condyle

Updated: May 28, 2025

Thus the ulna is complete throughout, and its shaft is not a mere rudiment, fused into one bone with the radius. There are three toes, one large in the middle and one small on each side. The femur is quite like that of a horse, and has the characteristic fossa above the external condyle.

Thomas Henry Huxley - Critiques and Addresses

Here the condyle is flattened, and the fossa of the temporal bone very shallow, presenting to the condyle an almost flat surface, so that the jawbone is enabled to revolve with ease for the better mastication of the pellets of grass. This conformation is also to be seen in the pachydermata who feed upon vegetables. The canines only require a separate notice.

Jean Macé - The History of a Mouthful of Bread : And its effect on the organization of men and animals

Each finger-joint has its name, the lowest being called the procondyle, the middle the condyle, and the upper the metacondyle.

W. G. (William George) Waters - Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study

In short, the shape and structure of the teeth regulate the forms of the condyle, of the shoulder-blade, and of the claws, in the same manner as the equation of a curve regulates all its other properties; and as in regard to any particular curve all its properties may be ascertained by assuming each separate property as the foundation of a particular equation, in the same manner a claw, a shoulder-blade, a condyle, a leg or arm bone, or any other bone separately considered, enables us to discover the description of teeth to which they have belonged; and so also reciprocally we may determine the forms of the other bones from the teeth.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science — Volume 4

The nerve slips forward, and may be felt lying on the medial aspect of the condyle. It may retain this position, or it may slip backwards and forwards with the movements of the arm. The symptoms at the time of the displacement are some disability at the elbow, and pain and tingling along the nerve, which are exaggerated by movement and by pressure.

Alexander Miles - Manual of Surgery Volume First: : General Surgery. Sixth Edition.

You must never attempt to force too large an article into your mouth at once an apple, for instance the efforts you would then be obliged to make might easily cause the condyle to slip out of its little cavity, where its hold is but slight, and to get under the temporal bone; and there you would be with your mouth wide open until the doctor arrived.

Jean Macé - The History of a Mouthful of Bread : And its effect on the organization of men and animals