Joints and Movements
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hgorton2027 on February 1, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ball and Socket | ie: head of humerus |
| Pivot | Radius and Ulna |
| Saddle | Metacarpal and Carpal |
| Condyloid | metacarpal and phalanx |
| Flexion | Decreases the angle of a joint |
| Extension | Straightens and returns to anatomical position |
| Hyperextension | Extension beyond 180 degrees |
| Abduction | Moving away from the midline |
| Adduction | Moving towards the midline |
| hyperadduction | crossing fingers |
| opposition | movement of thumb towards fingers |
| circumduction | movement in which one end of an appendage remains stationary while the other makes a circular motion |
| Rotation | Movement on longitudinal axis |
| Medial Rotation | Turns the bone inwards |
| Lateral Rotation | Turns the bone outward |
| Dorsiflexion | Raising of toes when foot is swung forward during stepping |
| Plantarflexion | Extension of the foot so that toes point downward |
| Inversion | Soles are turned medially |
| Eversion | Soles are turned laterally |
| Protraction | Movement anteriorly on a horizontal plane |
| Retraction | Movement posteriorly |
| Fova | deep pit |
| fontanel | area between bones of a fetus skull covered by dense connective tissue |
| canal | narrow tube, passage or channel |
| cornus | horn-shaped projection |
| suture | line left after 2 bones fuse |
| fissure | narrow crevasse |
| foramen | a hole in a bone for the passage of nerves and blood vessels |
| fossa | shallow depression |
| groove | narrow depression |
| meatus | penetrating hole |
| sinus | a cavity in a bone that lightens the skull |
| condyle | rounded articular process |
| crest | prominent, narrow ridge |
| epicondyle | elevated area on or above the condyle |
| facet | smooth, almost flat, articular surface |
| head | rounded epiphysis |
| line | small, narrow ridge |
| Ramus | flat bride of bone |
| spine | sharp, narrow, usually pointed end |
| trochanter | large, blunt process (femur only) |
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