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Q. Why are they only found there? 



A. Because these articulations having equal motion in 

 all directions, require, equal support in all directions. 



Q. What is the use of the fibrous capsules ? 



tf. To give strength to the articulations; they do not 

 exhale the synovia. 



Q. Are the capsules which form around unreduced 

 heads of bones fibrous? 



*ft. They are not; no fibres can be traced in them they 

 are serous. 



Of the Fibrous Sheaths. 



Q. How are they divided? 



A. Into partial and general. 



Q. Explain this division. 



A. The partial are attached to one or two tendons; the 

 general confine or belong to an assemblage of muscles or 

 tendons, as at the wrist and ankle, where the annular liga- 

 ments are. 



Q. What muscles in the limbs have the partial fibrous 

 sheaths ? 



/2. Only the flexors; the extensors are destitute of them. 

 The reason of this is the flexors require more strength and 

 support than the extensors. 



Of the Aponeuroses. 



Q. How are the aponeuroses divided? 



Ji. Into those for covering and those for insertion. 



Q. How are the aponeuroses for covering sub-divided? 



