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the knee!
technical name: tibiofemoral joint
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What is the name of the joingt in the middle of the leg?
The knee joint is the joint that is located in the middle of the leg. It lies between the thigh and the lower leg. It is what bends and allows a person to walk smoothly.
What is the difference between lower extremity thigh and leg?
upper thigh= top part of your leg hip= to the left and right of the belly, on the sides of your body
What is the name of the joint between upper and lower leg?
The answer isKnee
What part of the body is the ankle in?
The ankle is the joint formed by the articulation of the lower leg bones with the talus. The ankle connects the foot with the leg.
What do you call the part of the leg from the waist to the knee?
If it is below the inner thigh, it has to be the lower leg and if about the knee is the thigh, itself. There is no name for what you described.
What is the bottom part of your leg called?
The bone on the top of your leg is called your femur or your thigh bone.
What is your lower leg bone called?
The legs contain four bones each, if the feet and ankles are not included:The femur: thigh bone, also the longest and strongest in the body.The patella: kneecap.The fibula: the shorter of two bones in the lower leg, to the outside and behind the tibia.The tibia: the longer bone in the lower leg, connected to both ankle and knee (the fibula is only in the ankle, and connected to the back of this).
What part of the body is the ankle?
The ankle is the joint between the foot and the lower leg.
Which of the following is an example of a pivotal joint?
the joint that joins the skull to the first vertebra
What is the pressure point of the thigh?
The pressure point of the thigh is on the inside, near where the leg joins the hip. This is where you push to stop bleeding in the lower leg.
What are some tips when carving a turkey?
Begin by cutting from the neck to the tail along the breast bone, then angle the knife outwards along the rib cage. Slice the breast across, and repeat with the other breast. Pull the leg outwards and cut around the joint to remove it, and repeat. Find the joint between the leg and thigh bones and slice the thigh meat along the thigh bone and repeat with the other leg.
Between the leg and the hip have a pivotal joint?
The joint between the leg and hip is a ball and socket joint not a pivotal joint.
