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English
Etymology
From meniscus + -oid.
Adjective
meniscoid (comparative more meniscoid, superlative most meniscoid)
- Concavo-convex, like a meniscus.
Noun
meniscoid (plural meniscoids)
- 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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