Articulation

(ar-tik-u-la' -shun). I. A joint or arthrosis; 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 suture, as in the bones of the skull; Diarthroses, or movable joints, subdivided into the arthrodia, or gliding joints, the ginglymns, or hinge-like, the enarthroses, or ball-and-socket joints; Ampkiarthroses, or those of a mixed type. 2. The of spoken speech. A. of Artificial Teeth, the adjustment and arrangement of one or more artificial teeth, so that it, or they, when placed in the mouth, shall sustain the same relationship to the organs with which they antagonize, when the jaws are closed, as the natural teeth did previous to their lo . A., Confluent, the clipping of words, or running together of syllables a symptom of certain cerebral diseases. A. of Models. See Models for Artificial Teeth, Antagonizing. A. Positions. See Consonants . A. of the Teeth. See Teeth, Articulation of.