condyle

English

Etymology

From French condyle, from Latin condylus, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒndɪl/, /ˈkɒndaɪl/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

condyle (plural condyles)

  1. (anatomy) A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
    • 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles:
      Primitively the exoccipitals took but little part in the formation of the occipital condyle, but in many later reptiles they form a large part, as in the Chelonia (Fig. 31 b), or even the whole, as in the Amphisbaenia (Fig. 56 b); or, by the recession of the basioccipital, the double condyles of the Cynodontia and mammals.
    • 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, Norton, published 2005, page 1717:
      “It's the upper condyle of a human femur,” said I.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin condylus, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

condyle m (plural condyles)

  1. condyle

Further reading

Latin

Noun

condyle

  1. vocative singular of condylus
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