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Definition of Articulary

1. Adjective. Relating to or affecting the joints of the body. "Articular disease"

Medical Definition of Articulary

1. A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Articulary

Literary usage of Articulary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The piece of the mandible which articulates with the quadrate is the articulary bone (35), distinctly part of Meckel's cartilage ; it sends upwards a ..."

2. Growth During School Age: Its Application to Education by Paul Godin (1920)
"Elbow, humero-radial articulary space, the greatest ... breadth is 23 mm. on an average above the articulary space. u Knee, ..."

3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"No crocodile has anything of the kind. That of the dolphin is much smaller and farther back. In the iguana it is more pointed. The articulary facet is ..."

4. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1903)
"Tendon of As to inner surface of articulary. /.a/a. Tendon of A\ to inner surface of lachrymal. ta^mx. Tendon of A3 to inner anterior end of maxillary. tfp. ..."

5. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"... Dr. Giinther says (/. cp 525), " A small movable piece of cartilage is found inside of the articulary *• PZS 1874, pi. xxix. figs. I and 2. ..."

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