GIN'GLYMUS, noun [Gr.] In anatomy, a species of articulation resembling a hinge. That species of articulation in which each bone partly receives and is partly received by the other, so as to admit only of flexion and extension, is called angular ginglymus
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.