Movement And Joints

                  Movement And Joints

Fixed joints: 
Synarthroses (immovable joints), also known as fixed or fibrous joints, are defined as two or more bones in close proximity that have no movement. An example of immovable joints are the plates of the skull. The joints in which bones cannot move or bend are called immovable or fixed joints. Examples include skull bones, teeth in sockets of jaw.

Moveable joints
A moveable is a joint that can move below would be the examples of moveable joints: 

Hinge joint:
Hinge joints are a type of joint that functions much like the hinge on a door, allowing bones to move in one direction back and forth with limited motion along other planes. The fingers, toes, elbows, knees, and ankles contain hinge joints. Hinge joints are complex and contain many muscles and tissues.

Pivot joints: 
pivot joint, also called rotary joint, or trochoid joint, in vertebrate anatomy, a freely moveable joint (diarthrosis) that allows only rotary movement around a single axis. The moving bone rotates within a ring that is formed from a second bone and adjoining ligament. They are located in your neck, your wrist, and your elbow.

Gliding joints: 
plane joint, also called gliding joint or arthrodial joint, in anatomy, type of structure in the body formed between two bones in which the articular, or free, surfaces of the bones are flat or nearly flat, enabling the bones to slide over each otherExample of a gliding joint is the wrist joint, spine and ankle.






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