enarthrosis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsball-and-socket jointspheroid jointcotyloid jointenarthrodial jointarticulatio spheroidea

   Broadersynovial joint

   Narrowershoulderhip

Other forms of enarthrosis

plural

enarthroses

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 enarthrosis

What does enarthrosis mean?

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

How many syllables are in enarthrosis?

enarthrosis has 4 syllables: e-nar-thro-sis. The stress falls on "nar".

What is another word for enarthrosis?

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

enarthrosis 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.