Articular Definition

är-tĭkyə-lər
adjective
Of a joint or joints.
An articular inflammation.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to a joint or joints.
The articular surfaces of bones.
American Heritage Medicine

(anatomy) Of, at, or relating to the joints of the body.

An articular disease; an articular process.
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Origin of Articular

  • Middle English articuler from Latin articulāris from articulus small joint article

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin articularis

    From Wiktionary

Articular Sentence Examples

  • Tracheae typically opening by stigmata situated in the articular sockets (acetabula) of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th pairs of appendages.

  • Dentary movably attached to the tip of the articular bone of the mandible.

  • Lower articular surface of the astragalus divided into two nearly equal facets, one for the navicular and a second for the cuboid bone.

  • Many of them, like ungulates, are specialized for swift running, and have unusually long limbs, with ridges developed on the articular surfaces of the lower bones; the clavicles are more or less reduced; the thorax is more compressed than usual, with a narrower breast-bone; and there is a marked tendency to the reduction or loss of the lateral toes, more especially in the hind limb.

  • Their lower articular surfaces, instead of being pulley-like, with deep ridges and grooves, as in other Artiodactyla, are simple, rounded and smooth.

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