Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hinge-like; of or pertaining to a ginglymus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.
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- adjective anatomy Relating to, or resembling, a
ginglymus , orhinge joint ;ginglyform .
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Examples
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Far the greater number of these accidents occur at those articulations which are known as the ginglymoid
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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The skeleton lost all patience, and, raising its arm, shook its fist angrily at Tom, who, with his eyes fixed on the elbow, merely shouted his joy, at perceiving the "ginglymoid" movement.
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On the opposite side (behind?) the vertebrae are connected together by a ginglymoid articulation.
On The Articulations 2007
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This proclivity is constant; the normal interphalangeal articulation is an incomplete ginglymoid joint and while its dorso-volar diameter is great, this in no wise compensates for its disproportionately narrow transverse diameter.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The strictly ginglymoid or hinge-joints admit of flexion and extension only.
III. Syndesmology. 4. The Kind of Movement Admitted in Joints 1918
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These articulations are of the condyloid kind, formed by the reception of the rounded heads of the metacarpal bones into shallow cavities on the proximal ends of the first phalanges, with the exception of that of the thumb, which presents more of the characters of a ginglymoid joint.
III. Syndesmology. 6j. Metacarpophalangeal Articulations 1918
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The interphalangeal articulations are ginglymoid joints, and each has a plantar and two collateral ligaments.
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The orbicular, for the same reason, require less force to separate them than the ginglymoid; thus dislocations occur with more ease and frequency at the shoulder than at the elbow, at the hip than at the knee, and so on for other similar articulations.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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It may be practised at a much later day in luxations of the orbicular than of the ginglymoid joints and this remark applies particularly to those at the shoulder, as all experience demonstrates.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
hernesheir commented on the word ginglymoid
ginglyform
December 6, 2010