Ligaments connect bones to bones. Muscles are connected to bone by tendons.
Ligaments are the fibrous connective tissue that holds bones in a joint together.
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.
Because the expansion joint in cross-section looks like a dog bone.
The metacarpophalangeal joint is typically known as the pastern. This is the joint between the metacarpus (cannon bone) and the first phalanx (the pastern bone).
The Scientific name for the hip joint is:Pelvis
Its a joint. A joint is where you can bend like your knee and your elbow.
The three functional articulations are synarthrosis which is an immovable join and example would be a suture, amphiarthrosis a slightly immovable joint an example is the symphysis, and last the diarthrosis a freely movable joint such as the elbow or knee joint.
A joint
The scientific name of your shoulder bone is The Scapula
The Mandible
The bone in the upper hindlimb of a dog is called the femur. It is the longest and strongest bone in the dog's body, connecting the hip joint to the knee joint.
There are two joints in the shoulder - the 'main one' that joints the bone of the arm (humerus) to the shoulder blade (scapula) is called the glenohumeral joint. A smaller joint connects the shoulder blade with the collar bone (clavicle). This is called the acromioclavicular joint.