Amphiarthrosis

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Amphiarthrosis
Diagrammatic section of a symphysis.
Gray's	subject #70 285
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In Amphiarthroses (slightly movable articulations), the contiguous bony surfaces are either:

• symphysis: connected by broad flattened disks of fibrocartilage, of a more or less complex structure, as in the articulations between the bodies of the vertebrae.

• syndesmosis: united by an interosseous ligament, as in the inferior tibiofibular articulation.

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