Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy, resembling or shaped like a condyle; related to a condyle or condyles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.

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  • adjective Relating to or resembling a condyle.

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Examples

  • Your jaw bone ascends toward the back (almost at a right angle to the horizontal line of the teeth), ending in a rounded protuberance (the condyloid process), which fits into a shallow groove in your temporal bone on the lower part of your skull.

    Screaming Mummies! 2009

  • The jaw-bone, in few cases, is completely dislocated, for the zygomatic process formed from the upper jaw-bone (malar?) and the bone behind the ear (temporal?) shuts up the heads of the under jaw, being above the one (condyloid process?), and below the other

    On The Articulations 2007

  • Examples of condyloid joints are found at the knuckles and where the wrist bones articulate with the radius and ulna.

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

  • * Kinds of Movable Joints. — * The different kinds of movable joints are the ball and socket joint, the hinge joint, the pivot joint, the condyloid joint, and the gliding joint.

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

  • -- In common with the perforans, this muscle arises from the inner condyloid ridge of the humerus.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • The _condyloid_ joint is formed by the fitting of the ovoid

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

  • This groove lodges the terminal part of the transverse sinus, and opening into it, close to its medial margin, is the orifice of the condyloid canal.

    II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone 1918

  • At the base of either condyle the bone is tunnelled by a short canal, the hypoglossal canal (anterior condyloid foramen).

    II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone 1918

  • The wrist-joint proper is a true condyloid articulation, and therefore all movements but rotation are permitted.

    III. Syndesmology. 6g. Intercarpal Articulations 1918

  • Behind either condyle is a depression, the condyloid fossa, which receives the posterior margin of the superior facet of the atlas when the head is bent backward; the floor of this fossa is sometimes perforated by the condyloid canal, through which an emissary vein passes from the transverse sinus.

    II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone 1918

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