Where in the body do you have each of the following types of

Where in the body do you have each of the following types of joints: Ball and socket, hinge, pivot, and fixed?

Solution

1)Ball and socket joint: is found in hip and shoulder joints as it is a joint where the large, round head of a bone fits into the cup of another bone.

2)Hinge joint is found in . interphalangeal joints - which is present in fingers and toes providing forward and backward moment in a single plane.

3)Pivot joint is fount in the neck as it is an atlantoaxial joint between the atlas and axis..

4)Fixed joints are the joints between the tooth roots and the mandible or maxillary bones.