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Pertaining to the joints. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.

Chondritis of a joint.

Surgical fixation of joints.

An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.

Pertaining to arthrodynia, or pain in the joints; rheumatic.

The description of joints.

That part of anatomy which treats of joints.

Any disease of the joints.

A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal, a.

A strong scalpel used in the dissection of joints.

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

Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.

After the manner, or in the form, of a joint.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.

A cunning or artful fellow. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson. -- Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, "the artificial system" in botany, which is the same as the Linnæan syste…

Artificial. [Obs.] Johnson.