Anatomy of Synovial Joints: Classification, Movements, and Structures

What is a monoaxial joint?

A joint with only one degree of movement, moving only in one plane.

What type of joint can move through two planes?

Biaxial joint.

What are joints that can move in more than two planes called?

Multiaxial joints.

What is abduction of the neck?

A movement that involves tilting the head away from the midline.

What structure attaches a muscle to bone and helps stabilize a synovial joint?

Tendon.

What does the classification of a joint as bony, fibrous, cartilaginous, or synovial describe?

How the bone ends are held together within the joint.

What is circumduction?

Making a conical motion with a limb, as in drawing a circle.

What is the highest degree of movement in synovial joints called?

Ball-and-socket joint.

What is protraction of the scapulae?

Drawing the shoulders anteriorly or protruding the mandible outward.

What is retraction of the scapulae?

Pulling the shoulders back, as in sticking out your chest.

What is the movement that tips the soles laterally called?

Eversion.

What is the movement that tips the soles medially called?

Inversion.

What is supination?

Movement that turns the palms anteriorly or upward.

What is pronation?

Movement that turns the palms posteriorly or downward.

What type of joint is formed by the fusion of bones through ossification?

Synostoses.

What is a syndesmosis held together by?

Collagen fibers.

What are immovable joints called?

Synarthrosis.

What are slightly movable joints called?

Amphiarthrosis.

What is an example of a symphysis joint?

The joint between the bodies of two vertebrae.

What is an example of a synchondrosis joint?

The attachment of the clavicle to the sternum.

What is a fibrous joint between two skull bones called?

Suture.

Hinge Joint

Plane joint

Condylar Joint

Ball And Socket

Pivot Joint

Saddle Joint

Acromion

Glenoid cavity of scapula

Humerus

Supraspinatus tendon

Subscapularis tendon

Biceps brachii(Long h)

Teres minor tendon

Lateral condyle

Fibula

Tibia

Supraspinous tendon

Capsular ligamen

Synovial membrane

Glenoid labrum

Femur

medial condyle

Tibia

Fibula

Joint cav synovial fluid

Synovial membrane

Fibrous capsule

Joint capsule

Coracoacromial ligament

corachohumeral ligament

Acromioclavicular ligament

Ant. cruciate ligament

medial meniscus

Posterior cruciate ligament

Lateral meniscus

Femur

Articular cartilage

Joint cavity

Petalla

Patellar surface

Inf. glenhumeral ligament

Glenoid cav (articular cartilage)

Middle glenohumeral ligament