ASU BIO 201: Chapter 9 Joints Exam Questions and
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Define "joint" - ✔✔✔a point at which parts of an artificial structure are joined
Name the term that is synonymous with joint - ✔✔✔Articulations
Define arthrology - ✔✔✔the study of joints
Define kinesiology - ✔✔✔the study of musculoskeletal movement
Explain how joints are named - ✔✔✔they are derived from the names of the bones involved
Define diarthrosis - ✔✔✔freely movable
ex: carpals, elbow, knee
Define amphiarthrosis - ✔✔✔slightly movable
ex: joints between the skull bones surrounding the brain,pubic symphysis or an intervertebral
cartilaginous joint., the elbow joint
Define synarthrosis - ✔✔✔little or no movement
ex: fibrous joints of the skull sutures and the cartilaginous manubriosternal joint
List four types of joints based on the way they adjacent bones are joined - ✔✔✔bony, fibrous,
cartilaginous, synovial joints
, Explain the discrepancy between the number of bones in infants and adults - ✔✔✔the frontal and
mandibular bones in infants, cranial sutures in elderly, attachment of first rib and sternum with old age
Describe a synostosis and give examples of where they are located - ✔✔✔bony joint in the fibrous or
cartilaginous joints
List and describe the three types of fibrous joints - ✔✔✔sutures, gomphoses, syndesmoses
Examples of sutures - ✔✔✔cranial sutures
Examples of gomphoses - ✔✔✔the roots of the teeth (the pegs) fit into their sockets in the mandible
and maxilla
Examples of syndesmoses - ✔✔✔manubriosternal joint or the joints between the skull bones
surrounding the brain, in-between the radius and ulna as well as the tibia and fibula
Recognize three types of sutures - ✔✔✔serrate, lap (squamous), plane (butt)
Examples of serrate sutures - ✔✔✔coronal, sagittal, lambdoid
Examples of lap (squamous) - ✔✔✔temporal and parietal bone, squamous suture
Examples of plane (butt) - ✔✔✔palatine processes of the maxillae, intermaxillary suture
Define interosseous membrane - ✔✔✔2 bones are bound by longer collagenous fibers than in a suture
or gomphosis
Where are interosseous membranes are located in the body - ✔✔✔in between radius to the ulna and
the tibia to the fibula
Answers
Define "joint" - ✔✔✔a point at which parts of an artificial structure are joined
Name the term that is synonymous with joint - ✔✔✔Articulations
Define arthrology - ✔✔✔the study of joints
Define kinesiology - ✔✔✔the study of musculoskeletal movement
Explain how joints are named - ✔✔✔they are derived from the names of the bones involved
Define diarthrosis - ✔✔✔freely movable
ex: carpals, elbow, knee
Define amphiarthrosis - ✔✔✔slightly movable
ex: joints between the skull bones surrounding the brain,pubic symphysis or an intervertebral
cartilaginous joint., the elbow joint
Define synarthrosis - ✔✔✔little or no movement
ex: fibrous joints of the skull sutures and the cartilaginous manubriosternal joint
List four types of joints based on the way they adjacent bones are joined - ✔✔✔bony, fibrous,
cartilaginous, synovial joints
, Explain the discrepancy between the number of bones in infants and adults - ✔✔✔the frontal and
mandibular bones in infants, cranial sutures in elderly, attachment of first rib and sternum with old age
Describe a synostosis and give examples of where they are located - ✔✔✔bony joint in the fibrous or
cartilaginous joints
List and describe the three types of fibrous joints - ✔✔✔sutures, gomphoses, syndesmoses
Examples of sutures - ✔✔✔cranial sutures
Examples of gomphoses - ✔✔✔the roots of the teeth (the pegs) fit into their sockets in the mandible
and maxilla
Examples of syndesmoses - ✔✔✔manubriosternal joint or the joints between the skull bones
surrounding the brain, in-between the radius and ulna as well as the tibia and fibula
Recognize three types of sutures - ✔✔✔serrate, lap (squamous), plane (butt)
Examples of serrate sutures - ✔✔✔coronal, sagittal, lambdoid
Examples of lap (squamous) - ✔✔✔temporal and parietal bone, squamous suture
Examples of plane (butt) - ✔✔✔palatine processes of the maxillae, intermaxillary suture
Define interosseous membrane - ✔✔✔2 bones are bound by longer collagenous fibers than in a suture
or gomphosis
Where are interosseous membranes are located in the body - ✔✔✔in between radius to the ulna and
the tibia to the fibula
