MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The two classification schemes correlate: Synarthroses are fibrous joints. Amphiarthroses are cartilaginous joints. Diarthroses are synovial joints.

Detailed explanation-2: -The three types of fibrous joints are sutures, gomphoses, and syndesmoses. A suture is the narrow fibrous joint that unites most bones of the skull.

Detailed explanation-3: -Syndesmosis. A syndesmosis (“fastened with a band”) is a type of fibrous joint in which two parallel bones are united to each other by fibrous connective tissue.

Detailed explanation-4: -Synarthroses are immovable joints. The singular form is synarthrosis. In these joints, the bones come in very close contact and are separated only by a thin layer of fibrous connective tissue. The sutures in the skull are examples of immovable joints.