Articulation

(ar-tik-u-la’-shun) \articulus, a joint]. I. A joint; a connection between two or more bones, whether allowing movement between them or not. The articulations are divided into: (i) Synarthroses, immovable, subdivided into schindyleses, or grooved joints, gomphoses, in sockets, as the teeth, and suturce, as in the bones of the skull; (2) Diarthroses, or movable joints, subdivided into the arthrodia, or gliding joints, the ginglymus, or hinge-like, the enarthroses, or ball and-socket joints; (3) Amphiarlhroses, or those of a mixed type. 2. The enunciation of spoken speech. Articulo mort is, In (ar-tik’-u-lo-mor’ ’-tis) [L.]. At the moment of death. In the act of dying. 91