The Anatomy Of The Joints Of Man

Author : Cyril Harry Barnett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Synovial Joints written by Cyril Harry Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the obvious deficiencies in anatomical literature has been a critical up-to-date survey of the articular tissues along with the factors that are concerned in the mechanism of synovial joints. It is most appropriate that three senior anatomists, who have all long attained an international reputation on different aspects of synovial joint structure and function, should have now collaborated in the production of this intellectually stimulating monograph. The structure of individual joints and the movements at them are adequately considered in most standard text-books, but usually the story ends there except for brief, and frequently inadequate, notes on the main features of joint tissues. This text is divided into four sections and each of these has several chapters which, for the most part, are complete in themselves. In Section 1 there is a fairly detailed account of cartilage, synovial membrane, the fibrous capsule and ligaments and the intra-articular structures, with a separate chapter devoted to each of them. Each tissue is considered at all levels of investigation, ranging from the naked-eye to the electron microscopic and there is a full account of the chemical composition of synovial fluid. Section 2, which is entitled "The Biology of Joints", is concerned mainly with the nutrition and respiration of joint tissues and their growth and degeneration. Section 3 commences with a short chapter on the anatomical classification of joints. The classification of joints is a vexed question and it is not necessary to read between the lines to assess the author's opinion on some of the inadequacies of the Nomina Anatomica (1955, 1960). The reviewer agrees with the authors that a satisfactory nomenclature should be indicative of function as well as structure. Most of this third section is devoted to the mechanics of joints, and although this mathematical aspect of anatomy is approached in a simple manner it is obvious that the writer is not only a master of the geometry of articular surfaces but is also an anatomical teacher with a selective aptitude for leading from the simple to the complex. Section 4 is the shortest of the four sections but it contains a wealth of basic facts, some long established and others recently described, on joint movements and their co-ordination.