What’s on the Joints poster
A 6-row table: Type · Example · Moves.
Synovial joints, by the shape of the surfaces.
- Ball and socket — Hip, shoulder — Every direction
- Hinge — Elbow, knee — One plane
- Pivot — Neck (C1–C2) — Rotation
- Saddle — Base of thumb — Two planes
- Condyloid — Wrist — Two planes, no rotation
- Gliding — Between vertebrae — Small sliding
The shoulder trades stability for range — the most mobile joint and the most commonly dislocated.
Questions about the Joints poster
- What’s on the Joints poster?
- A 6-row table: Type · Example · Moves. Synovial joints, by the shape of the surfaces. Ball and socket — Hip, shoulder — Every direction; Hinge — Elbow, knee — One plane; Pivot — Neck (C1–C2) — Rotation; Saddle — Base of thumb — Two planes; Condyloid — Wrist — Two planes, no rotation; Gliding — Between vertebrae — Small sliding. The shoulder trades stability for range — the most mobile joint and the most commonly dislocated.
- Who is the Joints poster for?
- Joints belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning anatomy can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Joints poster?
- The shape of a joint decides what it can do. That is the whole classification. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Joints belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Joints?
- Blood, Blood Types and The Body Systems sit alongside Joints in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BloodBlood TypesThe Body Systems
- Is the Joints poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Joints downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Joints poster print at?
- Joints is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Joints loses nothing.Printing guide
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