The individual portions of which the limbs are made up are called segments, and the articulations between them, joints.
There appear to be about 7 articulations in the palpus itself, above the basal joint, marked by swellings upon its tubular stem, which is 1 line in diameter.
These clearly indicate that the tendency during the first half of the fifteenth century was to increase the number of joints or articulations in every part of the armour.
Serpents and Crocodiles have the articulationssimilarly vertical, but in both the form of the articulation is a circle.
Examples of gliding joints are found in the articulationsbetween the bones of the wrist and those of the ankle.
Most of the immovable articulations are found in the skull.
The wavy lines formed by articulationsof this kind are called sutures (Fig.
Articulations are classed with reference to their freedom of motion, as movable, slightly movable, and immovable articulations.
The number of articulations or pieces that form the integument and its members in these animals, varies greatly in different tribes, genera, &c.
The articulations of insects may be considered as solid cases which envelop the muscles, and the thickness of these cases appears to decrease in a singular manner according to the size of the creature.
It also exudes from thearticulations of its abdomen a yellow mucilaginous liquid, of a pungent and disagreeable odour.
The articulations may also be preserved perfectly supple, by keeping them immersed in a mixture of equal parts of olive oil and essence of turpentine.
I have prepared, in this manner, the articulations of the shoulder, of the knee, of the fingers, and of the vertebral column.
Smooth, even fingers, on the contrary, with a regular outline and articulations but slightly prominent, denote that the nervous system is more developed than the bony and muscular, and that the member is endowed with fine sensibility.
Both the navicular and coronary articulations were open.
This, of course, is restricted to articulations of the locomotory apparatus.
Wounds invading the tissues adjacent to joints, when these wounds are of considerable extent, cause inflammation of such articulations by contiguous extension of inflammation.
For a language to be spoken by three different nations it is convenient to admit only such articulations as are common to the three languages.
The great toes are straight, no articulations being shown.
Observe how frankly the breadth of Sepa's shoulders is insisted upon, how clearly the collar-bones and the articulations of the knees are marked.
The bones of a child, whose habits require greater bodily pliability, are more numerous than those of an adult, several of the articulations becoming ossified between infancy and maturity.
The theory that they advanced was that the mysterious noises were produced by some one of the articulations of the body.
Ligaments of the First and Second Interphalangeal Articulations (Lateral View).
Ligaments of the First and Second Interphalangeal Articulations (viewed from Behind).
The foot is carried forward with all the phalangeal articulations flexed, and in many cases the limb is unable to take weight at all.
The vertebral articulations and the digital articulations of the feet and hands are commonly affected.
The instinctive articulations of Laura Bridgman (who was blind as well as deaf) are in this connection even still more conclusive (see ibid.
For fundamental metaphor of this kind obviously brings us within seeing distance of the time when the audible signs of articulations were born of the visible signs of gesture and grimace.
By degrees certain natural articulationsbecame associated with certain ideas; then new names were suggested by some fancied analogy to objects already named.
Most of their articulations are accompanied by a strong nasal aspiration, with strenuous efforts of the throat; particularly in producing the sound of a double r, which is heavy and hard.
Grace is closely united to gesture; the manifold play of the articulations which constitutes strength, also constitutes grace.
Inflection is the life of speech; the mind lies in the articulative values, in the distribution of thesearticulations and their progressions.
Dynamic wealth depends upon the number of articulations brought into play; the fewer articulations an actor uses, the more closely he approaches the puppet.
He afterwards[231] claimed that the articulations of the cartilaginous fin-rays of the trout (Salmo fontinalis) are due to the mechanical strains experienced by the rays in use as motors of the body of the fish in the water.
He was slight and small, and he seemed to have no bones--nothing but articulations that functioned with equal ease in all possible directions.
On the other hand, it may happen that the articulations are too stiff, and consequently render many movements difficult, especially if through an anomalous development of the outer coating of the bone, it results in congenital ankylosis.
In fact, a man on foot, resting his weight upon articulations that are elastic, and therefore compressible, is a little shorter than when he is recumbent.
This amazing motion is performed by means of the elasticity of their feet, the articulations of which are so many springs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "articulations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
