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Is suture a synovial joint

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No, sutures are where two bones more or less fuse together into one bone.

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Suture joints are not moveable. They are site where growing bony plates met when finally full grown.

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No, suture joints are immovable, like the joints between the skull plates that fuse during infancy.

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No it isnt because a suture is a fibrous connective tissue between bone and surfaces.

Synovial joints are mostly freely moving

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