ball and socket joint

allows rotational movement but prevents transtional movement to the member attached to it
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ball and socket joint

Summary

ball and socket joint ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (127 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ball and socket joint's GND ID is recorded as 4607522-7[2].
  • ball and socket joint's subclass of is recorded as synovial joint[3].
  • ball and socket joint's subclass of is recorded as functional joint[4].
  • ball and socket joint's part of is recorded as diarthrosis[5].
  • ball and socket joint's Commons category is recorded as Spherical joints[6].
  • ball and socket joint's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09nvgy[7].
  • ball and socket joint's Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID is recorded as A03.0.00.050[8].
  • ball and socket joint's described by source is recorded as Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)[9].
  • ball and socket joint's Foundational Model of Anatomy ID is recorded as 75301[10].
  • ball and socket joint's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/ball-and-socket-goiny[11].
  • ball and socket joint's Quora topic ID is recorded as Ball-and-Socket-Joint[12].
  • ball and socket joint's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as ball-and-socket-joints[13].
  • ball and socket joint's TA98 Latin term is recorded as articulatio spheroidea[14].
  • ball and socket joint's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 022859[15].
  • ball and socket joint's Store medisinske leksikon ID is recorded as enartrose[16].
  • ball and socket joint's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780700022[17].
  • ball and socket joint's TA2 ID is recorded as 1562[18].
  • ball and socket joint's KBpedia ID is recorded as BallAndSocketJoint[19].
  • ball and socket joint's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 05603286-n[20].
  • ball and socket joint's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/ball-and-socket-joint[21].
  • ball and socket joint's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 99776[22].

Why It Matters

ball and socket joint ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (127 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . bartleby.com. Retrieved . bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . unifr.ch. unifr.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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