diarthrosis

Other forms of diarthrosis

plural

diarthroses

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about diarthrosis

What does diarthrosis mean?

diarthrosis means "a joint so articulated as to move freely".

How many syllables are in diarthrosis?

diarthrosis has 4 syllables: di-ar-thro-sis. The stress falls on "ar".

What is another word for diarthrosis?

Close synonyms include synovial joint, articulatio synovialis. 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 diarthrosis a common word?

diarthrosis 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.