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What is the difference between pivot joint and gliding joint?

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Gliding joint: These joints occur where the surface of one bone slide over the another one. These allow gliding movements of one bone slide over the another one.

For example: joints between carpal bones.

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Pivot joint: These joints occur where a bony ring rotates around the pivot axis or where the end of one bone rotates around the axis of another bone.

Pivot Joints Move Side to Side. A pivot joint provides for rotation around only one axis. One bone rotates around another within a concave ring formed in the second bone. ... A pivot joint is what enables the neck to rotate to the left and right and the forearm to make a rotating motion.

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