Structural categories

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Structural categories

• Fibrous joints
• Bones are joined by fibrous tissue
• Cartilaginous joints
• Bones are joined by cartilage
• Synovial joints
• Bones are joined at a fluid-filled space lined
  with synovial membrane

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Functional categories

• Immovable joints
• Bones dont move relative to one another
• Synarthroses
• Usually fibrous joints
• Slightly movable joints
• Bones can move, but not much
• Amphiarthroses
• Usually cartilaginous
• Freely movable joints
• Bones have significant movement
• Diarthroses
• Synovial joints