cotyloid joint

Questions about cotyloid joint

What is another word for cotyloid joint?

It depends which cotyloid joint you mean. In the sense “a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone”, the synonyms are ball-and-socket joint, spheroid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, articulatio spheroidea. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cotyloid joint?

WordNet records no antonym for cotyloid joint. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for cotyloid joint come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of cotyloid joint

• Full entry for cotyloid jointAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cotyloid jointWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.