Solid Joints (Fibrous and Cartilaginous)

Question 1

Occur only in the skull where adjacent bones are linked by a thin layer of connective tissue

Answer 1

Sutures

Question 2

What is the thin layer of connective tissue that links adjacent bones in the skull?

Answer 2

Sutural ligaments

Question 3

Occur only between teeth and adjacent bone; short collagen fibers in PDL run between root and alveolar bone

Answer 3

Gomphoses

Question 4

Joints in which two adjacent bones are linked by a ligament

Answer 4

Syndesmoses

Question 5

Occur where two ossification centers in a developing bone remain separated by a layer of cartilage; allow bone growth and eventually become completely ossified

Answer 5

Synchondroses

Question 6

Occur where two separate bones are interconnected by cartilage

Answer 6

Symphyses

Question 7

Growth plates

Answer 7

Synchondroses

Question 8

Intervertebral discs

Answer 8

Symphyses

Question 9

Interosseous membrane

Answer 9

Syndesmoses

Question 10

List the fibrous types of solid joints

Answer 10

Sutures, Gomphoses, Syndesmoses

Question 11

List the types of cartilaginous solid joints

Answer 11

Synchondroses and Symphyses