GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Immovable – the two or more bones are in close contact, but no movement can occur – for example, the bones of the skull. The joints of the skull are called sutures.

Detailed explanation-2: -The skull consists of fibrous joints that are made up of fibrous connective tissue. Suture is a special type of fibrous joint which is present only in the skull.

Detailed explanation-3: -(1) Sutures are nonmoving joints that connect bones of the skull. These joints have serrated edges that lock together with fibers of connective tissue. (2) The fibrous articulations between the teeth and the mandible or maxilla are called gomphoses and are also immovable.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 22 bones that make up the skull are regarded as immovable joints. Its limited mobility is caused by the inflexible fibrous joints that make up its body. The sutures, or immovable joints, are what give the skull its immovability.