Characterized by or relating to structures that resemble hinge joints in their form or movement.
From 'ginglymoid' + '-al' suffix. The addition of '-al' to 'ginglymoid' creates an adjective meaning 'having the quality of resembling a hinge joint.'
In medical language, you can keep adding suffixes like stacking modifiers—'ginglymoidal' is 'ginglymoid' plus '-al,' showing how doctors build increasingly specific descriptors!
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