Upper Extremity Arthrology

Question 1

Sternoclavicular Joint:
What type of joint?
Bones connected

Answer 1

1. Saddle (Sellar) Synovial Joint.

2. Between the clavicle and manubrium.

Question 2

Acromioclavicular Joint:
What type of joint?
Bones connected

Answer 2

1. Planar synovial joint.

2. Acromial end of the clavicle and the acromion of the scapula.

Question 3

What is the Coracoclavicular L. made of? (2 things)

Answer 3

Trapezoid L and Conoid L.

Question 4

Glenohumeral Joint:
What type of joint?
Bones connected

Answer 4

Ball and socket (spheroidal joint).

Between the Glenoid cavity of scapular head and head of the humerus.

Question 5

Elbow Joint

What type of joint?

Answer 5

Ginglymus (Hinge) Synovial Joint.

Question 6

Radioulnar Joint:
What type of joint?
What are the 3 joints that make up Radioulnar joint and what type of joints are they?

Answer 6

1. Compound joint.
   It is made of:
2. Proximal Radioulnar Joint: Trochoid Synovial joint(Pivot)
3. Middle Radioulnar Joint: Syndesmosis
4. Distal Radioulnar Joint: Trochoid Synovial joint. (Pivot)

Question 7

Radiocarpal Joint:

What type of joint?

Answer 7

Condylar Synovial Joint

Question 8

Intercarpal Joints:

What type of joint?

Answer 8

Planar synovial joints

Question 9

Midcarpal joints:

What type of joint?

Answer 9

Sellar synovial joints

Question 10

Carpometacarpal Joints:

What type of joints?

Answer 10

1st: Sellar Synovial Joint

2nd to 5th: Planar synovial joint.

Question 11

Intermetacarpal Joints:

What type of joints?

Answer 11

Planar Synovial Joints

Question 12

Metacarpophalangeal Joints:

What type of joints?

Answer 12

Condylar Synovial Joints

Question 13

Proximal and Distal Interphalangeal Joints:

What type of joints?

Answer 13

Ginglymus (Hinge) Synovial Joints