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Muscular Skeletal joints - Vocabulary terms - Lesson 225

Vocabulary:      1.       Articulation means joint.  2.    Bursa means sac of fluid at a joint.  3.   Ligament means the connective tissue which binds bones to other bones; or supports and strengthens the joint.  4.   Suture joint is a type of joint in which opposed surfaces are closely united.  5.   Synovial cavity is the space between bones at a synovial joint.  6.   Synovial fluid is the viscous fluid within the synovial cavity. Synovial fluid is as same as the viscosity in egg white; or this results for the origin of the term(syn- means like, ov/o means egg).      7.   Synovial joint is a freely movable joint.  8.   Synovial membrane is the membrane lining the synovial cavity. 9.   Tendon is the connective tissue which binds muscles to bones. The Combining Forms with their meanings are listed below. 1. ankyl/o means crooked, bent stiff and its terminology is ankylosis which means a fusion of the bones across a joint space by either bony tissue (bony ankylosis) or growt