synovial joint
Joint in which the articulating bones or cartilages are connected by an articular capsule which encloses a synovial membrane and a synovial cavity. Examples: Temporomandibular joint, knee joint.[FMA]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the synovial joint is
Joint in which the articulating bones or cartilages are connected by an articular capsule which encloses a synovial membrane and a synovial cavity. Examples: Temporomandibular joint, knee joint.[FMA]. The atlas records it as a joint at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the synovial joint is
It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the synovial joint connects to
The atlas records 24 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of skeletal joint.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the synovial 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 synoviale, diarthroses, diarthrosis, diarthrosis joint and diarthrodial joints. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002217, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: skeletal joint.
- subtype: atlanto-occipital joint, carpometacarpal joint, condylar joint, costovertebral joint, elbow joint and humeroulnar joint, and 13 more.
- contains: articular cartilage of joint, synovial cavity of joint and synovial membrane of synovial joint.
- surrounded by: articular capsule.
Questions
Where is the synovial joint?
It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the synovial joint connect to?
A kind of: skeletal joint.
Is the synovial 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.