Usually means: Enables rotational movement in limbs.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word ball and socket joint:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. ball-and-socket joint: Merriam-Webster
  2. ball-and-socket joint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ball-and-socket joint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ball-and-socket joint, ball-and-socket joint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ball-and-socket joint: Vocabulary.com
  6. ball and socket joint: Wordnik
  7. ball-and-socket joint, ball and socket joint: Wiktionary
  8. ball-and-socket joint: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ball and socket joint, ball-and-socket joint, ball and socket joint: Dictionary.com
  10. Ball-and-socket joint, Ball and socket joint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ball-and-socket joint: Rhymezone
  12. ball-and-socket joint, ball and socket joint: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ball-and-socket joint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Ball and socket joint, ball-and-socket joint: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ball-and-socket joint: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ball and socket joint, ball-and-socket joint: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ball-and-socket joint: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Ball-and-socket joint: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. Ball and socket joint, ball-and-socket joint: Medical dictionary
  6. Ball-and-socket joint: Drug Medical Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Ball and socket joint)

noun:  Alternative form of ball-and-socket joint [A joint in which one segment has a rounded end and the next segment has a bowl-shaped end, with the rounded end being fitted into the bowl shape, allowing the first segment to move around an indefinite number of axes which have one common center. Examples include the human shoulder joint and the balljoints of some automotive suspensions.]

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