The nurse is caring for a client with a knee injury. When documenting this injury in the medical record, the nurse identifies the knee as which type of joint?
1. Saddle.
2. Hinge.
3. Pivot.
4. Plane.
Correct Answer: 2
The knee and elbows are hinge joints; the thumbs are saddle joints; the neck is a pivot joint; the intercarpals and intertarsals are plane joints.
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