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Title: 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
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