Unit 3: Ch 9 (Joints) Flashcards
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General anatomy of synovial joints
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- 2 structures
- Articular disc
- Meniscus
- Accessory structures
- Tendon: dense irreg tissue
- Ligament: dense irreg tissue that bring 2 bones together in only 1 plane
- Bursa: fluid-filled sacs on larger structures (like knee) that reduce friction
- Tendon sheath: fluid-filled sacs on smaller structures (like fingers) that reduce friction
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4 major joint categories
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- Bony
- Fibrous
- Cartilaginous
- Synovial joints
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Abduction, hyperabduction, adduction, & hyperabduction
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Abduction
- Movement of a part in the frontal plane away from the midline
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Hyperabduction
- Over or behind; an extreme abduction
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Adduction
- Movement of a part in the frontal plane back toward the midline
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Hyperadduction
- An extreme adduction
- i.e. crossing fingers and ankles
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Arth-
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Joint
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Arthrology
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The science of joint structure, function, and dysfunction
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Articulation
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- A skeletal joint
- Any point at which two bones meet
- May or may not be moveable
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Ball-and-socket joints
- Description
- Movement
- Axis rotation
- Examples
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Description
- Ball-shaped surface of one rounded bone fits into the cup-like depression of another bone
- In all 3 planes
- Most freely movable joints
- Movement: flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, circumduction, and medial/lateral rotation
- Axis rotation: the only multiaxial joints in the body
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Examples
- Glenohumeral (shoulder) joint
- Coxal (hip) joint
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Bony joints
- AKA
- Description
- Mobility
- Examples
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- AKA: Synostosis joints
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Description
- Multiple bones fused into one
- Immobile joint formed when the gap between two bones ossifies and they become a single bone
- Mobility: Synarthrotic
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Examples
- Ilium, ischium, and pubis create a single hip bone
- Epiphyses and diaphyses of the long bones
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Cartilaginous Joints
- AKA
- Description
- Types & examples
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- AKA: Amphiarthrodial joint
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Description
- Bones united by fibrocartilage or hyaline cartilage
- No synovial cavity present
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Types
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Synchondroses
- __connected by hyaline cartilage
- moveability: synarthrosis
- ie joint between diaphysis and epiphysis
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Symphyses
- connected by fibrocartilage
- moveability: amphiarthrosis
- ie pubic symphasis and joints between vertebral bodies
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Synchondroses
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Circumduction
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- Joint movement where one end of an appendage remains stationary while the other end makes a circular motion
- Sequence of flexion, abduction, extension, and adduction movements
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Circumduction
13
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Classification by degree of movement
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- Synarthrosis: immovable
- Amphiarthrosis: slightly moveable
- Diarthrosis: freely moveable
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Classification by type of tissue
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- Bony: bones that are typically fused into one bone
- Fibrous: bones connected to fibrous tissue
- Cartilaginous: bones connected by cartilage
- Synovial: articulating surfaces enclosed within fluid-filled joint capsule
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Condylar joints
- AKA
- Description
- Movement
- Axis rotation
- Examples
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- AKA: Ellipsoid joints
- Description: convex surface which articulates with a concave elliptical cavity
- Movement: flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, & cirumduction
- Axis rotation: biaxial
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Examples
- Radiocarpal joint of wrist
- Humerus
- Femur
- Glenoid cavity
- Metacarpophalangeal (knuckle) joints of fingers
16
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Diarthrosis joints
- Movement type
- Axes of motion & corresponding joint names
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- Freely moveable joints
- 3 categories based on the number of axes of motion
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Multiaxial
- Ball-and-socket
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Monaxial
- Pivot
- Hinge
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Biaxial
- Plane
- Saddle
- Condylar
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Multiaxial
- Note: All synovial joints are diarthrotic and have joint cavities
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Fibrous Joints
- AKA
- Description
- Mobility
- Categories & examples
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- AKA: Synarthrosis
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Description
- connected by dense irregular connective tissue that is in collagen fibers
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Categories
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Sutures
- mobility: synarthrotic (limited movement until about 20 YOA, then immovable)
- found between flat, plate-like bones of the skull (except for mandible)
- short fibers
- Example: fontanelle
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Gomphoses
- mobility: synarthrotic
- found where the teeth articulate with their sockets in the maxilla or the mandible
- peg in socket
- Example: tooth
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Syndesmoses
- mobility: amphiarthrotic
- fibrous joint in which two parallel bones are united to each other by fibrous connective tissue/interosseous membrane
- gap between the bones may be joined by ligaments or filled in by interosseous membrane
- long fibers
- Example: the interosseous membrane between the radius and ulna
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Sutures