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This joint allows rotation in several axes and has the widest range of motion among all joints

Ball and socket

This joint can only move in a rotational direction. An example is the vertebrae of the head and neck.

Pivot

This joint allows side to side and up and down motion, but no rotation. The phalanges are an example.

Condyloid

This joint moves in only one plane. The elbow joint is an example.

Hinge

This joint has limited gliding movement in one plane with no rotation

Gliding

This joint can move side to side and up and has a greater range than condyloid joints.

Saddle

An unbending movement around a joint in a limb (as the knee or elbow) that increases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint

Extension

Bending the foot in the direction of the plantar surface

Plantar flexion

A bending movement around a joint in a limb (as the knee or elbow) that decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint

Flexion

The downward movement, scapula, shoulder, or mandible

Depression

Movement away from the midline of the body

Abduction

Bending the foot in the direction of the dorsum

Dorsiflexion

Movement toward the midline of the body

Adduction

The upward movement of the scapula, shoulder, or mandible

Elevation

Functions of joints

To hold bones together, to bear weight, and to allow movement

Three types of joints

Fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial