cartilaginous joint

Nonsynovial joint in which the articulating bones or cartilages are connected by cartilage. Examples: Spheno-occipital synchondrosis, first sternocostal joint, pubic symphysis.[FMA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cartilaginous joint is

Nonsynovial joint in which the articulating bones or cartilages are connected by cartilage. Examples: Spheno-occipital synchondrosis, first sternocostal joint, pubic symphysis.[FMA]. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cartilaginous joint is

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the cartilaginous joint connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of nonsynovial joint.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cartilaginous joint. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as articulatio cartilaginea and junctura cartilaginea. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002213, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the cartilaginous joint?

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the cartilaginous joint connect to?

A kind of: nonsynovial joint.

Is the cartilaginous joint the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.