Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Skeletal System
- Types of joint
- Synovial
- Mobility - Free movement
- Stability - Least Stable
- Example - Joints between the arms & Legs
- Cartilaginous
- Mobility - Little Movement
- Stability - Stable
- Example - Between the bodies of adjacent vertebrae in the cervica & thoracic
- Example - Between the bodies of adjacent vertebrae in part of the lumbar spine
- Fibrous
- Mobility - No Movement
- Stability - Most Stable
- Example - Between the bones of the skull
- Example - Between the fused bones of the sacrum and coccyx
- Structure of Bone
- Types of Synovial Joint
- Ball & Socket
- Shoulder
- Hip
- The ball shaped head of one bone articulates
with the socket of an adjacent bone
- Hinge
- Elbow
- Knee
- Ankle
- A cylindrical protrusion of one bone
articulates with an adjacent bone
- Pivot
- Radio-Ulnar
- Spine
- Wrist
- A rounded or pointed structure of one bone articulates
with a ring-shaped structure of an adjacent bone
- Condyloid
- Wrist
- Similar to ball & socket but with much flatter
articulating surfaces forming a shallower joint
- Gliding
- Spine
- Articulating surfaces are almost
flat and of a similar size
- Structure of Joints
- Appendicular Skeleton
- Axial Skeleton