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  • knee joint
    joint
    / Fibrous joints

    …its skull, a process called molding. (The effects of molding usually disappear quickly.) After birth, all sutures become immobile joints. The expanded anterior and posterior ends of the sagittal suture are called fontanels; they lie immediately above a large blood channel (superior sagittal sinus).

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    …its skull, a process called molding. (The effects of molding usually disappear quickly.) After birth, all sutures become immobile joints. The expanded anterior and posterior ends of the sagittal suture are called fontanels; they lie immediately above a large blood channel (superior sagittal sinus).

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