Chapter 8 Flashcards
Articulation
site where two or more bones meet
Joint Function
- give skeleton mobility
- hold skeleton together
Classifications of Joints:
- Structural
- Functional
Functional Classifications:
- Synarthroses
- Amphiarthroses
- Diarthroses
Synarthroses
immovable joint
Amphiarthroses
slightly movable joints
Diarthroses
freely movable joints
Structural Classifications:
- Fibrous joints
- Cartliginous joints
- Synovial joints
Fibrous joints
bones joined by dense fibrous connective tissue
Most synarthrotic joint?
Fibrous joint
Types of Fibrous Joints
- Sutures
- Syndesomoses
- Gomphoses
Sutures description/location/fact
- joints interlocked by fibers
- found in the skull
- in middle age sutures and ossify and fuse AKA synostoses
Syndesmoses description/location/fact
- joints held together by a ligament
- ligament that connects the fibula/tibia or radius/ulna
*little to no movement at tibiofibular and movement at radius and ulna connection
Gomphoses description/location
- peg in socket fibrous joint
- peridontal ligament
*only in the teeth
Cartilaginous joint
- bones united by cartilage
- no joint cavity
- synarthrotic
Types of Cartilaginous Joints
- Synchondroses
- Symphyses
Synchondroses
- hyaline cartilage unites (joints)
- synarthrotic
- ribs attached to sternum (manubrium)/ epiphyseal plate
Symphyeses
- fibrocartilage unite (joints)
- amphiarthrotic
- pubic symphysis/ intervertebral discs
Synovial Joints
- separate bones by fluid-filled joint cavity
- diarthrotic
- limb joints
6 shapes of Synvoial Joints
- plane
- hinge
- pivot
- condylar
- saddle
- ball and socket joints
6 Distinguishing Factors of Synovial Joints
- Articular cartilage: hyaline cartilage
- Joint cavity: synovial
- Articular capsule: joint
- Synovial fluid
- Different reinforcing ligaments
- Nerve and blood vessels
Articular cartilage
prevents crushing bone ends
Joint cavity
small fluid-filled potential space
Articular capsule
- fibrous layer (external)
- synovial membrane (internal)- produces synvoal fluid