Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pivot_joint

1 sense of pivot joint

Sense 1
pivot joint, rotary joint, rotatory joint, articulatio trochoidea -- (a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation; "the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint")
       => synovial joint, articulatio synovialis, diarthrosis -- (a joint so articulated as to move freely)