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Section 2

Fibrous Joints

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Boundless Anatomy and Physiology
Physiology
by Boundless
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Fibrous Joints

Fibrous joints are also called fixed or immovable joints because they do not move.

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Sutures

A suture is a type of fibrous joint (synarthrosis) bound by Sharpey's fibers that only occurs in the skull (cranium).

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Syndesmoses

Syndesmoses are slightly movable joints formed where an interosseous ligament joins two bones.

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Gomphoses

A gomphosis is a fibrous joint that binds the teeth to bony sockets in the bones of the maxilla mandible.

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