Types of Joints

3. Soft, elastic, gelatinous core.
4. One of the parts that connects the bone in the spine has moved out of its usual place.
5. The vertebrae are separated and cushioned by pads of fibrocartilage called ______.
9. ______ bones are connected by a ligament.
13. Immovable joints
14. At a ______ the articulating bones are separated by a wedge or pad of fibrocartilage.
15. Slightly movable joints

1. Example of an amphiarthrotic joint.
2. Encases nucleus pulposus.
6. Bridge between two articulating bones.
7. Immovable joint created when two bones fuse and the boundary between them disappears.
8. Synarthrotic jointed located only between the bones of the skull.
10. protrude or stick out through an abnormal body opening.
11. Freely movable joints
12. Binds the teeth to the bony sockets in the maxillary bone and mandible.