1. Differences in male/female skeleton
Female skull is smaller, lighter, and has less obvious muscular attachments
Female coxal bones are lighter, thinner, and have less obvious muscular attachments
Female pelvic cavity is wider in all diameters, is shorter, roomier, and less funnel-shaped
Female sacrum is wider with sacral curvature more sharply bent and coccyx is more movable

2. JOINTS Fibrous joints—between bones that closely contact one another
Cartilaginous joints—disks of cartilage connect the bones
Synovial joints—ends of bones covered with hyaline cartilage, have flattened shock-absorbing menisci and usually have fluid filled sacs called bursae which aid in the movement of tendons as they pass over bony parts

3. Types of synovial joints
Ball and socket—movement in all planes
Shoulder or hip
Condyloid—many types of movement but NO rotation
Joints between metacarpals and phalanges
Gliding—sliding and twisting
Ankle, wrist
Hinge—flexion and extension
Elbow, knee, phalanges
Pivot—rotation around a central axis
Joint between proximal ends of radius and ulna
Saddle—variety of movements
Between carpal and metacarpal of thumb