Which of the following type of joint is classified as immovable joint?
Correct Answer: All of the above
Description: Immovable joints or synahroses are classified into three types: sutures, gomphoses and synchondroses. Aicular surfaces of the two bones are held together by fibrous connective tissue.Sutures are fibrous joints with closely united opposing surfaces such as the coronal suture.Gomphoses are joints which has a conical process inseed into a socket like poion.Synchondroses are temporary joints in which the intervening hyaline cailage conves to bone by adulthood.Ref: Straight A's in Anatomy and Physiology By Lippincott Williams & Wilkins page 35.
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