condyle

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒndɪl/, /ˈkɒndaɪl/

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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.

• condylo-

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dil/

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condyle m (plural condyles)

1. condyle

• “condyle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

condyle

1. vocative singular of condylus