Exam 10: A: Articulations

Circumduction consists of pivoting a bone on its own axis.

A soldier standing at attention would have his arms fully adducted.

Eversion turns the sole of the foot outward.

Syndesmoses joints have hyaline cartilage at articular surfaces.

When a joint is in anatomical position,a goniometer should read 0°.

The terms inversion and eversion apply to movements of the hand.

A "slipped disk" is the result of deterioration of the nucleus pulposus.

Rotation and circumduction are interchangeable terms.

The structural classification of a joint describes the type of movement the joint allows.

The thumb contains the only saddle joint in the body-the joint between the metacarpal bone and the proximal phalange.

The humerus,the scapula,and the clavicle make up the joint usually referred to as the shoulder joint.