da admin | Lug 20, 2022 | Group
The bodies of adjacent vertebrae are strongly anchored to each other in their anterior part by an intervertebral disc. This structure provides padding between the bones during weight bearing, and because it can change shape, also allows for movement between the...
da admin | Lug 20, 2022 | Group
The Skull is formed by different bones kept together by Sutures. The narrow gap between the bones is filled with dense, fibrous connective tissue that unites the bones. The long sutures located between the bones of the brain case are not straight, but instead follow...
da admin | Lug 20, 2022 | Vocabulary
The articulations between the bodies of the vertebrae are amphiarthrodial joints, and the individual vertebrae move only slightly on each other. When, however, this slight degree of movement between the pairs of bones takes place in all the joints of the vertebral...
da admin | Lug 20, 2022 | Vocabulary
See Intervertebral Discs – Articulations of Vertebral Bodies.
da admin | Lug 20, 2022 | Group
This group describes all joints of the axial skeleton: head, spine and thorax.
