fibrous joint

Questions about fibrous joint

What does fibrous joint mean?

fibrous joint means "an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)".

What is another word for fibrous joint?

Close synonyms include suture, sutura. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fibrous joint a common word?

fibrous joint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.