Term: pivot joint: a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: jugale: the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: special interest: an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: doppelganger: a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: pheochromocytoma: a vascular tumor of the adrenal gland; hypersecretion of epinephrine results in intermittent or sustained hypertension
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: beginning: the time at which something is supposed to begin
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: jumping orchid: orchid having both male and female flowers in the same raceme; when a sensitive projection at the base of the column of the male flower is touched the pollen is suddenly ejected
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: potter's field: a cemetery for unknown or indigent people
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: muntiacus: muntjacs
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: lace fern: small tufted fern of northwestern America
Broader: joint: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Unrelated: snailfish: small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish