Principles - Joints

Question 1

What does the craniovertebral joint connect?

Answer 1

Skull and vertibrae

Question 2

What joint connects the ribs to cartilage?

Answer 2

Costochondral

Question 3

What joint connects the sternum to the cartilage?

Answer 3

Sternocondral

Question 4

What does the costocondral joint connect to cartilage?

Answer 4

The ribs

Question 5

What does the sternochondral joint connect to the cartilage?

Answer 5

The sternum

Question 6

Where is the proximal radioulnar joint found?

Answer 6

(At the elbow)

Question 7

Where is the distal radioulnar joint found?

Answer 7

(At the wrist)

Question 8

What bones are connected by the distal radioulnar joint?

Answer 8

The radius and ulnar

Question 9

What bones are connected by the proximal radioulnar joint?

Answer 9

The radius and ulnar

Question 10

Where would costovertebral joints be found?

Answer 10

(At the back)

Question 11

What is connected by costovertebral joints?

Answer 11

Vertebrae and ribs

Question 12

Where are the metacarpophalangeal joints?

Answer 12

(In the hand)

Question 13

What are the MCP joints?

Answer 13

Metacarpophalangeal joints

Question 14

What connects the metacarples to the phalangees?

Answer 14

Metacarpophalangeal joints

Question 15

Where are the interphalangeal joint?

Answer 15

(In the fingers)

Question 16

What are the two types of interphalangeal joints?

Answer 16

PIP and DIP

Proximal and distal

Question 17

Which is closer to the metacarpophalangeal joint, the proximal interphalangeal joint or the distal phalangeal joint?

Answer 17

The Proximal Interphalangeal Joint

Question 18

What is the joint at the knee called?

Answer 18

Knee joint

Question 19

What is the joint at the elbow called?

Answer 19

Elbow joint

Question 20

What bones are connected by the tibiofibular joints?

Answer 20

Tibia

Fibia

Question 21

Which is closer to the foot, the proximal tibiofibular joint or the distal tibiofibular joint?

Answer 21

The distal tibiofibular joint

Question 22

What is the name of the joint at the ankle?

Answer 22

Ankle joint

Question 23

What is the name of the articulation between the mandible and temporal bone?

Answer 23

The TMJ
(Temperomandibular joint)

Question 24

Which joint connects the scapula and the clavicle?

Answer 24

The AC joint

Acromioclavicular joint

Question 25

Where is the acromioclavicular joint found?

Answer 25

(At the shoulder)

Question 26

What part of the scapula does the acromioclavicular joint connect the clavicle to?

Answer 26

The acromion

Question 27

What type of joint is the acromioclavicular joint?

Answer 27

A plane synovial joint

Question 28

Which joint connects the sternum to the clavicle?

Answer 28

The sternoclavicular joint

Question 29

What is the manubriosternal joint?

Answer 29

The sternal angle

Question 30

Which rib level is the manubriosternal joint at?

Answer 30

Rib 2

Question 31

What joints are between the vertibrae?

Answer 31

Intervertebral discs

Facet joints

Question 32

Where are facet joints found?

Answer 32

(Between most vertebrae)

Question 33

What joints connect the sacrum and ilium?

Answer 33

Sacroiliac joints

Question 34

What bones are connected by the sacroiliac joint?

Answer 34

Sacrum

Ilium

Question 35

Which joint connects the superior rami of the left and right pubic bones?

Answer 35

The pubic symphysis

Question 36

Where are the subtalar joints?

Answer 36

(In the ankle)

Question 37

Which two bones are connected by the subtalar joint?

Answer 37

The calcaneus and the talus

Question 38

What bones are connected by the MTP joints?

Answer 38

The metatarsal bones of the foot and the proximal phalanges of the toes

Question 39

What are the MTP joints?

Answer 39

Metatarsophalangeal joints