Joints

Question 1

Joints are also called what and their two functions include what?

Answer 1

Articulations and support and movement

Question 2

Skeletal muscles do what to joints to achieve movement?

Answer 2

Cross over them

Question 3

Joints can be classified by their structure or function and a more mobile joint means it’s less what?

Answer 3

Stable

Question 4

What does the synovial fluid inside the joint cavity do?

Answer 4

Provide lubrication

Question 4

What type of joint is slightly moveable usually and connected by cartilage tissue? What is an example?

Answer 4

Cartilaginous, pubic symphysis

Question 5

Synchondroses and symphyses are the two types of what joints?

Answer 5

Cartilaginous joints

Question 5

What type of joint is connected by fibrous connective tissue and is immovable? What is an example?

Answer 5

Fibrous, skull sutures

Question 6

All synovial joints contain a what joint cavity?

Answer 6

Fluid-filled

Question 6

What type of joint is connected at a joint cavity within a capsule and usually freely moveable?

Answer 6

Synovial joints

Question 7

Synchondroses are bones joined by what type of cartilage? What are two examples?

Answer 7

Hyaline cartilage, costochondral joints and epiphyseal plates

Question 8

Symphyses are what type of cartilage between articulating bones? What are two examples?

Answer 8

Fibrocartilage, pubic symphysis and intervertebral joints

Question 9

Diarthroses are what type of joint?

Answer 9

Freely moveable

Question 10

The three layers from superficial to deep in joints are what?

Answer 10

Articular capsule, ligament, then articular cartilage

Question 11

What two things help reduce friction?

Answer 11

Bursae and tendon sheaths

Question 12

What type of joint allows for the two articulating bones to glide past each other?

Answer 12

Plane joint

Question 13

What is a saclike structure with synovial fluid?

Answer 13

Bursae

Question 14

What is an example of a plane joint?

Answer 14

Between the carpal and tarsal bones

Question 15

Which joint allows for flexion and extension?

Answer 15

Hinge joint

Question 16

The elbow joint, interphalangeal joints, and knee joints are examples of what type of joint?

Answer 16

Hinge joint

Question 17

What type of joint allows for rotation?

Answer 17

Pivot joint

Question 18

The atlantoaxial joint and proximal radioulnar joint are what type of joint?

Answer 18

Pivot joints

Question 19

The shoulder joints and hip joint are examples of what type of joint?

Answer 19

Ball and socket joints

Question 19

The metacarpophalangeal joints or the knuckles are an example of what type of joint?

Answer 19

Condylar joints

Question 20

What type of joint is where one surface has a convex surface and the other has a concave surface?

Answer 20

Condyloid joint

Question 20

What joint is the largest and most complex joint that also tends to act as a hinge joint but can slightly rotate?

Answer 20

Knee joint

Question 21

What type of joint is very flexible and allows for flexion/extension, rotation, and adduction/abduction?

Answer 21

Ball and socket joint

Question 22

While three ligaments connect the femur and tibia, which one connects the femur and fibula?

Answer 22

The lateral collateral ligament

Question 23

What joint is technically two condylar joints?

Answer 23

Knee joint

Question 24

What prevents side to side rocking of the femur on the tibia and help even out the weight distribution and stabilize the joint?

Answer 24

The lateral and medical meniscus

Question 24

What is it called when the medial meniscus, medial collateral ligament, and anterior cruciate ligament are torn/damaged?

Answer 24

Unhappy Triad

Question 25

What joint is divided by meniscus into superior and inferior compartments?

Answer 25

The temperomandibular joint

Question 26

The hip joint is known as the what joint?

Answer 26

Coxal joint

Question 26

What is it called when you decrease the angle between two articulating bones?

Answer 26

Flexion

Question 27

What joint dislocated very easily?

Answer 27

Glenohumeral or shoulder joint

Question 28

The superior compartment of the TMJ allows for what while the inferior compartment is what type of joint?

Answer 28

Gliding and hinge

Question 29

The most common form of arthritis in the knee is what?

Answer 29

Osteoarthritis

Question 30

What is it called when you increase the angle between two articulating bones?

Answer 30

Extension

Question 31

What is it called when you move away from the midline?

Answer 31

Abduction

Question 32

What is it called when you move toward the midline?

Answer 32

Adduction

Question 33

What type of movement includes flexion, extension, adduction, and abduction?

Answer 33

Circumduction

Question 34

What type of movements refer to the mandible?

Answer 34

Elevation and depression

Question 34

What type of movement is when you move something across a single axis?

Answer 34

Rotation

Question 35

What types of movement are referred to with the scapula and mandible?

Answer 35

Retraction and protraction

Question 36

What types of movement are used with the forearm?

Answer 36

Pronation and supination

Question 37

What type of movement pulls something posteriorly?

Answer 37

Retraction

Question 38

What type of movement pulls something anteriorly?

Answer 38

Protraction

Question 39

What type of movement has the radius cross over the ulna?

Answer 39

Pronation

Question 40

What type of movement is used in reference to the thumb?

Answer 40

Opposition

Question 41

What type of movement is when you move the sole of your foot to the midline?

Answer 41

Inversion

Question 41

What type of movement is when you touch the surface of your thumb to other fingers?

Answer 41

Opposition

Question 42

What types of movement are used to describe the foot?

Answer 42

Inversion/eversion and dorsiflexion/plantarflexion

Question 43

What type of movement is when you move the sole of your foot laterally?

Answer 43

Eversion

Question 43

What type of movement is when the sole is brought upwards?

Answer 43

Dorsiflexion

Question 43

What type of movement is when you point your toes?

Answer 43

Plantarflexion