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Mixed articulation, half-joint; one in which the opposing ends of the bones, tipped with hyaline cartilage, are united by fibrous or fibrocartilaginous material, with an incomplete joint cavity in its center, allowing of partial movement; as the articulations of the bodies of the vertebrae.

Joint formed by fibrous tissue allowing slight motion.

An articulatien, which being, like that of the vertebrae, of the nature of both diarthrosis and synarthrosis, admits of only a small degree of motion.

A mixed articulation, in which the corresponding surfaces of bones are 'united in an intimate manner by an intermediate body, which allows, however, of some slight motion. Such is the junction of the bodies of the vertebrae by means of the intervertebral cartilages. This articulation has also been called Diarthrose de Continuite. The motion it permits is but slight.

A joint in which the surfaces are connected by disks of fibrocartilage, as between vertebrae

A form of articulation intermediate between diarthrosis and synarthrosis, in which the articulating bony surfaces are separated by an elastic substance to which both are attached, so that the mobility is slight, but may be exerted in all directions. The articulations of the bodies of the vertebrae are examples. [Gr.]