Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a joint or joints.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to or affecting an articulation or joint; entering into the composition of an articulation: as, the articular surface of a bone; an articular cartilage; an articular disease.
- In zoology, articulate; specifically, of or pertaining to the Articulata.
- noun Same as
articulare .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the joints
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of, at, or relating to the
joints of the body.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or affecting the joints of the body
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Currently, BioCleanse and other sterilization methods cannot be used to process fresh femoral condyles, since it is thought that chondrocytes must be viable to maintain articular cartilage function. (emphasis mine)
Medpundit 2004
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Currently, BioCleanse and other sterilization methods cannot be used to process fresh femoral condyles, since it is thought that chondrocytes must be viable to maintain articular cartilage function. (emphasis mine)
Archive 2004-07-01 2004
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The BioCart ™ Cartilage Regeneration System is an autologous chondrocyte implant system that is a safe, minimally invasive, high-quality implant for long-term articular cartilage regeneration stemming from joint cartilage defects and injuries.
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So the quadrate and the articular are the two bones that in all other animals except mammals make up the jaw.
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The layer of compact bone which forms the joint surface, and to which the articular cartilage is attached, is called the articular lamella.
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The DePuy orthopedic division of Johnson & Johnson, citing declining sales, began phasing out both models of the device - formally known as an articular surface replacement device, which DePuy marketed under the name ASR - in November 2009 and formally
NYT > Home Page By BARRY MEIER 2012
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For example, if you have ever looked at the end of a turkey drumstick, the smooth, hard, white part is a very smooth coating called articular cartilage.
St. Louis Game Time 2009
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Joints have a cushion called articular cartilage that starts out thick, smooth and well lubricated and then gets worn down.
WBAY Action 2 News 2008
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The ordinary manipulation of the shoulder can be accomplished with the patient lying down; but if special conditions, such as articular stiffening, call for unusual care or unusual force, it will be found best to treat the shoulder with the patient seated.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
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Red blood cells and osteoblasts, an osteoblast is a cell that’s responsible for the formation, or ossification, of bone, gradually change the model to permanent bone and periosteum, a layer of dense connective tissue that covers the bone surface, except at the joints also known as the articular surfaces.
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