cotyloid joint

Questions about cotyloid joint

What does cotyloid joint mean?

cotyloid joint means "a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone".

What is another word for cotyloid joint?

Close synonyms include ball-and-socket joint, spheroid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, articulatio spheroidea. 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 cotyloid joint a common word?

cotyloid joint 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.