CH9.1-9.7 (EXAM3) Flashcards
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Joint
is the place of contact between bones, between bone and cartilage, or between bones and teeth.
Articulation
Joint or connection between bones.
A Fibrous Joint
has no joint cavity and occurs where bones are held together by dense regular (fibrous) connective tissue.
A Cartilaginous Joint
has no joint cavity and occurs where bones are joined by cartilage.
A Synovial Joint
has a joint cavity (filled w/lubricating fluid) that separates the articulating surfaces of the bones. The articulating surfaces are enclosed within a CT capsule, and the bones are attached to each other by various ligaments.
Structural Characteristics of Fibrous
Dense regular CT holds together the ends of bones and bone parts; no joint cavity
Structural Characteristics of Cartilaginous
Pad of cartilage is wedged between the ends of bones; no joint cavity.
Structural Characteristics of Synovial
Ends of bones covered with articular cartilage; joint cavity separates the articulating bones; joint enclosed by an articular capsule, lined by a synovial membrane; contains synovial fluid.
Synarthrosis
Is an immobile joint. Two types of fibrous joints and one type of cartilaginous joint are synarthroses.
Amphiarthrosis
Is a slightly mobile joint. One type of fibrous joint and one type of cartilaginous joint are amphiarthroses.
Diarthrosis
Is a freely mobile joint. All synovial joints are diarthroses.
Structural Categories of Fibrous
Gomphosis
Suture
Syndesmosis
Structural Categories of Cartilaginous
Synchondrosis
Symphysis
Structural Categories of Synovial
Plane Hinge Pivot Condylar Saddle Ball-and-socket
Functional Classifications of Fibrous
Synarthrosis (immobile) or Amphiarthrosis (slightly mobile
Functional Classification of Cartilaginous
Synarthrosis (immobile) or Amphiarthrosis (slightly mobile
Functional Classification of Synovial
Diarthrosis (freely mobile)
Gomphosis
Resembles a “peg in a socket.” The only gomphoses in the human body are the articulations of the roots of individual teeth w/ the alveolar processes (sockets) of the mandible and the maxillae. Periodontal membranes hold a tooth to bony jaw (synarthrosis)
Sutures
are fibrous joints found only between certain bones of the skull; are functionally classified as synarthroses, since they are immobile joints. Sutures have distinct, interlocking, usually irregular edges that both increase their stability and decrease the number of fractures at these articulations. Sutures permit the skull to grow (by new bone being deposited at these sutures) as the brain increases during childhood. In an older adult, the dense regular CT in the suture becomes ossified, fusing the skull bones together.
Synostoses
When bones have completely fused across the suture line, these obliterated sutures are now called synostoses.
Syndesmoses
are fibrous joints in which articulating bones are joined by long strands of dense regular CT only; amphiarthrosis (slightly mobile); found between radius and ulna and between tibia and fibula. The shafts of two articulating bones are bound by a broad, ligamentous sheet called an interosseous membrane (interosseous ligament). The interosseous membrane provides a pivot where the radius and ulna (or the tibia and fibula) can move relative to one another.
Synchondrosis
An articulation in which bones are joined by hyaline cartilage; functionally are immobile (synarthrosis).
The hyaline cartilage of epiphyseal plates in children forms…
synchondroses that bind the epiphyses and diaphysis of long bones.
When the hyaline cartilage stops growing, bone replaces…
the cartilage and synchondrosis no longer exists.