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What hold the bone together at the joint?
Ligaments hold bone to bone, normally in a complex working together to keep the joint stable. Also tendons tether muscle to bone around the joint to increase stability as well.
What is the name of the neck joint?
The medical term for a neck joint is called a pivot joint. This is when one bone rotates around another bone in a circular motion.
What is osteoarthristis?
Degeneration of the joints with excruciating pain, bone deformaties from bone rubbing on bone setting up inflammation around the affected joint & eventual need to have joint(s) replaced.
What joint allows one bone to rotate around the another?
Ball and socket joint as found in the hip and shoulder.
Is the shin bone a piviot joint?
The tibia, or shin bone, is not a joint.
What is a condyle?
A condyle is a rounded prominence at the end of a bone, typically part of a joint. It helps facilitate smooth movement and stabilization of the joint during motion. Condyles are often found in areas such as the knee, elbow, and jaw.
What part of the skeleton is a ball and socket joint?
The hip bone and the shoulder bone its the knee bone joint
What type of joint is the hip bone?
synovial joint
What is the external landmark of the larynx?
hyoid bone
What are terms used for displacement of a bone from its joint?
Partial displacement of a bone from its joint is a medical subluxation. Complete displacement of a bone from its joint is a dislocation.
Pivot joint?
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.
Which bone forms the bony knob on the inside of the ankle?
The bottom of the tibia. That particular part of the tibia is called the medial malleolus.
