Answer the following:

a. What is a ball and socket joint?


b. Which of the skull bones are movable?


c. Why can our elbow not move backwards?

a. A kind of joint in which the rounded end of one bone fits into the cavity (hollow space) of the other bone is called ball and socket joint. It allows movements in all directions.

b. In the skull, only lower jaw is movable.


c. Our elbow cannot move backwards because it has hinge joint which allows movement in only one direction.


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