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enarthrosis Anat.|ɛnɑːˈθrəʊsɪs|
[a. Gr. ἐνάρθρωσις jointing in, f. ἔναρθρος jointed. Cf. arthrosis.]
The jointing of the ball-like head of a bone into a socket; the ball-and-socket joint.
1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. vi. xlii. (1678) 166 Enarthrosis, when the head of a bone is wholly received in the cavity of another. 1741Monro Anat. (ed. 3) 249 The superior round Head of this Bone of the Arm is articulated by Enarthrosis, with the Glenoid Cavity of the Scapula. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxiv. 412 M. Latreille calls the articulation of the head in this genus Apoderus Enarthrosis. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 33 The..needs of these limbless animals [Ophidia] are met by the ‘ball and socket’ articulation or enarthrosis of the procoelian bodies of their vertebrae. |