Section 2
Fibrous Joints
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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).
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.