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State the type of movement and the location of the joint:

Gliding


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Gliding joints:

  1. Gliding joints are also known as plane or planar joints.
  2. In this, two or more flat bones move freely together without them rubbing or crushing each other.
  3. It glides in any of the directions.
  4. The ankle joint and the wrist joints are the gliding joints.

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