Contemporary Classification (A. Fibrous Joints or Synarthrosis)

Question 1

What term is now used to identify the synarthrosis joint type?

Answer 1

Fibrous joints

Question 2

What is the name given to a condition in which bones are fused together by bone?

Answer 2

Synostosis

Question 3

What is the condition in which teeth are abnormally aligned during closure of the mouth?

Answer 3

Malocclusion

Question 4

The fibrous connective tissue holding the seams of the skull together are called what?

Answer 4

Sutural ligaments

Question 5

What type of ossification pattern and suture appearance typically forms the true suture?

Answer 5

Intramembraneous ossification; interlocking edges

Question 6

What are the classifications of true sutures (sutura vera) based on suture appearance?

Answer 6

Serrate, denticulate, and limbous

Question 7

What are the classic examples of the serrate suture?

Answer 7

Sagittal suture and metopic suture

Question 8

The sagittal or metopic sutures would be examples of which suture classification?

Answer 8

Serrate suture

Question 9

What are the classic examples of the denticaulate suture?

Answer 9

Lambdoid suture and sagittal suture (posterior part)

Question 10

The lambdoid suture or the posterior part of the sagittal suture would be examples of which suture classification?

Answer 10

Denticulate suture

Question 11

Which suture classification demonstrates interlocking and overlapping characteristics?

Answer 11

Limbous suture

Question 12

What are the classic examples of the limbous suture?

Answer 12

Coronal suture (inferior part)and temporo-parietal suture (inferior part)

Question 13

The inferior part of the coronal suture or the inferior part of the temporo-parietal suture would be examples of which suture classification?

Answer 13

Limbous suture

Question 14

What type of ossification pattern and suture appearance typically forms the false suture?

Answer 14

Endochondral ossification; non-interlocking edges

Question 15

What are the classifications of false sutures (sutura notha) based on suture appearance?

Answer 15

Squamous and harmonia

Question 16

Overlapping, non-interlocking sutures would be examples of which classification?

Answer 16

Squamous suture

Question 17

What is the classic example of the squamous suture?

Answer 17

Most of the temporo-parietal suture

Question 18

What is the the classification of most of the temporo-parietal suture?

Answer 18

Squamous suture

Question 19

Sutures which neither overlap nor interlock are classified as what?

Answer 19

Plane sutures (sutura harmonia)

Question 20

What is the classic example of the plane suture (sutura harmonia)?

Answer 20

Cruciate suture

Question 21

The cruciate suture is the classic example of which suture classification?

Answer 21

Plane suture (sutura harmonia)

Question 22

Which individual sutures form the cruciate suture?

Answer 22

Intermaxillary, interpalatine, and palato-maxillary sutures

Question 23

What is the classification of a “peg-in-socket” joint?

Answer 23

Gomphosis

Question 24

Which joint classification would involve a “nail” appearance?

Answer 24

Gomphosis

Question 25

What is an example of a gomphosis?

Answer 25

Tooth-alveolar socket/dental alveolus of the maxilla or mandible

Question 26

What is the ligament of the gomphosis joint classification?

Answer 26

Periodontal ligament

Question 27

Which joint classification would involve a fissure condition or appearance?

Answer 27

Schindylesis

Question 28

What is an example of the schindylesis?

Answer 28

Osseous nasal septum: sphenoid-ethmoid articulation, sphenoid-vomer articualtion, ethmoid-vomer articulation, vomer-palatine articulation or vomer-maxilla articulation

Question 29

The osseous nasal septum (sphenoid-ethmoid articulation, sphenoid-vomer articulation, ethmoid-vomer articulation, vomer-palatine articulation or vomer-maxilla articulation) is an example of which joint classification?

Answer 29

Schindylesis

Question 30

What fibrous connective tissue classically fills the joint space of a syndesmosis?

Answer 30

Interosseous ligament

Question 31

What are the classic examples of the less moveable or "fixed" syndesmosis?

Answer 31

Tibia-fibula shaft articulation, radio-ulnar shaft articulation, coraco-clavicular joint or tympano-stapedial joint

Question 32

The tibia-fibula shaft articulation (or radio-ulnar shaft articulation, coraco-clavicular join, tympano-stapedial joint) is an example of which joint classification?

Answer 32

Less moveable or "fixed" syndesmosis

Question 33

What are the examples of the typical syndesmosis from the vertebral column?

Answer 33

Most of the ligamentous joints of the vertebral column and ligamentous sacro-iliac joints

Question 34

The ligamentous sacro-iliac joints (or most of the ligamentous joints of the vertebral column) are examples of which joint classification?

Answer 34

Syndesmosis