Syndesmosis

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Syndesmosis
Gray's subject #70 285
Dorlands/Elsevier s_32/12777400

A syndesmosis is slightly movable articulation where the contiguous bony surfaces are united by an interosseous ligament, as in the inferior tibiofibular articulation.

Another example is found between the radius and ulna.[1]

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