ginglymus Anat.
(ˈgɪŋ-, ˈdʒɪŋglɪməs)
Also 7 gynglimos.
[mod.L. ginglymus, a. Gr. γίγγλυµος hinge.]
‘A diarthrodial joint having some likeness to a hinge, in that its motion is only in two directions, as the elbow-joint’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885). angular, lateral ginglymus (see quot. 1831).
| 1657 Physical Dict., Gynglimos, is a joyning of a bone when the same bone receiveth another, and is received by another. 1721–1800 in Bailey. 1784 André in Phil. Trans. LXXIV. 276 A complete joint is formed, of that kind called by anatomists ginglymus, that is, where the projecting parts of one bone are received by corresponding cavities in the other. 1802 Paley Nat. Theol. viii. (ed. 2) 121 The ginglymus, or hinge-joint, does not..admit of a ligament of the same kind with that of the ball and socket joint. 1831 R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 169 Angular Ginglymus, or Hinge, of which the motions are commonly reduced to flexion and extension..Lateral Ginglymus, or Rotatory Diarthrosis, in which rotation is the only possible motion, and which is double, when a bone turns on another by two given points. |
| attrib. 1802 Paley Nat. Theol. viii. (ed. 2) 122 Another no less important joint, and that also of the ginglymus sort, is the ankle. 1840 G. Ellis Anat. 716 The knee, the largest and most complex ginglymus joint in the body. |