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Synovial Joints - ✔✔-Freely movable (
Knee
Shoulder
cartilaginous joints - ✔✔Slightly moveable
-Vertebral bodies of the spine
-Symphysis pubis
-Sternomanubrial joint
Fibrous Joints - ✔✔Immovable
-Skull structures
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,Spheroidal (Ball and Socket) - ✔✔-Type of synovial joint
Articular Shape
-Conver surface in concave cavity
Movement:
- wide-ranging-flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, circumduction
Examples:
-Shoulder
-Hip
Hinge - ✔✔Type of Synovial Joint
Shape:
-Flat
-Planar
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,Movement:
-Motion in one plane
-Flexion, extension
Examples:
-Interphalangeal joints of hand & feet
-Elbow
Condylar - ✔✔Type of Synovial Joint
Shape:
-Convex or Concave
Movement:
- two or more articulating surfaces, not dissociable
Examples:
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-Temporomandibular Joint
Articular Structures - ✔✔-Joint capsule and articular cartilage
-synovium and synovial fluid
-Intraarticular ligaments
-Juxtaarticular bone
Extraarticular Structures - ✔✔-Periarticular ligaments (ropelike bundles of collagen
fibers, connect bone to bone)
-Tendons (bundles of collagen fibers that connect muscle to bone)
-Bursae
-Muscle
-Fascia
-Nonarticular bone
-Nerves
-Overlying skin
Ligaments - ✔✔Rope-like bundles of collagen that connect bone-bone
Tendon - ✔✔Bundles of collagen fibers that connect muscle-bone
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