Joints, Tendons, Ligaments Flashcards
What is a joint
Where two or more bones or other skeletal components are joined together
What is a tendon
A fibrous band of connective tissue that is bonded to bone and connects muscle to bone
What is a ligament
A fibrous band of connective tissue that connects bones and other connective tissues together at joints
What is cartilage
Fibrous and viscoelastic connective tissue composed of closely packed collagenous fibres in a proteoglycan rich ECM
What is synarthroses
Immovable joints
What is amphiarthroses
Slightly movable joints
What is diarthroses
Freely movable joints
What are 4 types of structural classifications
Bony fusion
Fibrous
Cartilagenous
Synovial
What are fibrous joints
Cones connected by dense regular connective tissue
No joint cavity
Slightly immovable or not at all
What are 3 types of fibrous joints
Sutures
Syndesmoses
Gomphoses
What is syndesmoses
Bones connected by ligaments only
Amount of movement depends on length of the fibres
Means ‘with band’
What is gomphoses
Ligament is a short periodontal ligament
Almost a peg in a socket
What are 2 types of cartilagenous joints
Synchondroses
Sympheses
What are cartilagenous joints
Articulating bones united by cartilage
No joint cavity
Slightly movable
What is synchondroses
Hyaline cartilage unites the bones
Immovable
‘Junction of cartilage’
What are 2 examples of synchondroses
Epiphyseal plates
Joint between first ribs costal cartilage and manubrium of the sternum