articulatio trochoidea

1. 1.

   a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation

   “the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint”

   Synonymspivot jointrotary jointrotatory joint

   Broadersynovial joint

Questions about articulatio trochoidea

What does articulatio trochoidea mean?

articulatio trochoidea means "a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation".

What is another word for articulatio trochoidea?

Close synonyms include pivot joint, rotary joint, rotatory joint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is articulatio trochoidea a common word?

articulatio trochoidea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.