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Condyle

A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.

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Appendage 76% connected

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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Outgrowth 76% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Condylar 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a condyle.

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Condylar 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a condyle.

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Bone 70% connected

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, bl…

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Antitrochanter noun · 78% connection

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

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Apophysis noun · 78% connection

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

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Articular noun · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.

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Astragalus noun · 78% connection

The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.

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Canon bone unknown · 78% connection

The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middl…

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Cleche adjective · 78% connection

Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearin…

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Columella noun · 78% connection

A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of th…

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Concave adjective · 78% connection

Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surfac…

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Concavity noun · 78% connection

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

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Concavo-concave adjective · 78% connection

Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.

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Convex adjective · 78% connection

Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line w…

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Convexo-concave adjective · 78% connection

Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscu…

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Emphasise verb · 78% connection

To make a point stand out as especially important.

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Enarthrosis noun · 78% connection

a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone

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Facet noun · 78% connection

A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.

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Fillet noun · 78% connection

A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

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Ginglymodi noun · 78% connection

An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocerc…

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Glenoid adjective · 78% connection

Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavi…

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