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Question
CBSEENBI11025231

Ball and socket joints can be seen in

  • wrist 

  • fingers

  • neck

  • shoulders

Solution

D.

shoulders

Ball-and-socket joint, also called spheroidal joint, in vertebrate anatomy, a joint in which the rounded surface of a bone moves within a depression on another bone, allowing greater freedom of movement than any other kind of joint.

Ball and socket joints are found in shoulder joint (humerus in glenoid cavity) and hip joint (femur in acetabulum).