Module 4/Chapter 26/Musculoskeletal System/Joints/Terms Relating to Joints
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- What is the place where bones come together?
- joints (articulation)
- The type of joint found in any specific location is determined by what?
- By the need for greater or lesser flexibility of movement.
- Joints that are immovable (like the skull bone)are called what?
- Suture joints
- Name a partially movable joint.
- Vertebrae
- Joints that are freely movable (such as the hip joint) are called what?
- synovial joints
- Bursa
- Pad-like sac or cavity near a joint.
- Ligament
- Band of connective tissue that binds bones to other bones
- Synovial cavity
- Space between bones at a synovial joint
- Synovial fluid
- Clear lubricating fluid of a joint
- Tendon
- Connective tissue that binds muscles to bones