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Condyle  n.  (Anat.) 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.





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... working of the condyle of the lower jaw vertically and from side to side can be distinctly felt and seen in front of the ear. When the mouth is opened wide, the condyle advances out of the glenoid cavity, and returns to its socket when the mouth is shut. In front of the ear, lies the zygoma, one of the most marked and important landmarks to the touch, and in lean persons to ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell
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... complete throughout, and its shaft is not a mere rudiment, fused into one bone with the radius. There are three toes, one large in the middle and one small on each side. The femur is quite like that of a horse, and has the characteristic fossa above the external condyle. In the British Museum there is a most instructive specimen of the leg-bones, showing that the fibula was represented by the external malleolus and by a flat tongue of bone, which extends up from it on the outer side of the tibia, and is closely ankylosed with the latter bone.[1] The hind ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley
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Words linked to "Condyle" :   outgrowth, bone, appendage, lateral condyle, condylar, condyloid process, medial condyle, condylar process, os


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