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ball-and-socket joint
 
Noun ball-and-socket joint has 2 senses
  1. ball-and-socket joint, spheroid joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, articulatio spheroidea - a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone
    --1 is a kind of synovial joint, articulatio synovialis, diarthrosis
    --1 has particulars:
     shoulder, shoulder joint, articulatio humeri; hip, hip joint, coxa, articulatio coxae
  2. ball-and-socket joint - a joint that can rotate within a socket
    --2 is a kind of     joint
    --2 has part: socket
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