Enarthrosis definitions

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ENARTHRO'SIS, n. [Gr. a joint.] In anatomy, that species of articulation which consists in the insertion of the round end of a bone in the cup-like cavity of another, forming a movable joint; the ball and socket.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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, spheroid joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, articulatio spheroidea]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. enarthroses) Anat. a ball-and-socket joint. Etymology: Gk f. enarthros jointed (as EN-(2), arthron joint)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Enarthrosis En`ar*thro"sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? jointed; ? in + ? joint.] (Anat.) A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Anat.) Ball-and-socket joint.