meniscoid

English

Etymology

From meniscus +‎ -oid.

Adjective

meniscoid (comparative more meniscoid, superlative most meniscoid)

  1. Concavo-convex, like a meniscus.

Noun

meniscoid (plural meniscoids)

  1. A synovial fold (fold made of synovial membrane); plica.
    • 2000, Satoshi Inami, Koji Kaneoka, Naoyuki Ochiai, “Anatomy of the Cervical Facet Joints Meniscoids”, in Narayan Yoganandan, Frank A. Pintar, editor, Frontiers in Whiplash Trauma: Clinical and Biomechanical, page 72:
      Biomechanical studies have suggested facet impingement of the meniscoid (synovial fold) as a whiplash injury mechansim.

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