What is the difference between amphiarthrosis and diarthrosis?
Christopher Anderson
Published Mar 14, 2026
What is the difference between amphiarthrosis and diarthrosis?
An amphiarthrosis is a slightly moveable joint, such as the pubic symphysis or an intervertebral cartilaginous joint. A diarthrosis is a freely moveable joint.
Which joint is least movable?
Fibrous joints – the bones of fibrous joints are joined by fibrous tissue, such as the sutures in the skull or the pelvis. Fibrous joints allow no movement at all.
Is a amphiarthrosis joint movable?
Amphiarthrosis joints allow a small amount of mobility and include cartilaginous joints. Diarthrosis joints are the freely movable synovial joints. Synovial joints can also be classified as nonaxial, monoaxial, biaxial, and multiaxial.
How moveable are Diarthroses joints?
Diarthroses are freely movable articulations. In these joints, the contiguous bony surfaces are covered with articular cartilage and connected by ligaments lined by synovial membrane.
What are amphiarthrosis joints?
Amphiarthrosis. An amphiarthrosis is a joint that has limited mobility. An example of this type of joint is the cartilaginous joint that unites the bodies of adjacent vertebrae. Filling the gap between the vertebrae is a thick pad of fibrocartilage called an intervertebral disc (Figure 9.3).
Which cartilaginous joints are Synarthroses which are Amphiarthroses?
A synarthrosis is an immobile or nearly immobile joint. An example is the manubriosternal joint or the joints between the skull bones surrounding the brain. An amphiarthrosis is a slightly moveable joint, such as the pubic symphysis or an intervertebral cartilaginous joint. A diarthrosis is a freely moveable joint.
Which cartilaginous joints are Synarthroses?
Immovable joints (called synarthroses) include skull sutures, the articulations between the teeth and the mandible, and the joint found between the first pair of ribs and the sternum.
What is an example of Amphiarthrosis?
What is a amphiarthrosis?
What kind of movement does amphiarthrosis allow to move?
Amphiarthroses allow only slight movement; therefore, either type of cartilaginous joint is an amphiarthrosis.
What is an amphiarthrosis joint?
What are two types of amphiarthrosis joints?
There are two types of slightly movable joints (amphiarthrosis): syndesmosis and symphysis.