Types of Joints

3. Soft, elastic, gelatinous core.
7. Slightly movable joints
8. discs The vertebrae are separated and cushioned by pads of fibrocartilage called ______.
10. Binds the teeth to the bony sockets in the maxillary bone and mandible.
11. Immovable joint created when two bones fuse and the boundary between them disappears.
12. Bridge between two articulating bones.
14. ______ bones are connected by a ligament.

1. protrude or stick out through an abnormal body opening.
2. Encases nucleus pulposus.
4. Synarthrotic jointed located only between the bones of the skull.
5. At a ______ the articulating bones are separated by a wedge or pad of fibrocartilage.
6. Immovable joints
9. Example of an amphiarthrotic joint.
12. One of the parts that connects the bone in the spine has moved out of its usual place.
13. Freely movable joints