Which of the following joints becomes a synostosis?

Question

) gomphosis

B) distal tibia / fibular syndesmosis

C) femoropatellar joint

D) lambdoidal suture

E) all of the above typically become synostoses

Answer 1

D - the lambdoidal suture, between the parietal and occipital bones of the skull, closes clinically at around a year of age in humans, then ossifies completely to become a synostosis in adulthood (around 30 years old)