Sentence examples for hinge joint from inspiring English sources
noun
A type of joint where motion is restricted to one plane as in the knee or elbow.
The ankle is not a simple hinge joint.
Total Knee Replacement The knee is a hinge joint made up of bones, ligaments and tendons and supported by muscles.
Elbow, in human anatomy, hinge joint formed by the meeting of the humerus (bone of the upper arm) and the radius and ulna (bones of the forearm).
Knee, hinge joint that is formed by the meeting of the thigh bone (femur) and the larger bone (tibia) of the lower leg.
But he was growing so fast as a 10-year-old and his knee became sore, so his right leg was placed in a cast for about a month to help strengthen the hinge joint.
The formulation of the equations of motion and the derivation of a hinge joint is presented.
Various types of strong hinge joints, easily contrived by an arthropod, also occur in vertebrates.
Pivot joints are always of the ovoid class; from a functional aspect, they are the ovoid counterparts of hinge joints.
It is light, with a reduced number of bones, and there are hinge joints at several levels that permit slight rotation or movement of one segment upon another.
Hinge joints in vertebrates are often composite, being formed or supported by the incorporation of several small bones, as in the human wrist.
In each case, the jacks "appeared to have failed at the slotted hinge joints which separated under load," the agency said.
