cotyloid joint n.
See ball-and-socket joint.
| cotyloid joint | |
noun | |
| a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone [syn: ball-and-socket joint] |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |