ball-and-socket
Example Sentences
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The vertebrae line up to create a series of ball-and-socket joints running from head to tail.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Those fingers come with a long, skeletal middle digit equipped with a ball-and-socket joint for horrifying dexterity, like the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come beckoning Ebenezer Scrooge to gaze upon his own sordid death.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
The ball-and-socket joint of the shoulder is secured by the four muscles and tendons of the rotator cuff, which can become irritated, torn or overstretched.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
These joints can be described as planar, hinge, pivot, condyloid, saddle, or ball-and-socket joints.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In the ball-and-socket joints--a beautiful contrivance--the rounded head of one bone fits into a socket in the other, as the hip joint and shoulder joint.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
