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Fibrous Answer: joint held together by dense connective tissue, usually with little or no
movement. Sutures are fibrous joints.
Gomphoses Answer: peg-in-socket fibrous joints. A tooth in its socket is a gomphosis.
Syndesmoses Answer: fibrous joints held by ligaments or membranes, such as between the tibia
and fibula.
Suture Answer: immovable fibrous joint between skull bones.
Cartilaginous Answer: joint where bones are connected by cartilage.
Synchondroses Answer: cartilaginous joint made of hyaline cartilage.
Symphyses Answer: cartilaginous joints made of fibrocartilage, such as the pubic symphysis.
Synovial (diarthroses) Answer: freely movable joints with a joint cavity and synovial fluid.
Ball-and-socket Answer: allows movement in many directions. The shoulder and hip are
examples.
Condyloid (ellipsoidal) Answer: oval joint that allows movement in two planes, such as the
wrist.
Gliding (plane) Answer: joint where bones glide past each other, such as intercarpal joints.
Hinge Answer: allows flexion and extension, such as the elbow.
Pivot Answer: joint where one bone rotates around another, such as the atlantoaxial joint.
Saddle Answer: joint allowing movement in two planes, such as the thumb carpometacarpal
joint. Movements at synovial joints: (Be able to give examples of each movement)
Abduction Answer: movement away from the midline, such as lifting the arm out to the side.
Adduction Answer: movement toward the midline, such as bringing the arm back to the body.
Circumduction Answer: circular movement of a limb, such as making arm circles.
Depression Answer: movement downward, such as lowering the jaw.
Elevation Answer: movement upward, such as shrugging the shoulders.
Dorsiflexion Answer: bending the foot upward toward the shin.
Plantarflexion Answer: pointing the foot downward like standing on tiptoe.
Flexion Answer: decreases the angle of a joint, such as bending the elbow.
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, Extension Answer: increases the angle of a joint, such as straightening the elbow.
Hyperextension Answer: movement that extends a joint beyond anatomical position.
Lateral rotation Answer: turning a bone away from the midline.
Medial rotation Answer: turning a bone toward the midline.
Inversion Answer: turning the sole of the foot medially.
Eversion Answer: turning the sole of the foot laterally.
Opposition Answer: movement of the thumb across the palm to touch the fingers.
Reposition Answer: returning the thumb to anatomical position.
Pronation Answer: rotating the forearm so the palm faces down or posteriorly.
Supination Answer: rotating the forearm so the palm faces up or anteriorly.
Protraction Answer: movement forward, such as jutting the jaw out.
Retraction Answer: movement backward, such as pulling the jaw back. Synovial joints (name
these joints when labeled; not all are synovial)
Acromioclavicular Answer: joint between the scapula and clavicle.
Atlantoaxial Answer: pivot joint that allows head rotation.
Atlanto-occipital Answer: joint that allows nodding the head yes.
Carpometacarpal Answer: joints between wrist bones and hand bones.
Glenohumeral Answer: shoulder joint.
Humeroulnar Answer: elbow joint between the humerus and ulna.
Humeroradial Answer: elbow joint between the humerus and radius.
Iliofemoral Answer: hip joint connection supported by the iliofemoral ligament.
Intercarpal Answer: joints between carpal bones.
Proximal interphalangeal Answer: joint between proximal and middle phalanges.
Distal interphalangeal Answer: joint between middle and distal phalanges.
Intertarsal Answer: joints between tarsal bones.
Intervertebral Answer: joints between vertebrae.
Metacarpophalangeal Answer: knuckle joints between metacarpals and fingers.
Metatarsophalangeal Answer: joints between metatarsals and toes.
Proximal radioulnar Answer: joint near the elbow that allows forearm rotation.
Distal radioulnar Answer: joint near the wrist that allows forearm rotation.
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Fibrous Answer: joint held together by dense connective tissue, usually with little or no
movement. Sutures are fibrous joints.
Gomphoses Answer: peg-in-socket fibrous joints. A tooth in its socket is a gomphosis.
Syndesmoses Answer: fibrous joints held by ligaments or membranes, such as between the tibia
and fibula.
Suture Answer: immovable fibrous joint between skull bones.
Cartilaginous Answer: joint where bones are connected by cartilage.
Synchondroses Answer: cartilaginous joint made of hyaline cartilage.
Symphyses Answer: cartilaginous joints made of fibrocartilage, such as the pubic symphysis.
Synovial (diarthroses) Answer: freely movable joints with a joint cavity and synovial fluid.
Ball-and-socket Answer: allows movement in many directions. The shoulder and hip are
examples.
Condyloid (ellipsoidal) Answer: oval joint that allows movement in two planes, such as the
wrist.
Gliding (plane) Answer: joint where bones glide past each other, such as intercarpal joints.
Hinge Answer: allows flexion and extension, such as the elbow.
Pivot Answer: joint where one bone rotates around another, such as the atlantoaxial joint.
Saddle Answer: joint allowing movement in two planes, such as the thumb carpometacarpal
joint. Movements at synovial joints: (Be able to give examples of each movement)
Abduction Answer: movement away from the midline, such as lifting the arm out to the side.
Adduction Answer: movement toward the midline, such as bringing the arm back to the body.
Circumduction Answer: circular movement of a limb, such as making arm circles.
Depression Answer: movement downward, such as lowering the jaw.
Elevation Answer: movement upward, such as shrugging the shoulders.
Dorsiflexion Answer: bending the foot upward toward the shin.
Plantarflexion Answer: pointing the foot downward like standing on tiptoe.
Flexion Answer: decreases the angle of a joint, such as bending the elbow.
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, Extension Answer: increases the angle of a joint, such as straightening the elbow.
Hyperextension Answer: movement that extends a joint beyond anatomical position.
Lateral rotation Answer: turning a bone away from the midline.
Medial rotation Answer: turning a bone toward the midline.
Inversion Answer: turning the sole of the foot medially.
Eversion Answer: turning the sole of the foot laterally.
Opposition Answer: movement of the thumb across the palm to touch the fingers.
Reposition Answer: returning the thumb to anatomical position.
Pronation Answer: rotating the forearm so the palm faces down or posteriorly.
Supination Answer: rotating the forearm so the palm faces up or anteriorly.
Protraction Answer: movement forward, such as jutting the jaw out.
Retraction Answer: movement backward, such as pulling the jaw back. Synovial joints (name
these joints when labeled; not all are synovial)
Acromioclavicular Answer: joint between the scapula and clavicle.
Atlantoaxial Answer: pivot joint that allows head rotation.
Atlanto-occipital Answer: joint that allows nodding the head yes.
Carpometacarpal Answer: joints between wrist bones and hand bones.
Glenohumeral Answer: shoulder joint.
Humeroulnar Answer: elbow joint between the humerus and ulna.
Humeroradial Answer: elbow joint between the humerus and radius.
Iliofemoral Answer: hip joint connection supported by the iliofemoral ligament.
Intercarpal Answer: joints between carpal bones.
Proximal interphalangeal Answer: joint between proximal and middle phalanges.
Distal interphalangeal Answer: joint between middle and distal phalanges.
Intertarsal Answer: joints between tarsal bones.
Intervertebral Answer: joints between vertebrae.
Metacarpophalangeal Answer: knuckle joints between metacarpals and fingers.
Metatarsophalangeal Answer: joints between metatarsals and toes.
Proximal radioulnar Answer: joint near the elbow that allows forearm rotation.
Distal radioulnar Answer: joint near the wrist that allows forearm rotation.
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