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Articular

Articular \Ar*tic"u*lar\, a. [L. articularis: cf. F. articulaire. See Article, n.] Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.

Articular

Articular \Ar*tic"u*lar\, Articulary \Ar*tic"u*la*ry\, n. (Anat.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
articular

from Latin articularis "pertaining to the joints," from articulus (see articulate (v.)).

Wiktionary
articular

a. (context anatomy English) Of, at, or relating to the joints of the body.

WordNet
articular

adj. relating to or affecting the joints of the body; "the articular surfaces of bones"; "articular disease" [syn: articulary]

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Usage examples of "articular".

Acute articular rheumatism implies an affection of the articulations or joints.

Acute articular rheumatism is always accompanied with more or less fever.

Sub-acute articular rheumatism is not always chronic, and may disappear in a shorter time than in the acute form.

Chronic articular rheumatism is not generally fatal, but there is danger of permanent deformities.

If the bones be diseased, their articular extremities may be distended and fatty matter deposited in them.

This layered imaging technique, far more precise than old-fashioned X-raying, allowed one to determine the age of the victim to the decade, judging by the hardening in the articular cartilage and in the blood vessels, since medicine, at the time these people lived, had not yet learned how to halt the changes termed sclerosis.

I stared at it intently, appalled by the smooth glistening articular surfaces of the tibio-tarsal joint.

The articular and quadrate bones of her jaw were crushed, with additional comprehensive damage to the structure of the dentary plate.

Down its crowded corridors swarms a vast gaudy heterogeny of galactic creatures, natives of the worlds of Capella, Arcturus, Altair, Canopus, Polaris, Antares - beings both intelligent and articular, methane-breathing or nitrogen-breathing or argon-breathing, spiny-skinned or skinless, many-armed or many-headed or altogether incorporeal, each a product of a distant and distinctly unique and alien cultural heritage.

A case of this nature is described, the patient being a raftsman, aged seventeen, who suffered with inflammatory symptoms of the right great toe, which were followed in the next ten years by progressive involvement of all the joints of the extremities, and of the vertebrae and temporo-maxillary articulations, with accompanying signs of acute articular rheumatism.

Articular rheumatism, in the subacute or chronic form, is frequently observed in medical practice.

The upper three-quarters of the anterior articular surface of the calcis is not in contact with the cuboid, the latter being depressed obliquely forward and downward, the lower portion of the posterior facet on the cuboid articulating with a new surface on the under portion of the bone.

If the bones be diseased, their articular extremities may be distended and fatty matter deposited in them.

In addition to this the articular surfaces are quite smooth and dense, having no Haversian canals, and they are covered with a layer of cartilage.

A PM performed on their home world gave the cause of death as extreme calcification of the articular cartilage in practically every joint in the body, but had been unable to shed any light on the cause of death.