cotyloid joint

Thesaurus

Noun

1.cotyloid joint - a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bonearticulatio spheroidea, ball-and-socket joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, spheroid jointarticulatio synovialis, diarthrosis, synovial joint - a joint so articulated as to move freelyarticulatio humeri, shoulder joint, shoulder - a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapulaarticulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint, hip - the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum