joint is where one surface has a convex surface and the other has a concave surface?

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Condyloid joint

20
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What joint is the largest and most complex joint that also tends to act as a hinge joint but can slightly rotate?

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Knee joint

21
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What type of joint is very flexible and allows for flexion/extension, rotation, and adduction/abduction?

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Ball and socket joint

22
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While three ligaments connect the femur and tibia, which one connects the femur and fibula?

A

The lateral collateral ligament

23
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What joint is technically two condylar joints?

A

Knee joint

24
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What prevents side to side rocking of the femur on the tibia and help even out the weight distribution and stabilize the joint?

A

The lateral and medical meniscus

24
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What is it called when the medial meniscus, medial collateral ligament, and anterior cruciate ligament are torn/damaged?

A

Unhappy Triad

25
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What joint is divided by meniscus into superior and inferior compartments?

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The temperomandibular joint

26
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The hip joint is known as the what joint?

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Coxal joint

26
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What is it called when you decrease the angle between two articulating bones?

A

Flexion

27
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What joint dislocated very easily?

A

Glenohumeral or shoulder joint

28
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The superior compartment of the TMJ allows for what while the inferior compartment is what type of joint?

A

Gliding and hinge

29
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The most common form of arthritis in the knee is what?

A

Osteoarthritis

30
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What is it called when you increase the angle between two articulating bones?

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Extension

31
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What is it called when you move away from the midline?

A

Abduction

32
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What is it called when you move toward the midline?

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Adduction

33
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What type of movement includes flexion, extension, adduction, and abduction?

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Circumduction

34
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What type of movements refer to the mandible?

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Elevation and depression

34
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What type of movement is when you move something across a single axis?

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Rotation

35
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What types of movement are referred to with the scapula and mandible?

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Retraction and protraction

36
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What types of movement are used with the forearm?

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Pronation and supination

37
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What type of movement pulls something posteriorly?

A

Retraction

38
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What type of movement pulls something anteriorly?

A

Protraction

39
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What type of movement has the radius cross over the ulna?

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Pronation

40
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What type of movement is used in reference to the thumb?

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Opposition

41
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What type of movement is when you move the sole of your foot to the midline?

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Inversion

41
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What type of movement is when you touch the surface of your thumb to other fingers?

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Opposition

42
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What types of movement are used to describe the foot?

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Inversion/eversion and dorsiflexion/plantarflexion

43
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What type of movement is when you move the sole of your foot laterally?

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Eversion

43
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What type of movement is when the sole is brought upwards?

A

Dorsiflexion

43
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What type of movement is when you point your toes?

A

Plantarflexion

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