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

A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

In an articular or an articulate manner.

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

A form of diarthrodial articulation in which the articular surfaces are nearly flat, so that they form only an imperfect ball and socket.

t of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.

lates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.

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.

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

A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebræ; a mammillary process.

brane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary.

d, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spirochæte) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.

The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

aracterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children a…

A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.

creting synovia. Synovial capsule, a closed sac of synovial membrane situated between the articular surfaces at diarthrodial joints. -- Synovial fluid, synovia. -- Synovial membrane, the dense and very smooth connective tissue membrane which secretes synovia and surrounds synovial capsules and other synovial cavities…

e, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye. Trochlear nerve. See Pathetic nerve, under Pathetic.

One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra. -- Zyg`ap*o*phys"i*al, a.