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  • noun Plural form of condyle.

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Examples

  • Their elongate, fused metatarsi thus bears three distinct distal condyles and look, at least superficially, remarkably like the tarsometatarsi of birds.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Could it be that the articular condyles of the jaw bones were grinding against the bones of the skull?

    Lunging is expensive, jaws can be noisy, and what’s with the asymmetry? Rorquals part III Darren Naish 2006

  • The morphology of the three occipital condyles, for example, indicates that the head can be rotated on the cylindrical atlas-axis complex by about 360º, which obviously way surpasses that of any other tetrapod.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Could it be that the articular condyles of the jaw bones were grinding against the bones of the skull?

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • At the elbow it is broad, and has condyles and cavities, and is of

    Instruments Of Reduction 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • Instead of a rounded knob on one end and condyles on the other, the femoral shaft terminated in long jagged spikes.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Both temporo-mandibular joints and occipital condyles were gnarled by arthritis.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Instead of a rounded knob on one end and condyles on the other, the femoral shaft terminated in long jagged spikes.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

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