synovial fluid

1. 1.

   viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc.

   Synonymssynovia

   Broadersecretion

Questions about synovial fluid

What does synovial fluid mean?

synovial fluid means "viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc.".

What is another word for synovial fluid?

Close synonyms include synovia. 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 synovial fluid a common word?

synovial fluid 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.