meniscoid

English

Etymology

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.

Anagrams

• miscoined