Anat. Also condyl. [prob. a. F. condyle (in Paré 16th c.), ad. L. condyl-us, a. Gr. κόνδυλος a knuckle. (The superfluous final e appears to be from French.)]
† 1. A blow given with the clenched fist. Obs.
1644. Bulwer, Chirol., 180. The stroake inflicted with the Hand thus composed, hath from antiquity retained the name of Condyl.
2. A rounded process at the end of a bone serving to form an articulation with another bone; esp. applied to the two protuberances of the occipital bone which articulate with the atlas (occipital condyles).
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., Wks. 237. The roote of the inner condyle of the thigh.
1758. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 36. The Neck of the Condyll of the Jaw-bone.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., 127. Between the condyls.
1834. Sir C. Bell, Hand, 85. The radius … has a depression with a polished surface for revolving on the condyle of the humerus.
1872. Huxley, Physiol., VII. 170. The two convex occipital condyles of the skull.
3. Applied to the rounded ends of the tibia, and similar parts in the jointed members of arthropoda.
