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Types of Gliding Joints

Published Aug,14 2017 | By Dr. Christine Princeton, D.O.

Gliding joints are also called plane joints or arthrodial joints. The book "Fundamentals Concepts of Anatomy" describes gliding joints as flat bone diarthroses that move in a gliding action that is limited by ligaments. Ligaments are the fibrous tissues that hold bones together.