Yakitori: The izakayaâa Japanese-style gastropubâis a staple of social life in Japan; a meeting place for friends, a haven for tired businessmen. The most common type of food served at an izakaya is yakitori âmeat skewers slathered in tangy barbecue sauce and grilled to perfection.
Gomphosis = a synarthrotic joint sometimes called a peg-in-socket joint. A gomphosis joint is found on the maxillae and mandible where the teeth are fixed securely in the sockets of the alveolar margins. The fibrous connective tissue between a tooth and its socket is a periodontal ligament. iv.
fibrous joint a joint in which the union of bony elements is by continuous intervening fibrous tissue, which makes little motion possible; the three types are suture, syndesmosis, and gomphosis. Called also immovable or synarthrodial joint and synarthrosis. synovial joint that allows movement in only one plane, through the presence of a pair of collateral ligaments that run on either side of the joint. Examples are the elbow and the interphalangeal joints of the digits. The jaw is primarily a hinge joint, but it can also move somewhat from side to side.