Can DESCRIBE syntax be embedded in SELECT statement?

In MySQL, the syntax DESCRIBE can show a table's structure, but it cannot be embedded to normal statement; is there some tricky way to do it?

For example, this shows the table1 structure, returned as a table (but SQL statement does not think so)

DESCRIBE `table1`

But this doesn't work:

SELECT * FROM (DESCRIBE `table1`)

Is there a way to enable it?

I want to join the "table" created by DESCRIBE syntax, how can I do it?