Synchondrosis
A synchondrosis (Germanized from Synchondrosis , from Greek syn "together" and chondros "cartilage") or cartilaginous is a connection between two bones through hyaline cartilage . This connection belongs to the cartilaginous bone connections ( Articulationes cartilagineae ) and thus to the so-called false joints and is relatively little mobile. A connection through fiber cartilage is called symphysis .
Synchondroses occur in the mammalian body :
- between the skull bones of the skull base ( Synchondroses cranii )
- between the two halves of the lower jaw ( intermandibular synchondrosis )
- between the individual pieces of bone of the sternum ( synchondroses sternales )
- between the bony parts of the ribs and the sternum (costal cartilage, cartilago costalis )
The growth plate between the epiphysis and diaphysis in growing long bones also corresponds morphologically to a specialized synchondrosis. Synchondroses can ossify in old age ( synostosis ).
literature
- Franz-Viktor Salomon: Bone Connections . In: Franz-Viktor Salomon et al. (Hrsg.): Anatomie für die Tiermedizin . 2nd ext. Edition. Enke-Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8304-1075-1 , pp. 110-147.