Joints

• 2 or more bones meet?

  Joints
• Description:

  • Immovable
  • Held together only by a ligament

  Fibrous Joint
• Found in...

  • Teeth in socket
  • Skull
  • Radioulnar Joint
  • Tibiofibular Joint

  Fibrous Joint
• Description:

  • Partly movable
  • Occurs where the connection between the 2 joints is cartilage

  Cartilaginous Joint
• Found in...

  • Vertebrae
  • Ribs to sternum

  Cartilaginous Joint
• Description:

  • Fully moveable
  • Classified by shape and movement produced
  • Have a membrane that secretes fluid that pads the ends of the bones

  Synovial Joint
• 6 types of ___ joints

  • Hing Pivot
  • Saddle
  • Condyloid
  • Ball and Socket
  • Plane/Gliding

  Synovial Joint