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spheroid joint
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. spheroid joint - a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bonearticulatio spheroidea, ball-and-socket joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosisarticulatio synovialis, diarthrosis, synovial joint - a joint so articulated as to move freelyarticulatio humeri, shoulder joint, shoulder - a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapulaarticulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint, hip - the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum |
EncyclopediaSeeball-and-socket jointspheroid joint
ball-and-socket joint The most freely movable type of synovial joint, in which the ball-like end of one bone (e.g., the humerus, femur) is surrounded by a spherical cartilaginous encasement, or “socket” (e.g., hip joint), or a group of structures that act as a functionally spherical encasement (e.g., shoulder joint), which allows free mobility of the articulating bone.ball-and-sock·et joint (bawl-sok'ĕt joynt) A multiaxial synovial joint in which a more or less extensive sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone.
Synonym(s): cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, spheroid joint. spheroid jointA multiaxial joint with spheroid surfaces. See also: jointFinancialSeeJointspheroid joint
Synonyms for spheroid jointnoun a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other boneSynonyms- articulatio spheroidea
- ball-and-socket joint
- cotyloid joint
- enarthrodial joint
- enarthrosis
Related Words- articulatio synovialis
- diarthrosis
- synovial joint
- articulatio humeri
- shoulder joint
- shoulder
- articulatio coxae
- coxa
- hip joint
- hip
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